Perfect City cruise past Jets in ALW

Melbourne City have gone top of the A-League Women ladder with a 5-1 thumping of the Newcastle Jets at Casey Fields. 

Making it three wins from three to start their campaign, Dario Vidosic's side took a comfortable lead into halftime thanks to an own goal and strikes from Kaitlyn Torpey and Bryleeh Henry. 

Tara Andrews grabbed one back for the Jets 20 minutes from time, only for Caitlin Karic's first ALW goal and a late Emina Ekic penalty to seal it. 

The win sets up a top-of-the-table Victorian derby with Western United for City next Saturday, while the Jets will look to rebound when they return to Melbourne to face Victory on Sunday. 

"It's awesome that's where we're headed," Ekic told 10Play. 

"We want an undefeated season. We come in every day with that mindset that no matter who we're facing, we're just ready to play."

It took City just seven minutes to open the scoring, Torpey seizing on an attempted clearance and looping a long-range bomb over the head of Jets keeper Georgina Worth. 

It was a sucker punch for a Jets' side that was having some luck with pressing the hosts, a tactic which created attempts for Ashlee Brodigan and Lucy Johnson either side of Torpey's opener.

However, their promising start fading, the Jets then found themselves in a bigger hole in the 27th minute when Worth spilled an Ekic corner into her own net to make it 2-0.  

Henry added further pain three minutes later when, after Maria Jose Rojas and Ekic had efforts blocked, she fired home from close range to ensure a three-goal lead for City at the break. 

Not giving up despite the deficit, the Jets continued to push after halftime and - despite losing US forward Murphy Agnew to a knock three minutes prior - pegged one back through an Andrews header with 20 minutes to go.

But City responded with a rapid one-two punch - substitute Karic sending a first-time chip over Worth in the 78th before Ekic won and converted a penalty two minutes later. 

"We were up 3-0 and we were upset in the locker room because we weren't playing the way we wanted to play," Ekic said.

"We want to play good football, we want to move the ball, we want to keep it. And that didn't happen today, but we managed to get the result."