FULL TIME: PERTH GLORY 3-1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS

Game kicks off in under 10 minutes, can't find a match thread up.

@CCMariners / Starting XI

1. Kennedy (GK)

2. Roux

3. McGing

4. Golec

5. Hoole

6. de Silva

7. Buhagiar

8. Baro (C)

9. Melling

10. Brama

11. Skapetis

Subs: 8. Powell, 11. Pain, 16. Rose, 18. Glover (GK), 19. Poscoliero

Glory lineup cause apparently they don't like making it in an easy list

I'm at the game, I'll try my best to update as things happen

-10 Mariners don't stop practicing in time, get covered by the sprinklers

0' Glory get us underway! And manage to not give away the ball until about 6 kicks in!

7' Glory hit the post, one of the closest-without-going-in I've ever seen. Cleared for a corner, which was then cleared easily.

15' Wind must be affecting the game, Central Coast player gets blown over by it just in front of the box. Maybe some light contact I couldn't see from my seat.

16' Free kick shot in hard, Feely palm blocks it and it's cleared

28' PERTH GLORY GOAL!! Corner whipped in by Kilkenny, drops right onto the last man on the back post and Chianese headers it into the bottom right corner Glory 1-0 Mariners

39' Chianese gets a yellow after holding a Mariners player back and toppling him over.

43' Weird moment as Keogh gets pinged for something, and ends up giving a short piggy back to a Central Coast defender after almost wearing him as a hat.

44' Kenny shown a yellow card after some regular animated shouting. He sat down and was quiet for all of about 15 seconds before he was back up and yelling.

HALF TIME A few moments of composure from both teams, Glory definitely looked the better of the two (I'm a tad bias though), and it shows on the scoreboard. Glory 1-0 Mariners The Glory Dancers are doing some choreography to the worst version of 'Livin on a Prayer' I've heard.

46' Aand we're back! Can Central Coast actually do something this half to give us a chance at the boring draw we were all expecting? Or can Glory actually manage to close out another win?

53' Glory substitute Andrieu off Wilson on

62' Glory Goal! Some heroics from Keogh in the box, then his shot deflects off the post and the keeper can't do anything as Chianese slots his 2nd of the night. Glory 2-0 Mariners

65' Double sub for Mariners Bahagiar for Paine and I missed the other one. Glory sub Italiano off for Harold

72' Central Coast Goal! Hoole slots a stunning shot from just outside the box, curls into the top-ish of the right hand side. No chance for Feely to save Glory 2-1 Mariners

74' Glory Goal disallowed by the VAR in the strangest decision I've seen yet from that dumpster fire. A Central Coast player went down in the box, but I didn't catch the replay to see any contact. Boos raining down from the crown Still Glory 2-1 Mariners

76' Glory player gets a Yellow after arguing with the ref about the shittest VAR decision in history. 2 weeks in a row for bonkers calls from the upstairs ref at Glory games

82' Mariners Sub, Baro off for Rose

88' Keogh dragged down just outside the box, Ref puts some marking spray on Xavi's shoes.

89' Glory Goal! The spray on Xavi's shoes did something, he sinks the free kick near post. Beautiful shot. VAR can't take that one away! Glory 3-1 Mariners

90' 7 minutes of added time, to go with the 3 goals tonight scored by number 7's

90' something. Attendance 7277. Another Glory free kick on the edge of the area, eventually goes over the back for a corner

FULL TIME All done here at NIB, Glory 3 to Mariners 1. Game could've (and should've) ended higher. A few refereeing errors will leave the fans with a bad taste, but a good result for the Glory in the run up to finals. Glory looked better, more dangerous, had more intent etc. and deserved the win.