Adelaide send Villa home winless David Villa will go back to New York winless after a late Marcelo Carrusca penalty gave Adelaide United a 2-1 win over Melbourne City at AAMI Park on Friday night. Patrick Kisnorbo put City ahead early in the game but it was cancelled out by an equally as impressive header from Bruce Djite before half-time. Adelaide United coach Josep Gombau brought on 19-year-old Bruce Kamau late in the game and the youngster won the spot-kick that Carrusca converted to seal the three points. In Villa's final games of his A-League loan stint before linking with his contracted club New York City, Melbourne started brightly. Just as they did in last week's derby loss against rivals Melbourne Victory, City looked likely to open the scoring. They almost did just six minutes in when Villa's volley was smashed towards goal by Damien Duff but Adelaide goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic parried his shot on to the post. It did not take long until City eventually took the lead, with Patrick Kisnorbo thumping in a header from Duff's corner after just nine minutes. Villa looked a lot livelier this week and forced Galekovic into a good save after making a fool of Tarek Elrich shortly after. Jonatan Germano, making his first appearance of the season for City, was forced off on 27 minutes after he went down clutching his left hamstring and was replaced by youngster Ben Garuccio. It then went from bad to worse for City when Djite converted a thumping header of his own from Awer Mabil's lethal cross to level the scores going into the break. City piled on the pressure early in the second period just like they did in the first, winning a number of corners and free-kicks that came to no avail. Carrusca almost emulated City's former international marquee Orlando Engelaar with a sensational lob from half-way but his attempt was slightly off-target to the relief of Andrew Redmayne. Villa was causing problems down the left side and forced Galekovic into another fine save but David Williams put the rebound over the crossbar from right in front of goal. Kamau was causing his own problems for United after coming on for Mabil and on 79 minutes he was taken out by Redmayne and referee Chris Beath pointed to the penalty spot. Argentinean Carrusca stood up and smashed it past the City goalkeeper to take the three points back to Adelaide. United coach Gombau admitted it was a tough test but praised his players for the turn around. "I think we are doing well and the players know what they need to do at every single moment in the game," Gombau said. Other teams are good and today we had a lot of difficulties because Melbourne made a good game but we won this game and we are satisfied. Melbourne City boss John van't Schip was disappointed with the result after a much better showing from his side. "Definitely they showed more strength compared to the game against (Victory) we were not there second half," van't Schip said. It was from out of nothing they get a penalty and it's a shame. Instead of working hard that you get a point you end up with empty hands again.