After a lone win in four games, Western Sydney Wonders and Tomer Hemed came back today (Wednesday) at noon to win 1: 2 over Adelaide United from the top of the Australian league. The Israeli striker, who started the game on the bench, came in as a substitute and played 17 minutes in the ranks of the winners.
Adelaide actually started great and climbed to an early lead from a Craig Goodwin goal with a great free kick in the eighth minute, but the sequel was from Western Sydney: Rami Najarin equalized (26) after a great depth ball from Keanu Bacus and set up the half, and Philip Kankar completed the turnaround up close A quarter of an hour from the end, two minutes after Hemed’s entry.
Following the win, Hemed and Western Sydney climbed to eighth place with 18 points, just three distances from Sydney which is in sixth place leading to the playoffs. In addition, the striker and his teammates have one game less than Sydney. By the way, on Sunday Western Sydney will meet Adelaide again, this time at home.