Canberra United 1-0 Brisbane Roar
by Alyce Collett (15/11/26)
Above: Canberra United celebrate after Sienna Dale scored her match winning goal against Brisbane today. Photo: via A Leagues.
Canberra United made it two wins on the trot this afternoon with a 1-0 win over Brisbane Roar thanks to an early goal from Sienna Dale.
Canberra’s goal came early in the first half, when Dale found herself on the end of a perfectly placed Sasha Grove cross, and with her first touch she perfectly placed the shot that had enough pace to fly past the out stretched Chloe Lincoln in the Brisbane goal.
The first half began in a pretty free flowing manner, with both sides stringing together various degrees of dangerous attacking manoeuvres.
Up one end it was Katrina Guillou and Maja Markovski working together well to create danger in attack, with Markovski in particular cleverly working the ball around defenders.
Meanwhile for the hosts it was Grove whose pace was keeping Brisbane’s defence on its toes, and whose cross was the best chance on goal from either side in the opening minutes.
Canberra took the early lines share of possession and final third entries, and eventually got their reward with a goal in the 17th minute.
Even after the goal, Canberra continued to lead the chances at goal in both volume and degree of danger.
One big contrast between the sides that made the difference in the end was while in the middle of an attacking play, Canberra had a lot more players involved in their attacking plays than Brisbane did. Brisbane was relying on Markovski by herself and to a lesser extent Murphy Agnew to create all the attacking potential, whereas Canberra had the likes of Grove, Dale, Michelle Heyman and others all involved on a number of occasions.
Interestingly Brisbane did finish the first half with more of the possession, but were -9 in shots at goal, and -6 in shots on target. The Roar also finished the first half with 20 less entries into their final third than what their hosts had recorded.
None of these stats improved for Brisbane in the second half. The Roar did still have more of the possession, but finished the match -12 in total shots, -9 in shots on target (the Roar did not record any) and -17 in final third entries.
Teams: CANBERRA UNITED (3-5-2): James, Grove, Christopherson, Ayson, Anton, Tolland, Gordon, Condon, Dale, Sasaki, Heyman. Substitutes: Brown, Malone, McMahon, Schöfberger, Majstorovic, Morgan, Tallon-Henniker.
Scorers: Dale 17’
BRISBANE ROAR (3-4-3): Lincoln, Martin, Punch, Hodgson, Long, Curtis, Guillou, Kruger, Markovski, Agnew, Stephenson. Substitutes: Roach, Smothers, Studer, Tathem, Franco, Hoyos, Kinsella.
Referee: Bec Mackie.
Attendance: TBC.
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