Brisbane Roar 3 – 1 Canberra United
By Emma Burke 23/1/25
Above: Brisbane Roar celebrate after scoring in their win against Canberra United. Photo: via the A-Leagues.
In their third game in seven days, Brisbane Roar defeated Canberra United 3-1 at Spencer Park thanks to goals from Daisy Brown, Sharn Freier and Bente Jansen.
This result also sees Brisbane’s undefeated run now stretch to five games and see them climb all the way from ninth to fourth on the ladder.
Making her first start of the season by replacing Teagan Bertolissio who received a red card last week, Sophia Christopherson opened the scoring for her side when Roar keeper Chloe Lincoln made a poor clearance right into her path.
Christopherson sent the ball right back at Lincoln, who had no time or opportunity to rectify her error.
It took the home side until the last minute of regular time in the first half to tie things up, which they did by taking advantage of a quick break.
A pass from the Dutch import Jansen split Canberra’s lines and allow Ashlyn Miller to run onto the pass before toe-poking it forward to herself.
Miller was able to then send off a square ball to Daisy Brown, who was waiting in the six yard box, and her first time touch sent the ball into the left side of the goal.
Giving up their lead was only the start of it for Canberra, who were then briefly locked out of their change room at half time.
The visitors came out of the rooms looking to secure the lead again, applying a high press against Brisbane’s defence in the hopes of exploiting an error but in the meantime, Roar substitute Freier did what she does best and tore up the left flank.
Freier was able to shake off defender Hayley Taylor-Young, who had already been put through her paces by Aimee Medwin, and then seeing no option to cross to in the box, Freier elected to hold onto the ball and press forward into the box before dragging the ball across the face of goal to score on a very tight angle.
Canberra had a solid attacking spell where multiple shots were fired in quick succession, but Brisbane’s defence stood strong to block each one.
The final goal of the night was scored by Jansen, once again taking advantage of a poor clearance from Canberra’s defence and scored her seventh goal for the season.
Teams: BRISBANE ROAR (4-1-2-1-2): Lincoln, Medwin, Studer, Varley, Seidl, Woods, Miller, Meyers, Hayashi, Jansen, Brown Substitutes: Franco, Freier, Stephenson, Piazza, Cuthbert, Kinsella
Scorers: Brown 45′, Freier 66′, Jansen 89′
CANBERRA UNITED (5-3-2): James, Christopherson, Robers, Taylor-Young, Grove, Malone, Wardlow, Anton, Gordon, Heyman, Aulicino Substitutes: Majstorovic, Hawkins, Stanic-Floody, Briedis, McKenzie, Dale
Scorers: Christopherson 13′
Referee: Rebecca Durcau
Attendance: 955.
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