Glory came away from Wellington Phoenix with a point from a 1-1 draw on Sunday afternoon and the coach wasn't too unhappy, despite conceding a late equaliser.

Wellington, staring down the barrel of their first loss in 12 games at Westpac Stadium, managed to find the equaliser through danger man Paul Ifill with eight minutes remaining.

"Certainly I think we had enough chances to win the game, we played well and it was a credit to the boys in the way they performed," Mitchell said.

"Of course we were disappointed to concede a goal but Wellington has their tails up of late and has scored a lot of goals here in the past few games so I was pleased to see the way we repelled them.

"We've hit the bar and had a couple of good chances that we could have capitalised on.  We held firm at the back and didn't make the silly mistakes that have cost us recently so from that point of view it was a step in the right direction."

The result ending Perth's three game slide and ensured they remain in finals contention at the half way point of the season.

"The effort the boys put in today and the way we went about the game was great and it showed to me that we'll make the six," Mitchell said.

Srhoj's goal the icing on the cake for the central midfielder who worked hard throughout the game to set-up plenty of Perth's attacking forays.  His curling 25 metre effort gave the keeper no hope as it slammed into the top corner.

"We've practised plenty of those at training and it certainly was nice to see one come off," Mitchell said of Srhoj's free kick.

 "Wayne is a talented player and can produce some special things on the pitch and that was certainly one of them."

Perth received strong contributions across the park including in central defence where Andy Todd and Chris Coyne were particularly solid.  Todd not only doing his bit at the back but also finding his way forward to pinch hit up in attack.

While Perth gave as good as they got, the home side were in a menacing mood in front of goal and Mitchell paid credit to the defensive effort of his side to keep the Phoenix at bay.

"They threw a lot at us, particularly in the final 15 minutes.  They managed to get a goal back and then kept on pushing forward.  I thought we did very well to keep them out towards the end," he said.

"It's a hard place to come.  There is a five hour time difference (between Perth and Wellington) and it's not easy to adjust.  So to perform as well as we did, for as long as we did, was good.

"I think if we had conceded again it wouldn't have been the right result after the way we went about it today.

"There were a lot of things to like about our performance but there are also things we have to continue to work on, that's what we'll do in the next couple of weeks before our next match at home."