Melbourne Victory drew its second friendly with Adelaide United yesterday, after beating the South Australians last week with a 2-1 win.
A goal for Danny Allsopp and a penalty converted by Adelaide’s Cassio left the teams at 1-1.
With Leigh Broxham away with the Olyroos, and Nick Ward and Carlos Hernandez injured, Ernie Merrick opted for a creative midfield line-up featuring Steve Pantelidis, Kaz Patafta and Leandro Love.
The Herald Sun reveals that Tom Pondeljak will not be available for the Victory’s match against the Chunnam Dragons next week. The midfielder hasn’t moved to Melbourne yet. I suppose he didn’t expect to be needed.
His absence, as well as the injuries to Hernandez and Grant Brebner, means that Kaz Patafta and Billy Celeski will be clamouring for game time, especially if Nick Ward does not recover from his groin injury in time.
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Hmmmm off to a so so start for pondeljak, melbourne need him to play, and in champions league of all things, and he cant because he hasnt moved yet? still it is the herald sun and their reports are fairly naieve when it comes to football so i wouldnt be suprised if this changes, esspecially considering its such a big game for the whole club.
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