There’s nothing quite like the distance derby. Wellington treated it like a do-or-die, but Perth looked like they’d jogged across the Nullarbor.
PERTH GLORY
Liam Reddy - 4
He didn’t look interested. Poor distribution all match, and couldn’t save anything that wasn’t from range.
Scott Neville - 5
The attackers didn’t have to work for goals in this one, they just waited for the defence to throw them opportunities.
Neville obliged by chucking in in a horrible who-to, lofting a ball cross-goal straight to Krishna for Wellington’s second.
Ended up conceding a handball penalty that he could do nothing about, but that doesn’t excuse him from a rubbish rating.
Xavi Torres - 4
Perth’s defenders are better strikers than they are centre-backs. That pretty much sums it all up.
Scored a thumping effort – a brilliant top corner strike - from an indirect free kick. But he doesn’t know what he’s doing defensively. He’s a liability.
Shane Lowry - 6
Kenny Lowe’s a character, and a good attacking coach, but it’s unforgivable that Lowry – a former Championship stalwart – looks a shadow defensively of his former self in the A-League.
He still works hard, and he knows how to take up good positions at both ends - ripping header to score Perth’s second.
But he hasn’t formed a confident combination with Grant, Andreu and co, which has to go down to the coach.
Alex Grant - 4
He had a big task controlling Roy Krishna, and had a predictably mixed bag of results. Then in the second half he was useless, caught out of position, looked lost defensively. Shambolic.
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