Holly McNamara's late strike has given Melbourne City a come-from-behind 2-1 win over arch-rivals and A-League Women leaders Melbourne Victory.
City trailed at the break after their former forward Rhianna Pollicina opened the scoring for Victory in her first start against her old side.
But a second-half own-goal from Victory defender Claudia Bunge and McNamara's neat finish in the 84th minute gave City all three points at AAMI Park on Tuesday.
The result meant City (3-1-1) jumped from ninth to third on a congested table with games in hand on all of their rivals, while Victory (5-0-4) remain top for now.
Michael Matricciani's side are unbeaten in their past five derbies against Victory.
"It's an absolutely amazing feeling," City midfielder Aideen Keane told Paramount+ after playing a key role in her team's triumph.
"A derby is just such a massive game and it means so much to all of us, so to win that one is really, really important.
"At half-time we came in knowing that we had dominated the first half and we knew that our chances were coming.
"We just had to keep going at them and we knew that the goals would come."
City had six shots to their rivals' one in a relatively tame first half but Pollicina's 32nd-minute strike gave Victory the lead.
Pollicina received the ball unmarked in the box, turned past the approaching Rebekah Stott and scored off the inside of the near post from close range.
She ran straight to Victory coach Jeff Hopkins to celebrate her fifth goal of the campaign, which put her equal-second on the ALW scoring chart behind teammate Kennedy White.
But City were level in the 65th minute when Bunge turned the ball in to her own net, messing up her clearance after Keane drove past Alana Jancevski and cut the ball back from the byline.
Doubt arose over whether Keane kept the ball in play, but the equaliser was allowed to stand.
"I knew where the ball was, you know, that's why I put it in there," Keane said.
"They were always going to appeal for something. They've just conceded a goal and no one wants that.
"But it's whole ball, whole line and I knew exactly where it was and where it needed to be."
McNamara almost fired City ahead moments later but missed the target from close range.
She found the winner six minutes from time when latching on to a well-worked Leticia McKenna free kick.
McNamara took a touch and fired a left-foot shot past Victory goalkeeper Courtney Newbon.
"It's something that we had identified coming in and it was what we thought we could get a bit of success out of," Keane said.
"Clearly it worked, so definitely credit to the coaching staff for that one."
