Central Coast Mariners 3-3 Sydney FC

Adding a further six goals to the round two total, the Y-League continued to deliver the goods on Saturday morning as the Mariners and Sydney FC played out a highly entertaining draw at Pluim Park.

The Harboursiders struck first in the contest after Jordi Swibel turned in a cross into the Mariners penalty area in the tenth minute but the hosts answered back on the 20-minute mark when Alou Kuol turned in a loose ball to restore parity.

After coming agonisingly close to taking a lead when scholarship player John Roberts had an effort cannon off the bar in the 27th minute, the Mariners were able to finally get themselves ahead in the 35th when Kuol secured a brace when he turned in a cutback from Mario Shabow.

Nonetheless, a second-half rally from the Sky Blues saw them roar back and take the lead with just seven minutes remaining after Young Socceroo Marco Tilio fired home two penalties.

The Mariners, though, fought back to be awarded a spot-kick of their own in the 90th minute when Roberts was brought down in the penalty area – only for Shabow to see his spotkick saved.

Yet when Joran Smylie was brought down inside the Sydney penalty area two minutes later, a rare double chance at a do-over from the spot was afforded to the Mariners and Roberts made no mistake with it – firing home to secure a point.

Western Sydney Wanderers 2-0 Canberra United

Last year’s defeated grand finalists, the Wanderers had a bye for week one of the Y-League season but were quick to make up for lost time when Canberra United visited Marconi Stadium.

Bursting down the flank in just the 8th minute of play, Young Socceroo Jarrod Carluccio whipped a ball into the Canberra penalty area that Mathieu Cordier turned in before Wanderers fans' cult-hero Kosta Grozos made it 2-0 in the 12th when he fired an effort from outside the penalty area into the bottom corner of the net.

Never truly challenged, coach Arthur Diles’s side were then able to cruise to their opening win of the season.

Adelaide United 0-1 Melbourne Victory

Adelaide United may have got the win over Victory in the A-League’s version of the Original Rivalry, but Victory were able to regain some form of vengeance in the youth iteration the next day (ok, not a lot).

Adelaide’s Lachlan Brook almost set up the opener in the 17th minute when he slid a pass through Victory defensive line for Jai King-Byrne only for the resulting shot to be saved by Matthew Sutton. Brook pounced looking for fire home the rebound only to have the resulting shot blocked.

Young Socceroos' Brook then had a shot bounce just wide in the 21st minute.

However the Reds were unable to capitalise on their momentum in the face of a resolute Victory defence and in the 75th minute were made to pay when second-half substitute Nishan Velupillay went on a winding run through the Adelaide defence and fired home to win the game for the visitors.