Adam le Fondre levelled with 10 minutes to go as Sydney claimed a point in the season opener at Coopers Stadium.

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"I think once we got the goal we looked stronger in the second half," Corica told Fox Sports.

"Really we were unlucky not to win that in the end."

Corica added: "We did very well in the first half. We stuck to our task."

"They had a gameplan that they went very long and early. When we started to press up on them they went long and tried to get in behind us.

"It was all about winning the second ball. We got stuck in, they got stuck in.

"They tried to press us as well, because they knew we were trying to play out."

Scott Galloway's 45th minute goal splits the sides at half-time but the Sydney boss insisted his side lifted in the second half.

"I think second half we looked better," he said.

"We outran them the second half, we looked stronger and made more forward runs.

"Towards the end it was unlucky we didn't get that second goal."

Sydney host rivals Western Sydney at the SCG on Saturday night in Round Two.

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