2010 A-League Grand Final

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2010 A-League Grand Final
Event2009–10 A-League
Melbourne Victory Sydney FC
1 1
Sydney won 4–2 on penalties
Date20 March 2010
VenueEtihad Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Man of the MatchSimon Colosimo, Sydney FC
RefereeStrebre Delovski[1]
Attendance44,560
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The 2010 A-League Grand Final took place at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on 20 March 2010.

It was the final match in the A-League 2009–10 season, and was played between premiers Sydney FC and runners-up Melbourne Victory. Sydney FC won the match 4–2 on penalty shootout after drawing the game 1–1 and became the winners of the 2009–10 Championship in addition to their premiership.[2]

The A-League National Youth League Grand Final was held at Etihad Stadium prior to the main game. After coming 4th in the 2009–10 season, Gold Coast United won the youth title in their inaugural season, coming from a goal down to defeat Perth Glory, 2–1.[3]

Route to the final[edit]

See also: 2009–10 A-League

Match[edit]

Summary[edit]

An early knee injury forced key striker Archie Thompson, who scored 5 goals in the 2007 A-League Grand Final, off the field in the sixteenth minute. He was replaced by Costa Rican Marvin Angulo.

With both teams struggling to break the deadlock, Melbourne were left stunned when Mark Bridge scored a goal in the 63rd minute after a deflected cross. To add to Melbourne's misfortune, it was scored less than a minute after Rodrigo Vargas' headed goal was correctly disallowed by the assistant referee for offside.

Melbourne were able to find an equaliser through Adrian Leijer after Kevin Muscat delivered a set piece. Leijer's late header resulted in some frantic final minutes, but neither team were able to find the breakthrough goal in normal time. Extra time resulted in few opportunities and the game was decided by penalties for the first time in A-League history.

Details[edit]

Melbourne Victory1–1 (a.e.t.)Sydney FC
Leijer 81' Reports[4] Bridge 63'
Penalties
Muscat soccer ball with red X
Brebner soccer ball with check mark
Angulo soccer ball with red X
Broxham soccer ball with check mark		 2–4 soccer ball with check mark Colosimo
soccer ball with red X Cole
soccer ball with check mark Foxe
soccer ball with check mark Kisel
soccer ball with check mark Byun
Attendance: 44,560[5]
Melbourne Victory
Sydney FC
GK 1 Australia Mitchell Langerak
DF 2 Australia Kevin Muscat (c) Yellow card 62'
DF 5 Thailand Surat Sukha downward-facing red arrow 71'
MF 6 Australia Leigh Broxham
MF 8 Scotland Grant Brebner
FW 10 Australia Archie Thompson downward-facing red arrow 16'
DF 12 Australia Rodrigo Vargas
MF 16 Costa Rica Carlos Hernández
FW 21 Australia Robbie Kruse
MF 22 Australia Nick Ward downward-facing red arrow 76'
DF 23 Australia Adrian Leijer 81'
Substitutes:
GK 20 New Zealand Glen Moss
MF 11 Costa Rica Marvin Angulo upward-facing green arrow 16'
DF 17 Australia Matthew Foschini
DF 19 Australia Evan Berger Yellow card 100' upward-facing green arrow 71'
FW 25 Australia Aziz Behich upward-facing green arrow 76'
Manager:
Scotland Ernie Merrick
GK 1 Australia Clint Bolton
DF 2 Australia Sebastian Ryall Yellow card 26'
DF 3 Switzerland Stephan Keller
DF 4 Australia Simon Colosimo Yellow card 51'
MF 6 Slovakia Karol Kisel Yellow card 84'
MF 8 Australia Stuart Musialik downward-facing red arrow 105'
FW 14 Australia Alex Brosque downward-facing red arrow 116'
MF 15 Northern Ireland Terry McFlynn (c)
FW 16 Australia Chris Payne downward-facing red arrow 75'
FW 19 Australia Mark Bridge 63' Yellow card 31'
DF 22 South Korea Byun Sung-Hwan
Substitutes:
GK 20 Australia Ivan Necevski
DF 5 Australia Hayden Foxe upward-facing green arrow 105'
MF 7 Australia Brendan Gan
DF 12 Australia Shannon Cole upward-facing green arrow 75'
FW 31 Australia Joey Gibbs upward-facing green arrow 116'
Manager:
Czech Republic Vitezslav Lavicka

Joe Marston Medal:
Simon Colosimo (Sydney FC)


Assistant referees:
Ben Wilson
Matthew Cream
Fourth official:
Matthew Breeze

Match rules


A-League
2010 Champions
Australia
Sydney FC
Second Title

Statistics[edit]

Melbourne Sydney
Attempts at goal 14 12
Attempts on target 6 6
Attempts off target 7 6
Attempts - woodwork 1 0
Keeper saves 3 4
Ball possession 51% 49%
Corners 8 5
Fouls committed 13 16
Offsides 3 3
Yellow cards 2 4
Red cards 0 0

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "A-League Grand Final To Be Refereed By Strebre Delovski". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Sydney FC claim A-League title". ESPN. 20 March 2010. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
  3. ^ "Tahj secures glory for Gold Coast". A-League.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 November 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
  4. ^ "2010 A-League Grand Final". 27 February 2011. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ The stadium was configured into rectangular mode for the match

External links[edit]

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