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Canberra United have added spice to the A-League Women premiership and finals races after defeating Western United 3-0.

The club was deducted three points for an illegal substitution last month, but Football Australia has found in its favour after an appeal.

Brisbane forward Shea Connors has kept her side's A-League Women finals hopes alive with a superb display in the 2-0 win over second-placed Western United.

Western United have consolidated top spot in the A-League Women's competition with a club record ALW score in a 6-0 away mauling of Newcastle.

"This is a speed hump. But we are in a position where everything is still in our hands."

Western United have won their first A-League Men game in five outings, inspired by Noah Botic's first-half double to beat Newcastle 3-1 away from home.

The Newcastle Jets had a chance to push into the A-League top four, instead they stumbled to the cellar dwellers

"The opposition will have a strategy - whether it is to come out and press us, whether it is to sit back and play on the counter. We have to be good enough to solve the problem."

The Russian president blames the West and its society of "degenerates" for the war in Ukraine, suspends his country's participation in a nuclear arms reduction treaty and calls "grovelling" sanctioned oligarchs home. Here are the key moments from Putin's state of the nation address.