Adelaide United sits in fifth place on the A-League ladder after 24 rounds.
Marcelo Carrusca pulled the strings in their 3-1 triumph against Sydney FC on Friday night, creating goals for Fabio Ferreira and Sergio Cirio in an ill-tempered affair at Coopers Stadium.
Sydney’s Matt Thompson scored before Adelaide’s Bruce Djite sealed the win some three minutes from fulltime.
A-League wrap of round 24
ADELAIDE UNITED 3 (Fabio Ferreira 13m, Sergio Cirio 55m, Bruce Djite 88m)
SYDNEY FC 1 (Matt Thompson 75m)
Coopers Stadium. Crowd: 14,212. Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones.
NEWCASTLE JETS 5 (Emile Heskey 35m, Joel Griffiths 46m, Adam Taggart 57m, 77m, Michael Bridges 90+3m)
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WELLINGTON PHOENIX 0
Hunter Stadium. Crowd: 9,483. Referee: Strebre Delovski.
BRISBANE ROAR 1 (Luke Brattan 90+2m)
MELBOURNE VICTORY 0
Suncorp Stadium. Crowd: 17,965. Referee: Peter Green.
CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 2 (Kim Seung-Yong 45+2m, Bernie Ibini 77m)
MELBOURNE HEART 1 (Orlando Engelaar 34m)
AAMI Park. Crowd: 5,418. Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura.
WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 3 (Jerome Polenz 42m, Mark Bridge 61m, Tomi Juric 78m)
PERTH GLORY 0
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Pirtek Stadium. Crowd: 12,128. Referee: Tim McGilchrist.
Ladder after round 24 P W D L GF GA GD Pts
Brisbane Roar 24 15 3 6 40 21 19 48
Western Sydney Wanderers 24 10 8 6 29 24 5 38
Melbourne Victory 24 10 6 8 35 39 -4 36
Central Coast Mariners 24 10 6 8 28 32 -4 36
Adelaide United 24 9 7 8 42 32 10 34
Newcastle Jets 24 9 5 10 29 30 -1 32
Sydney FC 24 10 2 12 33 35 -2 32
Wellington Phoenix 24 7 7 10 34 42 -8 28
Melbourne Heart 24 6 7 11 31 35 -4 25
Perth Glory 24 5 7 12 22 33 -11 22
LEADING GOALSCORERS 13: Adam Taggart (Newcastle) 11: Besart Berisha (Brisbane), David Williams (Melbourne Heart) 10: James Troisi (Victory), Stein Huysegems (Wellington) 9: Jeronimo Neumann (Adelaide) 8: Fabio Ferreira (Adelaide), Alessandro Del Piero (Sydney), Sergio Cirio (Adelaide)
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