Melbourne Victory's Amy Jackson,right,celebrates a goal at CB Smith Reserve.Credit:Getty Images
City boss Rado Vidosic offered no excuses for the performance but pointed out that he was missing several key players.
"We had that one-on-one with the goalkeeper,and if we scored the first goal who knows how this game ends. There is not a great deal of difference in qualities ... they capitalised on some of our mistakes,"he said.
As Vidosic pointed out,it was City who had the first real chance of the game as early as the third minute when their debutant striker Harriet Withers was denied by Victory keeper Gabriela Garton,who got a hand to deflect the ball just wide of the post after Kayla Ann Morrison slipped and presented Withers with the opportunity.
But Victory quickly began to assert themselves. De Vanna drove wide in the 11th minute then went off on a surging run before finding winger Catherine Zimmerman,whose cross was headed away by American compatriot Sam Johnson.