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Mariners host Victory in heavy weight bout -
Another week, another massive game and there are no signs of it letting up soon. The whips are cracking as we head into the home straight of the A-League season 8 and neither the Premiership nor the final six have been determined. Saturday night’s Central Coast Mariner’s and Melbourne Victory will be an intriguing battle between two of the heavy weights of the season so far. The Mariners slipped on the “banana peel” I spoke if last week and now find themselves under slightly greater pressure. With only a point separating them from the Western Sydney Wanderers the upcoming games are made all the more crucial. After an excellent start to the Perth Glory game culminating in a well finished goal to Bernie Ibini and some bright displays of interplay, the Mariners began squandering their chances and making a decreasing amount of them. When Perth Glory were able to find a well taken equaliser, they begun to show signs their coaches brief stay had already had a positive effect. Once the Glory were equal, they increasingly played to their new game plan of patient possession and it paid off when an excellent cross met with a super headed finish to [...]
Erin Morrow