Nicholas Pennington, Adam Taggart and Tom Lawrence supplied the goals as Glory produced their most complete performance of the season in securing an emphatic 3-0 win over Central Coast Mariners at HBF Park on Saturday evening.
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The visitors failed to register a single shot on target over the course of the 90 minutes, while at the other end, Glory were a constant menace.
Pennington opened the scoring with a composed finish 24 minutes into a first half which the hosts completely dominated and that dominance was eventually translated onto the scoreboard when Taggart marked his return to the starting side by finding the net in stoppage-time.
And any chance of a Mariners comeback was effectively snuffed out shortly after the restart when Lawrence managed to find the net direct from a corner.
The victory, Glory’s fifth in their last eight games, lifts the men in purple to seventh in the table, just one point outside the Finals places.
With starting debutant Giovanni De Abreu and Rhys Bozinovski immediately setting about dominating the heart of midfield, Glory were the better side right from the off.
Pennington saw a close-range header acrobatically blocked by Andrew Redmayne in the Central Coast goal before De Abreu fizzed a volley just over the bar from outside the box as the hosts piled on the early pressure.
And that pressure told midway through the half when Trent Ostler’s low cross from the right was helped on by Charbel Shamoon and Pennington, timing his run to perfection, calmly slotted home at the far post.
Only the post then prevented Lawrence from making it 2-0, the Welshman shrugging off the attentions of James Donachie in the box and getting a shot away which struck the woodwork before cannoning back into Redmayne and eventually going out for a corner.
But the hosts were still destined to double their lead before the break as Lawrence slipped the ball to Taggart at the top of the box and the skipper’s deflected shot found its way into the net.
Adam Griffith’s men continued to hold sway following the restart and all but locked the game up when Lawrence made it 3-0 with his fifth goal of the campaign.
Stepping up to take a corner on the left with his right foot, he bent the ball directly over Redmayne, much to the delight of the Shed who celebrated the Welshman’s Olimpico effort long and hard.
The home defence comfortably held the Mariners at arm’s length during the last half-hour of the contest and indeed it was Glory who came closest to claiming the game’s fourth goal when substitute Luke Amos saw his 20m effort pushed around the post by Redmayne.
Match Details
Isuzu UTE A-League 2025/26 Season Round 12
Perth Glory 3 (Pennington 24′, Taggart 45+1′, Lawrence 54′) Central Coast Mariners 0
Half-time: 2-0
HBF Park
Saturday 10 January 2026
Referee: Ben Abraham
Attendance: 7912
Perth Glory: 29.Matt SUTTON (gk), 2.Charbel SHAMOON, 3.Sam SUTTON (15.Zach LISOLAJSKI 74′), 4.Scott WOOTTON, 7.Nicholas PENNINGTON, 18.Rhys BOZINOVSKI (16.Gabriel POPOVIC 84′), 20.Trent OSTLER (10.Luke AMOS 70′), 22.Adam TAGGART (c) (30.Tadi KUZAMBA 84′), 34.Tom LAWRENCE (17.Arion SULEMANI 70′), 39.Giovanni DE ABREU, 45.Brian KALTAK
Substitutes not used: 5.Riley FOXE, 40.Ryan WARNER (gk)
Yellow Cards: Amos
Red Cards: None
Central Coast Mariners: 30. Andrew REDMAYNE (gk), 2. James DONACHIE, 5. Lucas MAURAGIS, 6. Haine EAMES (7. Christian THEOHAROUS 84′), 8. Alfie McCALMONT, 10. Miguel DI PIZIO, 11. Sabit NGOR (14. Nico DUARTE 87′), 15. Storm ROUX (20. Will KENNEDY 61′), 16. Harrison STEELE (24. Diesel HERRINGTON 61′), 26. Bradley TAPP, 37. Bailey BRANDTMAN (22. Arthur DE LIMA 61′)
Substitutes not used: 9. Ryan EDMONDSON, 50. Jai AJANOVIC (gk)
Yellow Cards: Roux, Ngor, Kennedy
Red Cards: None
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