Veart leads Adelaide to upset

The inaugural season of A-League kicked off on Friday night, with Adelaide United recording a 1-0 upset victory over the Newcastle United Jets at EnergyAustralia Stadium.

The away side dominated the early running against their star-studded opponents, who include Ned Zelic, Jade North, Nick Carle and Ante Milicic in their impressive ranks, and managed to net a deserved goal in the first-half through veteran striker Carl Veart (pictured).

Veart launched his head onto a cross from skipper Ross Aloisi to beat Jets' goalkeeper Liam Reddy convincingly with what was the competition's first ever goal, and in the end, proved to be the matchwinner.

The Jets rallied and had chances to equalise, only to see most of their efforts saved by a desperate and determined Adelaide defence and goalkeeping.

Adelaide soaked all of Newcastle's raids, and would have felt they themselves deserved more goals, with Veart and Aloisi controlling the play, and keeping the ball in the Jets' half for most of the game.

Despite the best efforts of Zelic and Carle to create openings for their forward line led by Milicic, the veteran striker's few opportunities lacked timing and the 'killer touch'.

Adelaide coach John Kosmina was delighted with his team's display.

"I was very impressed," he said. "Although I thought we should have got more goals, it was a fantastic game."

He reserved special praise for goalscorer Veart.

"He's an intelligent footballer," Kosmina added to Fox Sports. "I am delighted with his display."

The match was a positive start for the eagerly-awaited A-League.

After a nervous start, both teams were determined to deliver attacking football, and had it not been for some tremendous defence and goalkeeping, the final scoreline would have included more goals. In the end, the better team on the night took home the competition’s first three points.


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I saw parts of the game and boy Newcastles defence is shocking.
13,000 people, not bad, actually it looked much more and i was pleased. Good start. Perth is playing right now in progress.

What a performance! I'll have goals up soon guys!

Interesting to see the upcoming Melbourne victory home matches. Their ethnic supporters have said they won't support the team due to reasons for their premier league NSW team not making it and A-league not wanting them.

I have heard that the Melbourne people aren't that up for the A-League ... unlike Sydney but then that could be because I live in Sydney.


I thought this was a good game. It started off brilliantly, especially after it was predicted to be so one-sided and it ended up going the other way. The teams really went for it. I found the first half more exciting than the second, but that could just be me and I was starting to get tired

No your right the 1st half was much better.
Too many chances missed though, still the players look far behind the likes of Deane, Yorke, Zelic and Zdrilic. We'll see.

Brilliant!! Excellent start for the boys.

Your uploading the goals djibrilliant?

that was a pretty good goal from adelaide,

Oi djbrilliant, are u gonna upload all of the A-league goals, cause if u do that will be awesome,
cheers vossy

Check in the Football 'Soccer' Video section.

Just got my tickets for the Qld Roar game....

Can't wait

Packed house I reckon.

I've heard 9,000 tickets already sold???

You heard anything Djibrilliant? I hope we sellout 14,500 people