Melbourne City continued their stay atop of the A-League Men's ladder as both Marco Tilio and Mathew Leckie combined to down Wellington Phoenix in a big win on Saturday night.
The comfortable 6-0 win over the Phoenix now has Melbourne City sitting at 10 games undefeated in the A-League Men's competition after Marco Tilio came off the bench to score two brilliant goals while Mathew Leckie also scored and Connor Metcalfe grabbed an assist in the 6-0 rout.
Unfortunately for the Phoenix, proceedings did not go to plan early on as young central defender Finn Surman managed to put the ball into his own net to give City the lead after 18 minutes.
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Shortly after the second half had kicked off, Leckie had gotten his name onto the scoresheet as Florin Berenguer found the 31-year-old City winger, who only had to guide the ball into the back of the net from point-blank range to double City's lead after 54 minutes of action.
Connor Metcalfe whipped in a corner which Curtis Good headed home, before the introduction of another Socceroo put the cherry on top for City.
After being on the pitch for a matter of minutes, the recently-capped Socceroos winger Tilio found his first of the afternoon when the 21-year-old brought the ball down in the Phoenix box and was allowed space to twist and turn to place his shot brilliantly into the far corner for Melbourne City's fifth goal.
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Again, after making the Phoenix defence pay only six minutes prior to opening his account in the match, the youngster was found by a brilliant ball from Curtis Good which allowed him todink across Oli Sail for City's sixth of the afternoon in Cronulla.
Melbourne City don't have to wait long until they are back in action as they next face Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory in the next seven days.