Sydney FC took late advantage of a wrongly disallowed goal for the Wanderers to take the first Sydney Derby of the season 1-0.
With precious little separating the two sides, a pair of key moments at the end of each half decided the game.
The first, the Wanderers storming down the left flank with Mitch Nichols who delivered a pin-point cross into the box, with Jaushua Sotirio lobbing the Sydney FC keeper with an inventing flick on header. Before Sotirio could even start the celebration in earnest it was snuffed out by the linesman. The replays showed that a trailing leg from the Sydney FC defender was playing Sotirio on and the goal should have stood.
Sydney FC were on the back foot for the majority of the game, but found the back of the net with their only shot on target. It came in the 88th minute, a free kick that wasn't properly cleared found it's way back into the penalty area, Ninkovic's first touch saw him well placed to strike on goal, and he beat Redmayne with a shot that nestled into the back of the net at the far post.
It was not a deserved victory for the hosts, but the Wanderers had ample opportunity to make up for the disallowed goal. Once again, the set pieces from the Red & Black were aimed dreadfully, with corners that flew over everyone to go out for a throw-in on the opposite side, free kicks that vanished into the crowd or were played short before being lost. The team need to find their cutting edge or it will be another long season, this time with no prospect of Asian Champions League football to distract from the A-League.
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