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2008/2009 Season Playoff Series Matches
written by Thomas Esamie |
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The top four teams of the regular season meet in matches as shown in home and away legs. Matches marked '1' and '2' are single elimination games, winner of Match 2 is crowned Champion of the 2008-2009 season.
Melbourne v Adelaide ---------winner----------------------------2 Grand Final
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Grand Final Match, winner becomes champion Played (28/02/09) Telstra Dome Referee : Matthew Breeze, Crowd : 53273 | ||||
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| Melbourne Victory Michael Theoklitos, Kevin Muscat, Sebastian Ryall, Matthew Kemp, Danny Allsopp (sent off 64), Archie Thompson, Rodrigo Vargas, Billy Celeski, Tom Pondeljak (Grant Brebner 82), Carlos Hernandez, Nick Ward (Evan Berger 55 (Jose Luis Lopez 88)) Goal : Pondeljak 59 Coach : Ernie Merrick |
1 | - | 0 | Adelaide United Eugene Galekovic, Robert Cornthwaite, Lucas Pantelis (Paul Agostino 62), Cristiano dos Santos (sent off 11), Travis Dodd, Scott Jamieson (Cassio Jose de Abreu Oliveira 73), Jonas Salley, Daniel Mullen, Fabian Barbiero, Sasa Ognenovski, Paul Reid Coach : Aurelio Vidmar |
| Match report by Alan Clark | ||||
Preliminary Final, loser eliminated, winner into Grand Final Played (21/02/09) Hindmarsh Stadium Referee : Srebre Delovski, Crowd : 8472 | ||||
| Adelaide United Eugene Galekovic, Robert Cornthwaite, Lucas Pantelis, Cristiano dos Santos (Paul Agostino 74), Travis Dodd, Scott Jamieson, Jonas Salley (Rostyn Griffiths 79), Daniel Mullen, Fabian Barbiero, Sasa Ognenovski, Paul Reid Goal : Barbiero 25 Coach : Aurelio Vidmar |
1 | - | 0 | Queensland Roar Liam Reddy, Andrew Packer (Henrique Andrade Silva 74), Luke Devere, Craig Moore, Michael Zullo, Massimo Murdocca, Sergio Van Dijk, Matt McKay, Mitch Nichols, Danny Tiatto, Isaka Cernak-Okanya (Charlie Miller 58) Coach : Frank Farina |
| Match report by Tony Tannous | ||||
Major Semi-Final, loser into Preliminary Final, winner into Grand Final 1st leg Played (7/02/09) Hindmarsh Stadium Referee : Srebre Delovski, Crowd : 14119 | ||||
| Adelaide United Eugene Galekovic, Michael Valkanis (Daniel Mullen 45), Lucas Pantelis, Kristian Sarkies (Everson Arantes de Oliveira 41), Paul Agostino (Cristiano dos Santos 72), Travis Dodd, Scott Jamieson, Fabian Barbiero, Sasa Ognenovski, Paul Reid, Michael Marrone Coach : Aurelio Vidmar |
0 | - | 2 | Melbourne Victory Michael Theoklitos, Kevin Muscat, Sebastian Ryall, Matthew Kemp (Evan Berger 65), Danny Allsopp, Archie Thompson, Rodrigo Vargas, Billy Celeski, Tom Pondeljak, Carlos Hernandez (Jose Luis Lopez 76), Nick Ward (Grant Brebner 56) Goals : Hernandez 13, Allsopp 88 Coach : Ernie Merrick |
| Match report by Lino Fusco | ||||
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2nd leg Played (14/02/09) Telstra Dome Referee : Matthew Breeze, Crowd : 34736 | ||||
| Melbourne Victory Michael Theoklitos, Kevin Muscat, Sebastian Ryall, Matthew Kemp, Danny Allsopp, Archie Thompson, Rodrigo Vargas, Billy Celeski (Jose Luis Lopez 76), Tom Pondeljak, Carlos Hernandez (Grant Brebner 59), Nick Ward (Ney Fabiano 79) Goals : Thompson 10, Hernandez 23, Allsopp 44, Pondeljak 48 Coach : Ernie Merrick |
4 | - | 0 | Adelaide United Eugene Galekovic, Robert Cornthwaite, Everson Arantes de Oliveira (Fabian Barbiero 56), Cassio Jose de Abreu Oliveira (sent off 81), Lucas Pantelis (Rostyn Griffiths 46), Cristiano dos Santos, Travis Dodd, Scott Jamieson, Daniel Mullen, Sasa Ognenovski, Paul Reid Coach : Aurelio Vidmar |
| Match report by Alan Clark | ||||
Elimination Semi-Final, loser eliminated, winner into Preliminary Final 1st leg Played (6/02/09) Bluetongue Stadium Referee : Ben Williams, Crowd : 9514 | ||||
| Central Coast Mariners Danny Vukovic, Andre Gumprecht (Andrew Clark 67), Pedj Bojic, Bradley Porter, John Hutchinson, Adrian Caceres (Nik Mrdja 62), Dylan Macallister, Paul O'Grady, Matthew Osman, Alex Wilkinson, Matt Simon (Sasho Petrovski 69) Coach : Lawrie McKinna |
0 | - | 2 | Queensland Roar Liam Reddy, Andrew Packer, Craig Moore, Josh McCloughan (Hyuk-Su Seo 44), Michael Zullo, Massimo Murdocca, Sergio Van Dijk, Tahj Minniecon (Isaka Cernak-Okanya 90), Matthew McKay, Mitch Nichols (Charlie Miller 74), Danny Tiatto (sent off 76) Goals : Nichols 29, Van Dijk 54pk Coach : Frank Farina |
| Match report by Paul Green | ||||
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2nd leg Played (13/02/09) Suncorp Stadium Referee : Peter Green, Crowd : 23705 | ||||
| Queensland Roar Liam Reddy, Andrew Packer, Luke DeVere, Craig Moore, Michael Zullo, Massimo Murdocca, Sergio Van Dijk, Matt McKay, Hyuk-Su Seo, Mitch Nichols (Henrique de Andrade Silva 76), Isaka Cernak (Charlie Miller 61) Goals : Nichols 22, McKay 49 Coach : Frank Farina |
2 | - | 1 | Central Coast Mariners Danny Vukovic, Bradley Porter, John Hutchinson, Dean Heffernan, Dylan Macallister (Nik Mrdja 45), Paul O'Grady, Andrew Clark (Sasho Petrovski 45), Nigel Boogaard (Adrian Caceres 61), Matthew Osman, Alex Wilkinson, Matt Simon Goal : Mrdja 64 Coach : Lawrie McKinna |
| Match report by Adrian Demack | ||||