Melbourne City marquee Ritchie De Laet's long range effort and Bruno Fornaroli's first goal of the season was enough for City to down Wellington Phoenix 2-0 at home. It was a disappointing effort from Wellington with hardly any clear cut chances and their third match without a win.
Thomas Doyle - 4
A through ball to Williams was all Doyle offered going forward in the second half while he was caught out at times when Berengeur found space in the right channel.
Mandi Sosa - 3
Mandi showed no hustle to close down the slow cut-back to De Laet on the edge of the area and is just as culpable for the goal as Fenton.
Mitch Nichols - 3
Wellington could hardly control the ball let alone pass it around which meant Nichols was running the entire match.
Louis Fenton - 4
Fenton didn't clean up the lofted ball in behind for Wales as the winger pulled it back to De Laet for 1-0.
Roy Krishna - 3
Krishna simply couldn't free the feet and even when he had the chance to run Schenkeveld kept up with the pacy Fijian.
Sarpreet Singh - 4
A silly foul pulling back the shirt of Scott Jamieson had him on thin ice for the rest of the game getting a yellow card in the 8th minute. Singh had little impact on Wellington's attacks this evening.
David Williams - 3
Hardly any chances fell the way of Wellington as Williams couldn't put the final piece of the puzzle for a Phoenix counter-attack midway through the first half.
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Max Burgess - 4
Burgess was brought on to spark something for Wellington but it was to no avail.
Michal Kopczynski - N/A
The Polish midfielder made his A-League debut off the bench.
Alex Rufer - N/A
Rufer had little time to make an impact.
Wellington Phoenix
Filip Kurto - 5
Could hardly do anything as De Laet's bullet ripped the back of the net. A brilliant reaction save prevented De Laet from scoring another.
Thomas Doyle - 4
A through ball to Williams was all Doyle offered going forward in the second half while he was caught out at times when Berengeur found space in the right channel.
Andrew Durante - 5
Stopped a certain goal as Florin Berenguer slid a ball across goal but the sliding Durante prevented the Nix from falling two behind.
Steven Taylor - '5
Robust challenges were needed to break up City's monotone play and the Englishman delivered.
Dylan Fox - 4
Hardly inspiring defensive performance from Dylan Fox. The defender looked seriously reluctant to move forward considering Wellington were spending long periods of time on the back foot.
Mandi Sosa - 3
Mandi showed no hustle to close down the slow cut-back to De Laet on the edge of the area and is just as culpable for the goal as Fenton.
Sarpreet Singh - 4
A silly foul pulling back the shirt of Scott Jamieson had him on thin ice for the rest of the game getting a yellow card in the 8th minute. Singh had little impact on Wellington's attacks this evening.
Mitch Nichols - 3
Wellington could hardly control the ball let alone pass it around which meant Nichols was running the entire match.
Louis Fenton - 4
Fenton didn't clean up the lofted ball in behind for Wales as the winger pulled it back to De Laet for 1-0.
David Williams - 3
Hardly any chances fell the way of Wellington as Williams couldn't put the final piece of the puzzle for a Phoenix counter-attack midway through the first half.
Roy Krishna - 3
Krishna simply couldn't free the feet and even when he had the chance to run Schenkeveld kept up with the pacy Fijian.
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Max Burgess - 4
Burgess was brought on to spark something for Wellington but it was to no avail.
Michal Kopczynski - N/A
The Polish midfielder made his A-League debut off the bench.
Alex Rufer - N/A
Rufer had little time to make an impact.
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