Paulo Retre - 7.5

Showed us some delightful party tricks today. He was involved in most of Sydney’s best plays. He’s having an excellent season so far.

Brandon O’Neill - 6

If the rumours of overseas interest are true it’ll be thoroughly deserved. He’s put together a few consistently good seasons now. He was mostly his assured self tonight but he fluffed a couple of passes.

Joshua Brillante - 6

O’Neill’s midfield twin was up against it tonight with Honda and Antonis both in great form but the Sydney defensive midfielder's forced the Victory midfield into possibly it’s quietest game of the season so far.

Milos Ninkovic - 7

So many deft touches in and around the box but his team mates just weren’t quite there. He really is on another level at times.

Alex Brosque - 5.5

Put in a fair bit of hustle and bustle with little reward.

Adam Le Fondre - 6

Tonight was a tale of two strikers, Alf here likes to get in behind while Toivonan at the other end likes to drop. Out of the two players Toivonan looked the more dangerous tonight. But not by much. And as far as danger goes, both were probably about as dangerous as a night out in Melbourne, it’s all about who you talk to.

SUBS:

Charles Lokolingoy - 5

Coaches don’t make subs because they enjoy seeing the neon lights on the ref’s board. At least they shouldn’t. Lokolingoy needed to come on and change the game, that’s why coaches make subs but he didn’t have enough of an impact. He could have with his first touches but he decided to go back and be conservative.

Daniel De Silva - 5

Another player who came on and played a bit too conservatively.

Aaron Calver - 6

He actually had a bit of an impact on the game. He tried to make things happen and the Victory defence struggled with his pace.