2015 FFA Cup Final

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2015 FFA Cup Final
Event 2015 FFA Cup
Melbourne Victory Perth Glory
2 0
Date 7 November 2015
Venue AAMI Park, Melbourne
Man of the Match Kosta Barbarouses
Referee Ben Williams
Attendance 15,098
Weather Partly cloudy
17 °C (63 °F)[1]
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The 2015 FFA Cup Final was the 2nd final of the premier association football knockout cup competition in Australia. The match was held on 7 November 2015 at AAMI Park. The final was held on a Saturday night for the first time.[2] Adelaide United were the defending champions, though they were knocked out of the competition at the Quarter-Final stage by rivals Melbourne Victory.[3]

Perth Glory qualified for the FFA Cup Final on 21 October 2015, with a 3–1 victory over Melbourne City at Nib Stadium. Melbourne Victory qualified for the FFA Cup Final on 28 October 2015, with a 3–0 victory over Hume City at AAMI Park.

Melbourne Victory won the match 2–0, with goals from Oliver Bozanic and Besart Berisha.

Venue

Panorama of AAMI Park, host of the 2015 FFA Cup Final.

On 27 October 2015, Football Federation Australia announced the 2015 FFA Cup Final would be held at either AAMI Park in Melbourne or Perth’s nib Stadium. The choice of venue depended on the result of the second semi-final match between Hume City and Melbourne Victory. If Melbourne Victory defeat Hume City, the 2015 Final would be held at AAMI Park. A Hume City win would see the other successful semi-finalist, Perth Glory, host event at nib Stadium. Melbourne Victory's win confirmed the Final venue to be AAMI Park.[4]

The home ground of Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City since its opening in 2010, AAMI Park holds a capacity crowd of 30,050 which makes it the largest capacity rectangular field venue in Victoria. The stadium was one of five host venues for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.

Road to the final

Melbourne Victory Round Perth Glory
Opponent Result Opponent Result
Balmain Tigers 6–0 (A) Round of 32 Newcastle Jets 2–2 (A)
4–3 (p)
Rockdale City Suns 3–2 (A) Round of 16 Queensland Lions (a.e.t.) 1–0 (A)
Adelaide United 3–1 (H) Quarter-finals Western Sydney Wanderers 1–1 (H)
4–2 (p)
Hume City 3–0 (A) Semi-finals Melbourne City 3–1 (H)
Note: In all results above, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

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Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory were among 648 teams who entered the inaugural FFA Cup competition, and as A-League clubs, both entered the tournament in the Round of 32.[5]

Perth Glory began their FFA Cup campaign with a 4–3 penalty shootout win over the Newcastle Jets at Magic Park, after a 1–1 draw in normal time, 2–2 after extra time. They then achieved a 1–0 extra time victory over the Queensland Lions, and a 4–2 penalty shootout victory over the Western Sydney Wanderers after a 1–1 draw in normal time, and subsequently qualified for the FFA Cup Final on 21 October 2015, with a 3–1 victory over Melbourne City at nib Stadium.

Match

Summary

Melbourne Victory were dominant at the beginning of the first half. The home side had the ball in the back of net by the 16th minute courtesy of a strike by New Zealand international Kosta Barbarouses, although the effort was disallowed as Victory defender Matthieu Delpierre was offside. Victory went ahead in the 35th minute, when Oliver Bozanic was on hand after build up on the right from Jason Geria and Barbarouses. Melbourne doubled the advantage seven minutes later with Carl Valeri playing a through-ball into the path of striker Besart Berisha, whose first touch took him past the final defender and then fired the ball across Perth Glory keeper Ante Covic and inside the left post.

Perth started the second half with the majority of possession and almost halved the deficit within four minutes when Diogo Ferreira slammed a shot into the right-hand upright. In the 61st minute, Richard Garcia's first-time effort flew over the crossbar. Perth had most of the scoring chances in the second half without being able to convert any of them. Victory were forced to play the last eight minutes with 10 men after Valeri was sent off for a second bookable offence - a foul on Dino Đulbić.[6]

Details

7 November 2015
19:30 AEDT
Melbourne Victory 2–0 Perth Glory
Bozanic Goal 35'
Berisha Goal 42'		 Report
AAMI Park, Melbourne
Attendance: 15,098
Referee: Ben Williams
Melbourne Victory
Perth Glory
GK 1 Australia Danny Vukovic
RB 2 Australia Jason Geria
CB 6 Australia Leigh Broxham Booked 33'
CB 17 France Matthieu Delpierre
LB 5 Republic of Macedonia Daniel Georgievski
RM 21 Australia Carl Valeri Yellow cardYellow cardRed card 77', 86'
CM 7 Brazil Guilherme Finkler Substituted off 84'
LM 13 Australia Oliver Bozanic
RF 9 New Zealand Kosta Barbarouses
CF 8 Albania Besart Berisha Substituted off 88'
LF 14 Tunisia Fahid Ben Khalfallah Booked 40' Substituted off 90+2'
Substitutes:
GK 20 Australia Lawrence Thomas
DF 24 Australia Thomas Deng Substituted in 88'
MF 16 Australia Rashid Mahazi Substituted in 84'
MF 22 Australia Jesse Makarounas
FW 11 Australia Connor Pain Substituted in 90+2'
Manager:
Australia Kevin Muscat
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GK 1 Australia Ante Covic
RB 19 Australia Joshua Risdon
CB 6 Australia Dino Đulbić Booked 15'
CB 23 Australia Michael Thwaite
LB 3 Australia Marc Warren Substituted off 86'
RM 10 Serbia Nebojša Marinković
CM 13 Australia Diogo Ferreira
LM 15 Australia Hagi Gligor Substituted off 61'
RF 11 Australia Richard Garcia
CF 16 Brazil Sidnei Booked 55' Substituted off 74'
LF 17 Spain Diego Castro
Substitutes:
GK 12 Australia Jerrad Tyson
DF 2 Australia Alex Grant Substituted in 74'
DF 5 Australia Antony Golec Substituted in 86'
FW 20 Curaçao Guyon Fernandez Substituted in 61'
FW 21 Australia Stefan Valentini
Manager:
England Kenny Lowe

Man of the Match (Mark Viduka Medal):
Kosta Barbarouses

Assistant referees:
Luke Brennan
Brad Hobson
Fourth official:
Nathan MacDonald
Additional assistant referees:
Jarred Gillett
Adam Fielding

Match rules:[7]

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Five named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

Statistics

Statistics[6] Melbourne Victory Perth Glory
Goals scored 2 0
Total shots 9 11
Shots on target 3 4
Ball possession 49% 51%
Corner kicks 5 8
Fouls 15 17
Offsides 4 2
Yellow cards 2 2
Red cards 1 0

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.accuweather.com/en/au/melbourne/26216/november-weather/26216
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External links

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