Melbourne Victory faced off against Newcastle Jets in Geelong and the Albanian became the A-League's all time leading scorer with his 91st goal, a penalty on 30 minutes.

It might have been a very different story had ground staff not scrambled to find their paint cans shortly before kick-off.

The mad rush occurred when it became apparent the penalty area was considerably smaller than regulation size.

Victory, who play the majority of their games at Etihad Stadium and AAMI Park, were due to host the visitors from New South Wales at Simonds Stadium.

The oval venue, home of AFL powerhouse Geelong, has staged the beautiful game before, including a famous friendly win for Victory over Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid in July 2016.

The City is also a contender for an A-League expansion club.

But it seems the rare appearance of a round-ball fixture in the traditional Aussie rules hotbed caused some confusion among the workers charged with preparing the playing surface, although it was nothing a hasty readjustment could not solve.

Melbourne Victory went on to win the match 4-2.