Adelaide United’s winless streak continues after it was demolished 4-2 by a rampant Melbourne City outfit which was desperate to atone for last weekend’s capitulation.
Melbourne City had failed to win in Adelaide since 2010, but goals from Erik Paartalu, Aaron Mooy and a brace from Uruguayan striker Bruno Fornaroli handed coach John van’t Schip a deserved victory at Coopers Stadium.
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The result leaves Adelaide rooted to the bottom of the table and consigns Guillermo Amor’s men to a third consecutive defeat, while City provisionally move into fifth spot on the table.
Mooy’s precise corner was met by the head of Paartalu, who opened the scoring for City after just eight minutes, following some questionable defending by the Reds’ defence. Mooy emphatically extended City’s advantage with a sumptuous strike off the underside of the crossbar on 35 minutes. The Socceroo international picked up the ball on the edge of the area before dancing his way past three United players to convert his second of the year.
Striker Fornaroli, who arrived over the off-season, then found the net with a delicate chip over goalkeeper John Hall. Sergio Cirio’s curling strike on 66 minutes offered United a lifeline, but it failed to spark a comeback for Adelaide, and within five minutes Fornaroli notched his second after rounding the onrushing Hall. Pablo Sanchez grabbed a late consolation clinically dispatching his penalty kick, although it was a case of too little too late.
FULL TIME | @AdelaideUnited 2 @MelbourneCity 4. What a performance from the away side! #ADLvMCY #BeautifulGame pic.twitter.com/58GYdrLSAC
— Hyundai A-League (@ALeague) November 5, 2015
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