Melbourne City have suffered an agonising night in their Asian Champions League Elite push, a stoppage-time, comedy of defensive errors proving no laughing matter as they succumbed to a 1-0 defeat to Vissel Kobe in Japan. City had looked set to grab a well-deserved first point in their second match of the campaign against the Japanese champions following their 2-0 home defeat to another J1 League powerhouse, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, a fortnight earlier. Even when the ball was worked through towards striker Koya Yuruki, it appeared that City keeper Patrick Beach would get to the ball before him and clear his lines. They competed for more than 90 minutes and it just hurts the way we conceded that goal in the last minute." Hiroshima and FC Seoul are also on four points with Gangwon FC, Chengdu Rongcheng and Buriram United a further point behind.