CRAIG Moore returned to the Queensland Roar side less than a fortnight after cancer surgery and promptly helped his team to a 4-1 home win over Perth Glory at Suncorp Stadium.

Queensland were finally able to celebrate a victory on their own patch after goals from Sergio van Dijk, Tahj Minniecon, Charlie Miller and Mitch Nichols.
Jamie Harnwell netted for Glory but it wasn't enough to end Glory's miserable run of results on the road.
While Moore bravely skippered his side less than a fortnight after surgery for testicular cancer, Miller produced a 56th-minute goal that would have lit up any match around the world - putting the Roar three goals up and all but sealing the result.
There seemed little immediate danger when Michael Zullo swung the ball in from the left-hand side, but Miller soon changed that with an unstoppable right-foot volley that beat a stunned Tando Velaphi in the Perth goal.
Perth hit back within two minutes, as Nikita Rukavytsya surged past Luke De Vere in the box and crossed for Jamie Harnwell to score at the far post.
But Roar had already stolen a winning break, thanks to Miller's brilliance and a two-goal flourish late in the first half.
Youngster Mitch Nicholls put the icing on the cake in the 82nd minute, expertly lobbing the unfortunate Velaphi for his first A-League goal.
Earlier, the Roar turned the game on its head by scoring twice in first-half stoppage time - after Perth had dominated much of the first 45 minutes.
The match had looked likely to be scoreless at half-time, before the whippet-quick Tahj Minniecon burst into the box and was brought down by Nikolai Topor-Stanley.
Referee Peter Green had no hesitation pointing to the spot and Sergio van Dijk coolly stepped up to slot the penalty in the 46th minute, much to the home crowd's relief.
The Roar fans again had a goal to celebrate two minutes later as well and van Dijk and Minniecon were once more involved.
This time the Dutchman cleverly turned his man on the left-hand side of the area and his cross-cum-shot was tapped in by Minniecon at the far post.
The 2-0 half-time scoreline in no way reflected some of the promising attacking moves produced by the Glory in the opening half, with Harnwell and Adrian Trindidad both coming close to scoring.
Harnwell had the Roar goal at his mercy in the seventh minute, but Adriano Pellegrino's well-directed cross skidded off the turf, hit the Glory striker in the thigh and then ballooned over the bar.
Trinidad went even closer in the 38th minute, as Liam Reddy produced a stunning save to deny the Argentinean.
Teed up by Wayne Shroj, Trinidad struck his first-time shot sweetly only to see a full-stretch Reddy parry it just wide of the right hand-post.

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