Melbourne Victory prevailed once again in the second of Glory’s 2025 Regional South West Tour games, running out 3-0 winners at Bunbury’s Hay Park on Wednesday evening.
Click HERE for David Zdrilic’s post-match reaction.
Fresh from a 1-0 victory in Mandurah on Sunday, last season’s beaten A-League Grand Finalists hit the front with 20 minutes on the clock as Matthew Grimaldi delivered a low cross from the left and Jing Reec tapped home.
Grimaldi then added a goal to his assist early in the second half, rifling a powerful shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the box and Victory added some further gloss to the scoreline in stoppage-time as substitute Oliver Dragicevic found the net.
With Sam Sutton and debutant Rhys Bozinovski to the fore, Glory had looked the likelier of the two sides to break the deadlock in the opening 15 minutes, but were caught out on the break for Victory’s opener and then struggled for attacking fluency during the remainder of the first half.
Their cause was not helped by the premature departure of midfield dup Callum Timmins and Brandon O’Neill, the former tweaking his hamstring and the latter sustaining nasty gash to his lip.
Head Coach David Zdrilic duly made a raft of further changes at half time and a more youthful Glory side immediately began to ask questions of the visitors’ defence.
Nathanael Blair headed a Will Freney cross over the bar inside the opening three minutes and although Grimaldi’s clinical finish soon doubled the visitors’ lead, Khoa Ngo almost hauled Glory back into it as he forced substitute goalkeeper Jack Warshawsky into a fine, low save.
Warshawsky then parried an angled effort from Blair as the men in purple continued to press into the shadows of full time.
But Arthur Diles’ side were destined to have the final word, Dragicevic poking in through a crowded box to ensure the navy-and-whites claimed the spoils.
Match Details
Regional South West Tour Game Two
Perth Glory 0 Melbourne Victory 3 (Reec 20′, Grimaldi 54′, Gradicevic 90+1′)
Half-time: 0-1
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Hay Park, Bunbury
Perth Glory First Half: 1.Mark BIRIGHITTI (gk), 3.Sam SUTTON, 4.Scott WOOTTON (c), 8.Callum TIMMINS, 9.Jaiden KUCHARSKI, 18.Rhys BOZINOVSKI, 20.Trent OSTLER, 22.Adam TAGGART (c), 27.Will FRENEY, 28.Kaelan MAJEKODUNMI, 45.Brian KALTAK
Perth Glory Second Half: 1.Mark BIRIGHITTI (gk), 7.Nicholas PENNINGTON, 14.Nathanael BLAIR, 16.Gabriel POPOVIC, 19.Josh RISDON, 25.Sebastian DESPOTOVSKI, 26.Khoa NGO, 27.Will FRENEY (12.Taras GOMULKA 74′), 28.Kaelan MAJEKODUNMI, 31.Joel ANASMO, 33.Daniel JANKULOSKI
Substitutes not used: 17.Arion SULEMANI, 50.Ryan WARNER(gk)
Yellow Cards: Pennington
Red Cards: None
Melbourne Victory: 25.Jack DUNCAN (gk), 2.Jason DAVIDSON, 8.Jordi VALADON, , 10.Denis GENREAU, 11.Clerismario SANTOS RODRIGUES, 14.Matthew GRIMALDI, 19.Jing REEC, 21.Roderick MIRANDA, 22.Josh RAWLINS, 8.Kayne RAZMOVSKI, 42.Xavier STELLA
Substitutes: 3.Adama TRAORE, 4.Lachlan JACKSON, 9.Nikolaos VERGOS, 23.Keegan JELACIC, 27.Louis D’ARRIGO, 31.Daniel LAVARESKI, 40.Oscar VON SCHRENK, 41.Malik OLUKHALE, 43.Oliver DRAGICEVIC, 44.George MIHAILIDES, 50.Jack WARSHAWSKY (gk)
Yellow Cards: Razmovski
Red Cards: None
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Match Report: Victory claim spoils in second Regional Tour game
