Brisbane Roar 0-2 Adelaide United
By Emma Burke 22/2/26
Above: Adelaide United players have every reason to celebrate tonight after picking up an important win over Brisbane . Photo: via the A-Leagues.
Adelaide United have picked up all three points against Brisbane Roar, handily dispatching the home side 2-0 thanks to goals from defenders Emily Hodgson and Ella Tonkin.
Irish international Erin Healy set the stage for the opening goal of the game when she twisted and turned her way around her defender in Josie Studer, to then cut the call across the face of goal.
Waiting for her in the box was Hodgson who had made an impressive run down the entire pitch to be perfectly positioned for a tap-in from Healy.
Brisbane had a huge chance to level the playing field through their Dutch star Bente Jansen when she sent two defenders tracking her to the shops in the box, leaving her open against Ilona Melegh in goals.
The ball seemed to get caught under Jansen’s feet as she turned, and instead of taking a shot she chose to lay it off to an arriving Daisy Brown whose shot ended up deflected away.
Adelaide had a slew of chances throughout the rest of the first half, with most coming from Healy and Fiona Worts, but each one was dealt with by Roar keeper Chloe Linocln.
The second half saw Adelaide remain firmly in control of the game, pushing to find a second goal and create a situation too difficult for Brisbane to work their way out of.
United succeeded in this endeavour when substitute Lara Gooch came on for her third appearance of the season, marking her return from injury.
Gooch had an opportunity on goal that she initially shot directly at Lincoln, her second effort slipped under the keeper, but a last ditch effort from Angie Beard saw the ball out for a corner kick.
The resulting corner gave Adelaide their second goal of the night, with Dylan Holmes’ delivery finding the head of Tonkin at the far post.
This result sees Adelaide now jump up to third on the table, while Brisbane have dropped down into eighth to close out Round 18, the last before the break for the Women’s Asian Cup.
Teams: BRISBANE ROAR (5-4-1): Lincoln, Seidl, Beard, Studer, Medwin, Meyers, Hayashi, Woods, Miller, Jansen, Brown Substitutes: Kruger, Kinsella, Stephenson, Franco, Piazza, Cuthbert
ADELAIDE UNITED (4-3-3): Melegh, Tolland, McNamara, Tonkin, E. Hodgson, Morgan, M. Taranto, Condon, A. Taranto, Healy, Worts Substitutes: Jenkins, Murray, Zois, Holmes, Dawber, Gooch
Scorers: 11’ E. Hodgson, 79’ Tonkin
Referee: Sophie Allum.
Attendance: TBC.
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