Melbourne Victory

Victory was unable to find a breakthrough at AAMI Park, keeping a fourth straight clean sheet and extending its unbeaten league run to 10 games. Tony Popovic's ...

It sits third on the table, three points behind Western United. I’m not sure exactly what to say about tonight, things just weren’t happening for us, we weren’t playing our normal game so it’s a bit disappointing.” “It was a really frustrating night for us.

Melbourne Victory Head Coach Tony Popovic felt his side showed signs of fatigue in Tuesday night's 0-0 draw with Brisbane Roar.

We kept probing, but we probably looked a little bit flat today for me, but I think that’s going to happen at times, if you score first then the game changes, they don’t have anything to hold onto anymore and then it becomes easier in terms of the spaces that are out there.” It’s been a lot of games in a very short period, four games in a short period, but I think we just needed to score first. “Our players, the fitness is there, they’re backing up a lot more often now than what we had early in the season.

A-League Men's: Adelaide United pipped Sydney FC at the death in Kogarah, meanwhile Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory shared the points at AAMI Park.

Melbourne Victory have been held to a frustrating 0-0 draw by Brisbane Roar, spurning a chance to close the gap on the A-League Men top two.

"But I don't think they bombarded our goal with many chances and we had some great chances of our own and probably could have snuck a winner in the end." Victory had a series of shots blocked in the 17th minute but from there, Brisbane had the better of the rare first-half chances. "It's been a lot of games in a very short period, four games in a short period but I think we just needed to score first, in the first half.

Brisbane's A-League Men finals hopes are all but extinguished but coach Warren Moon expects a grittier outfit to throw everything at their final few games.

We're not at this stage, but ... we've been clear with our messaging. I've been asking it and whether everyone has been getting the message I don't know," he said. "It's clear with the squad I picked, the people that travelled, there's a lot of mobility, a lot of work rate and a lot of desire to do well defensively for the team as well as do well with the ball and that's critical for us as a club." "We're going to go out and try to win every game we play." "We're not happy with where we're at: we want to be pushing and challenging for finals. "They're able to work hard for longer periods and when they fatigue we brought young players on, more mobile players to continue the good work and keep our defensive structure and just work hard.

Brisbane coach Warren Moon has indicated he didn't get the work rate he wanted from certain players earlier...