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VICTORIAN PREMIER LEAGUE MATCH REPORT |
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Hume City overwhelm Preston Lions in goal frenzy
Sunday
19 July 2009
(Tugrul Ozdemir) - A great team performance by Hume City
FC provided them with an eight-nil thrashing over Preston
Lions at B.T Conner Reserve.
After two decent performances against Richmond and
Oakleigh, Preston has gone back to its woeful ways as they
got taught another football lesson by championship
contenders Hume City.
With a double to Serkan Oksuz, and single goals to Tony
Sterjovski, Ross Thompson, Andy Vlahos, Alfonso Opazo,
Zoran Petrevski and Burak Kocak, Hume City has increased
their goal difference to 21 goals.
But to Damir Salcin’s credit, the score line could’ve been
a lot more as he managed to pull of some decent saves.
From the start of the whistle Hume City always looked
threatening as the inexperienced Preston line-up looked
intimidated by their opponents.
The flood gates opened on the ninth minute of play. Zoran
Petrevski got bought down and won a free kick 25 meters
out, straight in front of goal. Tony Sterjovski got behind
the ball and easily placed the ball into the bottom left
hand corner to give his team an early lead.
Hume continued to dominate play as they almost doubled
their lead with attempts on goal by Zoran Petrevski and
Ross Thompson, but great saves by Damir Salcin kept the
score line at one-nil for the time being.
Halfway through the first half Ross Thompson doubled their
lead. Brendan Beni played the ball to Ross, who twisted
and turned then took a cracking long range shot and left
Damir Salcin stunned.
Captain/Coach, and arguably Hume City’s most prolific
player, Andy Vlahos, got his name on the score sheet with
42 minutes played. Tansel Baser provided a well timed pass
to Vlahos, who got in front of his defender, on a tight
angle he chipped Damir Salcin, and gave his team another
reason to celebrate.
With the first half about to end, youngster Caner Ucarli
and Tansel Baser almost got a fourth, but due to some
desperate defending the score line was left at three-nil.
It was the same story in the second half as Hume City had
total dominance of the game. Alfonso Opazo had an early
attempt, agonizingly go wide, but 15 minutes into the
second half, he got Hume’s fourth.
Zoran Petrevski got on the end of a miss kick from a
Preston defender, held the ball up and with his back to
the goals gave an amazing through ball, and with a
well-timed run Opazo got to the ball first, beat the
keeper, and dug Preston’s whole deeper and deeper.
Ross Thompson almost got his double with a long range free
kick as his shot on goal smashed the post, but nothing
could’ve saved Preston as Zoran Petrevski got onto the
score sheet with 71 minutes gone.
Next to the halfway line, Ross gave a pin-point long ball
into the penalty spot, and with a mixture of dismal
defending and a bit of luck, Zoran toe-poked the ball into
the back of the net to score his ninth for the season.
Hume were continuing their pressure on goal as Zoran was
denied by the cross bar, and Ross forced Damir into a
great save with another long range shot.
But the goals kept on coming as Serkan Oksuz scored his
team’s sixth goal of the game. Serkan caught the defence
napping as he bet the offside trap, got one-on-one with
the keeper, and easily strolled around Damir to slot the
ball into the back of the net.
With minutes remaining before the final whistle, youngster
Burak Kocak got involved in the action. Michael Bosevski
provided the cross, Zoran Petrevski flicked the ball with
his head to the back post were the ball was met by Burak
who hit the ball first time and scored his first goal in
the Victorian Premier League.
Deep into extra time Serkan Oksuz got his double. Serkan
got onto a loose ball, dribbled past his defender, played
a one-two with Burak, got one-on-one with the keeper, had
his first attempt on goal saved, but the ball rebounded
into his leg and it rolled in for a goal.
The humiliating defeat ended there, as Hume demolished
Preston and sent out a warning to all other Victorian
Premier League teams.
Next week Hume City host Green Gully who sit outside the
top five due to goal difference, and Preston will try to
gain some respect back against quality side, Dandenong
Thunder. (Please note error in the sentence, Lions will
face Sunshine Georgies not Dandenong).
Preston Lions line-up: D. Salcin, M. Miskas (V.
Kostadinovski 50’), B. Mickovski, I. Kolevski, R.
Najdovski, M. Hana, B. Georgioski, A. Dranov, C. Jones, B.
Tenovski, K. Coceski. Subs not used: A. Stojanovski, P.
Mitreski, J. Dolevski
Yellow Cards: B. Tenovski, B. Georgioski, C. Jones
Hume City line-up: L. Acevski, Z. Petrevski, I.
Erdogan, S. Pir, T. Baser (M. Bosevski 73’), R. Thompson,
B. Beni, - C. Ucarli, A. Opazo, Toni Sterjovski (B. Kocak
66’), A. Vlahos(S .Oksuz 66’) Subs not used: A. Hrehoresin,
T. Sumbul.
Goal Scorers: T. Sterjovski 9’, R. Thompson 24’, A.
Vlahos 42’, A. Opazo 60’, Z. Petrevski 71’, S. Oksuz 86’-
90+3, B. Kocak 90+1’
Man of Match: Ross Thompson
Crowd: 500 (unofficial) at BT Connor Reserve |
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