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STALLIONS DOMINATE LOCAL DERBY
 The
Marconi Stallions have turned in arguably their most complete
performance of the season, with a 5-1 rout of the Bonnyrigg White
Eagles on Saturday night.
The
Stallions looked on the ball from the outset and didn't have to wait
long to get on the scoresheet.
In
the 5th minute Ben Vidaic picked out Ali Al-Hilfi out wide on the
left,with the Stallions’ Iraqi import droving a powerful effort across
the face of goal from an acute angle, to open the scoring.
The
Stallions nearly doubled their lead – via a swift counter-attack – as
a Bonnyrigg set-piece in the attacking third broke down. Kader Toure’s
speed had the White Eagles defenders on the back-foot as the Cote
D’Ivoire import played a defence splitting pass into the path of
Alexander Canak. The former Liverpool Bossy midfielder had only Akbal
to beat, though the White Eagles shot-stopper stood tall to thwart a
certain goal.
The
Stallions did double their advantage on 38’ minutes when a lapse in
concentration by the White Eagles central defence allowed Toure the
chance to sneak in and superbly slot past Akbal in goals.
The
Stallions came out firing in the opening stages of the second half.
Al-Hilfi’s delicate touches, mixed with Toure’s trickery, twice
presented the vistors with goal-scoring opportunities inside of the
opening 3’ minutes.
Not
long after, they put the game beyond doubt when Vamara Diarra was the
quickest to re-act during a goalmouth scramble.
A
blunder in the Bonnyrigg defence led to the Stallions fourth goal,
with captain Nahuel Arrarte on hand to coolly lob the ball over an
exposed Ali Akbal.
Bonnyrigg got a goal back in the 73rd minute when a poorly dealt with
free-kick by the Stallions defence allowed Simonovic a clear shot on
goal from the edge of the penalty-area.
The win leaves the
Stallions entrenched in the top five, with Coach Lee Sterrey confident
his side can improve even further.
"Very
happy with the win – to come here and get a win is fantastic,
especially to score five goals in the process,” he said.
“The
Club has really supported me this season with the ideas I put forward.
We haven’t gone out of our budget, though we have managed to bring a
number of players into the team that we believe can really kick-start
their careers, and also help this club win some silverware."
Match Stats
Bonnyrigg White Eagles 1 (Milorad Simonovic 73’)
Marconi Stallions 5 (Ali Al-Hilfi 5’ 85’, Kader Toure 38’, Vamara
Diarra 51’, Nahuel Arrarte 66’)
Bonnyrigg White Eagles: 23.Ali Akbal; 5.Mark D’Alessandro,
6.Ilkay Gurbuz , 7.Nikola Zonjic, 8.Daniel Willoughby, 10.Fredrick
Graham (14.Domenic Cutri 54’), 11.Almir Dizdaric, 17.Milorad Simonovic,
18.Tayfun Devrimol (C), 19.Antonio Faria, 20.Milan Zoric
Substitutes Not Used: 1.Nenad Vekic; 3.Drazen Janjic, 4.David
Petrovic, 13.Nathan Rivera
Marconi Stallions: 22.James Chronopoulos; 2.Wade Oostendorp,
6.Vuko Tomasevic, 8.Alexander Canak (15.Tim McGowan 72’), 10.Ali Al-Hilfi,
7.Kader Toure, 17.Vamara Diarra, 13.Ben Vidaic, 23.Christopher Nunes,
26.Nahuel Arrarte (C) (18.Graziano Trimboli, 66’), 30.Andrea Merenda
(4.Umut Tokdogan 58’)
Substitutes Not Used: 11.Matt Gordon, 20.Cem Akili
-with Soccer NSW
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