Glory lead the Kingz 4-1 at half time !!!

[King Italy]

Glory have just travelled all that way and are killing the Kingz 4-1 at half time.

Mori has a hat-trick...

Mori 6, 22, 42
Maloney 43

[King Italy]

5-2 after 70 mins :)

Despotovski 65

[King Italy]

6-2 ;)

Despotovski 68

[King Italy]

The Glory kill the Kingz 7-2 after a long flight to Auckland. A stunning victory:


A first-half Damian Mori hat-trick has spearheaded ladder leaders Perth Glory to a 7-2 demolition of the Football Kings in Auckland, the home side’s heaviest-ever loss.

Although the Glory were far more polished than their opponents, the Kingz weren’t helped by some harsh refereeing that saw substitute George Goutzioulis sent off early in the second half.

Mori scored his first goal after just six minutes when he ran onto a Bobby Despotovski through ball, before the Glory made the most of an injury to Kingz captain Sean Douglas in scoring their second goal 20 minutes later.

Matt Horsley found plenty of space down the right wing when Douglas pulled up with a hamstring injury, crossing the ball in to where Brad Maloney flicked it on for Mori to make it two.

Andy Vlahos pulled one back for the home side in the 37th minute, Vlahos making the most of a fortunate free kick after Paul Urlovic took a dramatic dive.

But Mori then returned the favour for Maloney five minutes later, setting Maloney up to restore Perth’s lead, and the Glory scorer in the process collided with Kingz defender Vinko Buljubasic, who was forced off injured.

Perth made the most of the numerical advantage a minute later when Despotovski put Mori in for a second time with a deft flick, Mori making it three goals and giving the Glory a commanding 4-1 lead at half-time.

Just after the interval the Kings pulled a goal back when Urlovic met a splendid cross from Vlahos to score, but the home side were stunned moments later when Goutziolis was given his marching orders for a two-footed challenge on Perth's Michael Garcia.

Ten minutes after that Despotovski made sure of the three points when he scored from a penalty that resulted from Kingz keeper Michael Theoklitos’ challenge on Perth's Edgar Aldrighi.

Despotovski then doubled up to make it 6-2, running onto a long pass from Maloney before putting the ball into an empty Kingz net, and Glory sub Alistair Edwards completed the thrashing after excellent lead-up work from Mori.

"We did get a little sloppy at times but it was nice to come over here and win,” Perth coach Mich D'Avary said after his team’s first ever win in NZ.

"I will take full responsibility for that performance,” losing manager Mike Petersen said. "We played the yardstick tonight and we weren't good enough ... we've seen the best team in Australasia out there tonight and they walloped us."

[tigerTUFF]

3rd time lucky for the glory this year.

there is only one side in the NSL currently and thats perth, no-one has shown me they want to challenge yet, amitedly its still early :D, but theres a large gulf......

Sth Melbourne will come good and the olympic sharks will be there at the end even though they arent showing too much yet. Sth melbourne have some real quality youngters at the moment, watch out for them

[pLatinum_boY]

you do all realise that game was fixed?
i mean....the kingz would never loose by that much to perth...:D...clearly they mucked around.

[R9ronaldo]

perth will defernatly win the league