Victory claim first treble
Melbourne Victory became the first team in the A-League to claim the treble after beating Adelaide United in the A-League Grand Final.
Victory won the A-League pre-season cup and also the premiership after topping the league ladder on goal difference.
This was Melbourne's second championship making it the most successful club in the competition so far.
Adelaide and Victory join the Central Coast Mariners in the group of clubs that have reached the grand final twice.
This was the A-League's fourth grand final and the third one to be decided by an odd goal. The losing teams have never scored in a grand final.
The win capped Victory's 15th win of the season for Adelaide it was the eighth loss of the season. Victory lost seven games in the season.
Next season there will be ten teams in the league.
This week we take a look at the match scores for the 2008/9 season and their frequency.
Scoreline | Frequency |
---|---|
0 - 0 | 4 |
0 - 1 | 7 |
0 - 2 | 4 |
0 - 3 | 1 |
1 - 0 | 11 |
1 - 1 | 9 |
1 - 2 | 4 |
1 - 4 | 1 |
2 - 0 | 7 |
2 - 1 | 10 |
2 - 2 | 4 |
2 - 3 | 2 |
2 - 4 | 2 |
3 - 0 | 5 |
3 - 1 | 2 |
3 - 2 | 3 |
3 - 3 | 3 |
3 - 4 | 1 |
4 - 0 | 3 |
4 - 1 | 2 |
4 - 2 | 2 |
5 - 0 | 1 |
5 - 2 | 1 |
6 - 1 | 1 |
So in 90 matches the most popular scoreline was 1-nil with eleven occurrences followed by 2-1 with ten. So both scorelines have the home teams winning.
However, in third place is the one-all draw with nine matches finishing with that scoreline.
If you combine 1-0 and 0-1 then in total 18 matches were decided by an odd goal.
Away teams were therefore more likely to win 0-1 than any other scoreline.