An extended-range piledriver from Catherine Zimmerman has secured Melbourne Victory a 2-2 draw with Adelaide United within the A-League Ladies’s first Satisfaction Cup that each one however ended the Reds’ finals hopes.
Positioned in an early deficit by Melina Ayres’ seventh-minute opener, the guests rallied and led at halftime due to targets from Meisha Westland and Chelsie Dawber, all of the whereas repulsing quite a few Victory assaults.
However with stress mounting at AAMI Park, Zimmerman discovered area within the 71st minute and launched an effort from greater than 30 yards out of objective that soared over the top of goalkeeper Annalee Grove and into the highest nook.
Trying to rally once more however this time unable to discover a response, the guests stay in ninth with the draw and are actually 9 factors again of the playoff locations with 5 video games remaining of their season.
Including additional problem, fifth-placed Canberra and sixth-placed Perth retain video games in hand.
Victory, in the meantime, maintains a three-point hole on the aspect from the nation’s capital, albeit having performed one recreation extra.
That they had greater than sufficient probabilities to place the Reds away on Sunday however time and time once more did not convert.
Zimmerman, Elise Kellond-Knight, Alana Murphy, Beattie Goad and Ayres all spurned first-half probabilities after the latter despatched in a ball that Annalee Grove put into her personal internet.
Between these, the Reds equalized within the 17th when Westland obtained a Mindy Barbieri cutback after which led within the 27th when Victory did not clear a nook and it fell to Dawber for a close-range end.
Zimmerman had the ball behind the web twice early within the second half solely to be denied by the offside flag earlier than she fired from vary.
Either side pressed with desperation to discover a winner however could not break by means of.
