Josh Brillante 7 – 

An excellent game tonight, particularly in possession but it wasn’t Sydney’s best in defensive midfield. Troisi found more space than he has lately and the pace with which Victory attacked through the middle caused Sydney a lot of problems.

Brandon O’Neill 6.5 – 

Mirror image performance with his midfield partner tonight. Victory managed to play past them a few too many times but he did well on the ball and got further forward than usual.

Adrian Mierzejewski 6.5 – 

Victory did well to keep him quiet tonight. He was swarmed whenever he had the ball. His skills were up to the challenge and he wriggled out of the press more often than not. No goals or assists!

Milos Ninkovic 6 – 

He was involved in setting up the goal but he spent most of the game tracking back and defending. He got a little bored from defending so took a moment out of the game to practice some juggling. He’s done this a few times this season.

Alex Brosque 6.5 – 

Should have had an assist that included an amazing off the ball run but Thomas denied Ninkovic. A few times tonight he turned on the pace and made a nuisance of himself. Sydney will need that on Tuesday night.

Bobo 8 – 

Great decision to choose longer stops on his boots, they got him Sydney’s first goal. Goals like those always fall for inform strikers and the A League has never seen a more inform striker.

SUBS

Paulo Retre 5 – 

After he came on, Barbarouses found a lot more space, the Victory wingers soon switched and Retre dealt with George a lot better.

Matt Simon 5 – 

Did what Matt Simon does.

Ben Warland 5.5 –

Dealt with a lot of Victory pressure as soon as he stepped onto the pitch. Victory didn’t score so job done.