A-League: Wanderers maintain the momentum

Western Sydney Wanderers turned up the pressure on A-League leaders Brisbane Roar with a 2-0 win at Perth Glory.

Goals in either half from Mateo Poljak and Tomi Juric secured Wanderers the win as they moved to within four points of Brisbane, who face in-form Melbourne Heart on Sunday looking to bounce back from last week's home loss to Newcastle Jets.

Staying four points behind the Wanderers in third place are Melbourne Victory after they edged a seven-goal thriller against Adelaide United 4-3.

Adelaide forward Sergio Cirio who struck all three of his side's goals, netting in the third, 45th and 83rd minutes, but he still ended on the losing side as Victory took the spoils with strikes from Guilherme Finkler (15 and 57), Archie Thompson (66) and Kosta Barbarouses (75)

Also on Saturday, Alessandro Del Piero was on the scoresheet as Sydney FC won 2-0 at Newcastle, the former Italy star netting a 73rd-minute penalty after Sasa Ognenovski had broken the deadlock on the hour.

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Hernandez: Comment ´nothing to do with RVP´

Manchester United forward Javier Hernandez has refuted claims he delivered a social-media jibe at team-mate Robin van Persie.

Van Persie was quoted blaming his team-mates for a lack of space after their 2-0 loss to Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League in mid-week.

The Mexico international posted a message on photo-sharing app Instagram that read, “Without your team-mates you can’t be somebody in football, always be thankful.”

But Hernandez used another social networking tool, Twitter, to banish speculation the post was directed at his Dutch team-mate.

“Before I go to sleep, I need to put this cause things get a little out of context…” Hernandez said.

“Why do the press always take my comments out of context, my comment on Instagram had nothing to do with RVP. We are great teammates working for the same goal, the TEAM! & Cause the team isn’t doing as well as we’d like everyone just wants to make everything look like a bad thing!”

Van Persie’s post-match comments sparked plenty of furore, including from former United midfielder Johnny Giles who labelled the goalscorer a ‘prat’.