{"id":1569,"date":"2025-11-24T02:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2025-11-24T02:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:20:11","slug":"sydney-fc-give-a-league-blues-to-melbourne-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/sydney-fc-give-a-league-blues-to-melbourne-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney FC give A-League blues to Melbourne Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney FC piled more misery on Melbourne Victory after claiming a convincing Big Blue win.<\/p>\n<p>A brace from Joe Lolley and a goal from Alex Grant sealed the 3-0 result for the Sky Blues at Leichhardt Oval, extending their winning streak to four matches.<\/p>\n<p>The victory also lifted Ufuk Talay\u2019s side to the top of the A-League Men table, capitalising on Auckland FC\u2019s 1-1 draw at home to Brisbane Roar, which saw the New Zealand outfit slip to second.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B7GSlAJfVpY?si=KqFuRkD8CZcDq9_g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are full of confidence at the moment as a team,\u201d said two-goal hero Lolley post-match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to be patient. It was a tough battle in the [rainy] conditions, but we knew [it would] open up and thankfully we took advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a similar story across both cities as Western Sydney Wanderers also earned three points and Melbourne City suffered defeat in respective matches.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B412FQe-jRw?si=rU6Omkku8Hyk_MOk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Wanderers finally picked up their first win of the season by edging Central Coast Mariners in a five-goal thriller, while Melbourne City failed to capitalise on their numerical advantage and lost 4-1 to 10-man Adelaide United.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Newcastle Jets\u2019 poor form continued following a 2-1 loss to Perth Glory, and Wellington Phoenix were beaten at home by Macarthur.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXZU7XfGvaQ?si=QRydaSebf-0NO0kK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney FC piled more misery on Melbourne Victory after claiming a convincing Big Blue win. A brace from Joe Lolley and a goal from Alex Grant sealed the 3-0 result for the Sky Blues at Leichhardt Oval, extending their winning streak to four matches. The victory also lifted Ufuk Talay\u2019s side to the top of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/sydney-fc-give-a-league-blues-to-melbourne-victory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sydney FC give A-League blues to Melbourne Victory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[301,127],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-a-league","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}