Star signing Adam Taggart had a dream begin to his third stint at Perth Glory as he scored twice late on to assist his aspect beat Melbourne Victory 3-1 win at Macedonia Park.
In a recreation stuffed with speaking factors, Taggart scored twice within the ultimate 10 minutes because the Glory prolonged their unbeaten run at house.
Ryan Williams had given Perth a deserved lead, earlier than each groups had been decreased to 10 males after former Glory star Chris Ikonomidis kicked Jack Clisby within the head and the full-back retaliated.
The Victory earned a lifeline when a surprising strike from Roderick Miranda discovered the web, however Taggart got here off the bench in his first recreation again to attain twice from a pair of Jacob Dowse crosses.
Perth moved as much as seventh spot on the ladder with the win and are simply two factors off third place, whereas Melbourne Victory and their array of former Glory favorites stay rooted to the underside.
After a gradual begin, Perth started to say themselves and had a penalty attraction waved away when Williams’ low cross appeared to hit Noah Smith’s arm.
Keegan Jelacic then wasted a gilt-edged likelihood when Williams reduce the ball again to him, however with the objective at his mercy, the younger gun scuffed his shot horribly huge, earlier than Acton denied Johnny Koutroumbis’ bullet of a shot as Glory ratcheted up the stress.
On his return to Perth, Jake Brimmer began brightly and got here shut with a long-range effort, whereas Bruno Fornaroli performed like he had some extent to show however bore the brunt of a wave of Bronx cheers.
However Glory bought the breakthrough when David Williams and Mustafa Amini mixed to search out Williams, who trickled a shot previous Acton from shut vary.
The beforehand nameless Ikonomidis got here to prominence for all of the fallacious causes after half time when Ikonomidis tangled with Clisby on the bottom and picked up him with a boot to the pinnacle, earlier than Clisby responded by pushing him to the bottom and placing him whereas inclined.
Referee Stephen Lucas initially simply despatched off Clisby, however upon discover from the video assistant referee, additionally gave Ikonomidis his marching orders.
Perth had been pegged again with 20 minutes to go when substitute Miranda scored an acrobatic volley from Brimmer’s nook, however Taggart capitalized on some lax marking to move house and re-take the lead.
The striker then nabbed a second when Dowse robbed Acton of the ball, picked up possession and centered for Taggart to bundle house.
Perth Glory 3 (R. Williams 37′ Taggart 80′, 88′)
Prepare dinner; Koutroumbis, Lachman, Beevers; Khelifi (Dowse 65′), Amini, Bodnar (Duncan 61′), Jelacic (Burke-Gilroy 61′), Clisby; R. Williams, D. Williams (Taggart 70′).
Yellow card: Lachman, Jelacic, Prepare dinner.
Pink card: Clisby.
Melbourne Victory 1 (Miranda 70′)
Acton; Geria, Bozinovski (Miranda 60′), Spiranovic, Smith (Kadete 46′); Broxham (Barnett 60′), Brillante; Ikonomidis, Brimmer, Folami (Juric 84′); Fornaroli (Velupillay 74′).
Yellow card: Smith.
Pink card: Ikonomidis.
Referee: Stephen Lucas.
Attendance: 4000 at Macedonia Park
