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Perth produce finals upset with win over wasteful Wellington – The World Game
Perth Glory are still alive in this season’s A-League series finals thanks to a first-half strike from Joel Chianese that broke Wellington Phoenix hearts at Parramatta Stadium on Saturday.
While the Phoenix dominated periods of the opening match of the A-league finals series, their lack of firepower in front of goal led to their undoing.
The third-placed New Zealanders were seeking to end a poor finals record which had yielded only one win in their past six fixtures.
They had reason to be confident against their sixth-placed opponents after defeating last season’s grand finalists a month ago.
The Phoenix, for their part, had been playing without luck in recent weeks as their ow…
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