Sydney FC continued their undefeated start to the A-League season with a confident 3-0 win over under-strength Adelaide United at the Sydney Football Stadium.

The win has continued Sydney's best ever start to an A-League season, now standing at three wins and two draws from the opening five rounds.

The result was all but secured after a strike from Terry McFlynn in just the second minute and another goal 35 minutes in from Alex Brosque.

But the highlight of a fairly lopsided contest was a 35-metre second-half wonder strike from substitute Brendon Santalab.

Santalab's long-range bomb in the 79th minute replicated the A-League goal of the season also scored by the 26-year-old against United at Adelaide Oval in January.

Adelaide returned from Japan just 36 hours prior to the game after playing in the Asian Champions League.

And their sluggish start proved costly as Sydney raced to a two-goal advantage before United threatened Sydney goalkeeper Clint Bolton.

Adelaide coach Aurelio Vidmar fielded just three players from his starting line-up from Wednesday's 1-1 draw against Kashima Antlers.

In contrast Sydney coach John Kosmina selected an unchanged line-up from that which battled to a scoreless draw last weekend in Newcastle.

Melbourne Victory striker Archie Thompson scored four minutes into injury time as goalkeeper Michael Theoklitos was controversially sent off in a remarkable 2-2 A-League draw with Central Coast.

Thompson scored his second goal to snatch a point for the visitors after a Matt Simon brace appeared to have secured the three points for the Mariners at Bluetongue Stadium.

The Theoklitos incident happened in the 58th minute when the keeper was jostling with striker Sasho Petrovski in the box before a corner kick and Theoklitos started jumping on the spot, catching the striker's foot.

While there didn't seem to be too much in it, referee Peter Green showed no hesitation in giving the keeper a straight red for "violent conduct (stomping)".

Melbourne coach Ernie Merrick said he was unsure why the card was brandished while his Mariners counterpart Lawrie McKinna felt there may be more to it than first thought.

"Something had happened in the corner previous to that ... maybe the ref saw that and kept an eye on it and it happened again, but we never saw anything," McKinna said.

At the other end, colourful Central Coast keeper Mark Bosnich continued his fairytale comeback with two fine saves, both denying Victory striker Danny Allsopp from point blank range.

Six years on from his freefall into drugs and depression, the 36-year-old Bosnich has quickly rediscovered the form which made him an Aston Villa and Manchester United star, having signed a seven-week deal to replace the banned Danny Vukovic.

The game exploded in the 12th minute when Simon opened the scoring, calmly bringing down a floating ball from Bradley Porter in the area and slotting home for his first goal in Gosford.

The advantage was short lived as four minutes later Socceroo Thompson made it 1-1 with a neat left-footed finish which gave Bosnich no chance.

Simon's second came after he rose well to head home, the ball striking the underside of the crossbar before narrowly crossing the line for his fourth goal in five matches.

Then, against the run of play, Thompson sent the 9000-strong crowd home disappointed with a close-range strike to keep Victory on top of the table after five rounds.

"It feels like a loss," McKinna said.

Mariners midfielder Adrian Caceres came close to scoring against his former club three times, his best chance blocked by teammate Petrovski when the ball appeared destined to find the top, right hand corner.

Sydney FC's 3-0 thumping of Adelaide United in other round five fixture has put them level on 11 points with Melbourne but Victory retain top spot on goal difference.

It will be another busy week for Victory following Brazilian striker Ney Fabiano's nine-match ban for spitting. The club is appealing the verdict.

Jets striker Joel Griffiths has continued to play the role of tormentor against the Roar, producing a late winner in his A-League club's 1-0 win in Brisbane.

Griffiths put his name on the scoresheet for the fifth consecutive time against the Queenslanders in the 84th minute in front of 12,203 people at Suncorp Stadium.

The result came despite the Roar having the lion's share of opportunities.

The Roar were clearly on the front foot for the first half with six shots on goal compared to the Jets' two.

However the home side just couldn't find a way past Jets goalkeeper Ante Covic, whose blinder of a match was only equalled by the Roar's blunders.

Possibly the Roar's best chance was wasted early on in the 16th minute when midfielder Matthew McKay failed to convert a one-on-one opportunity against Covic after intercepting a backpass from Daniel Piorkowski.

Not long after in the 22nd minute, Roar's Massimo Murdocca made a run down the right flank before crossing and finding the head of Serginho van Dijk.

Despite a pinpoint header that would have just snuck in between the left post, the ball was sensationally saved off the line by the outstretched hand of Covic.

Roar coach Frank Farina tried to ignite his troops in the 68th minute, substituting Tahj Minniecon for Danny Tiatto.

The Roar kept the pressure on late into the second half, missing several opportunities along the way, until a corner from the Jets' Jin-Hyung Song bounced around inside the box like a pinball, before being tapped in by Griffiths.

Despite finishing the game with 14 shots on goal to the Jets' five, the Roar walk away with zero points, meaning they have only won two points from a possible 12 from their last five encounters against the Jets.

Perth Glory have notched their first win of the A-League season with a crucial 1-0 triumph over Wellington Phoenix at Members Equity Stadium.

In front of a paltry 4,433 fans - the Glory's lowest ever home attendance in the A-League - Eugene Dadi provided the heroics from the penalty spot in the 77th minute after being brought down by John McKain in the box.

It was a deserved win for the Glory, who controlled the majority of possession throughout the contest and were unlucky not to go ahead earlier.

The victory moves Perth off the bottom of the table and back to within two points of the top four, while the Phoenix are left to prop up the table with just two draws from five rounds of football.

Wellington were content to attack on the counter in a lacklustre first-half and it was the Glory who had the first real chance to break the deadlock in the 27th minute.

The home side were awarded a free kick just six yards from goal when Wellington goalkeeper Glenn Moss handled a backpass from defender Andrew Durante.

But Perth failed to capitalise on the opportunity, with midfielder Wayne Srhoj's low-drilled shot on goal crashing into a tangle of legs on the goal-line.

The visitors were counting their luck in first-half stoppage time when Nikolai Topor-Stanley's goal-bound header was cleared off the line by McKain, whose lighting-quick reflex ensured the teams headed to the break locked at 0-0.

Moss had little trouble keeping out Dadi's 57th-minute header but the Wellington custodian was made to earn his pay in the 69th minute to save the Frenchman's close-range shot in a goal-mouth scramble.

It signalled the start of a frenzied attack from the Glory as cracks started to appear in the Phoenix defence.

Nikita Rukavytsya blazed a shot over the target in the 71st minute after making a scintillating run down the left, while just two minutes later Moss dived high and to his right to palm away substitute Naum Sekulovski's 22-metre shot.

But Wellington's back four eventually crumbled under the immense pressure, with McKain clearly pulling down Dadi in the box as the striker raced towards the loose ball.

Dadi made no mistake with the spot kick, drilling his shot low and to the right, to notch his fourth goal of the season.

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