Semi-pro giant-killers pull off another upset against A-League team

Australian soccer’s giant-killers from Heidelberg United did not only topple another top-flight team on Tuesday night, they trounced them.

There were raucous celebrations from the Warriors at Olympic Village after they overpowered A-League team Wellington Phoenix 4-0 in the quarter-final of the Australia Cup – Football Australia’s version of England’s FA Cup.

Heidelberg United celebrate their quarter-final win over Wellington Phoenix in the Australia Cup. Credit: Getty Images

The NPL Victoria team’s quarter-final win came a week after their 3-0 victory over another A-League outfit, the Western Sydney Wanderers. It also set two new competition records, going down as the biggest win by a state league side against an A-League rival and becoming the first time state league team to record four “cup-set” wins over A-League clubs.

Goals from Max Bisetto and Asahi Yokokawa early in the second half followed a Wellington own-goal in the first half. Chok Dau delivered the crowd-pleasing fourth goal in the 85th minute.

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