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STALLIONS TAKE A POINT
The Marconi Stallions were forced to
settle for a draw, after a hard-fought encounter against
Penrith-Nepean on Saturday night.
With the Stallions, looking to
secure their first win of the season, up against a visiting side
missing key players, it was always going to be a scrapping affair and
much like their first four games, Marconi certainly had their chances.
After the match Stallions boss Dave
Barrett was remaining optimistic, confident a win is not far away.
“When you are fighting for your life things don’t always go your way,
but I was pleased with the effort, intensity and other good aspects of
the performance even though we didn’t get the final result we wanted,”
he said.
“I thought Chris Nunes, in his first game back since returning from
overseas, was very good and overall I thought we were just a bit
unlucky in front of goal.
“The game was pretty close even though we had three of four good
chances, but we’ll continue to work very hard and I’m sure we’ll get
the results.”
In
the 8th minute a thundering free-kick from Vuko Tomasevic was spilt by
Daniel Schwarzer in goal and Tallan Martin from the follow-up narrowly
shot wide thanks to a slight deviation.
In the 19’ minute Penrith’s reply didn’t really trouble Marconi as
Nathan Ralph’s cross finished against the side netting, but only two
minutes later Marconi’s best two players combined to really test
Schwarzer – younger brother of Socceroo Mark – in goal: Stefan
Donevski superbly found Nunes who fired home a thunderbolt that
Schwarzer brilliantly turned away for a corner.
In the 37th minute a powerful shot by Nunes narrowly missed its
intended target and in the 39th minute it was Nunes who found Donevski
but, once again, Schwarzer showed why there are two talented
goalkeepers in the family.
On the stroke of half-time Luke Boyd for the visitors shot narrowly
wide and players went into the break after a scoreless 45th minutes.
In the 60th minute Marconi’s best two players were at it again when
Nunes set-up Donevski, but his shot was narrowly off target thanks to
a Juric deflection.
In the 75th minute Stuart, from an acute angle, hit the crossbar for
the visitors and in the 89’ minute a Donevski shot was almost headed
in by Kanyilmaz for an own goal but once again Schwarzer superbly
saved.
Marconi Stallions:
Cem Akili, Wade Oostendorp, Vuko Tomasevic, Jason Trifiro (Sean
Mitchell 58’) Nathan Moulds, Matthew Gordon, Ante Deur, Nahuel Arrarte,
Chris Nunes (Ben Bronneberg 90’), Stefan Donevski, Tallan Martin (Glen
Trifiro 64’).
Coach:
David Barrett
Penrith-Nepean United:
Daniel Schwarzer, Ante Juric, Carl McNaughton (Devrim Huseyin
53’), Ozgur Kanyilmaz, Nick Tsattalios, William
Stuart, Javier Mancino (Angelo Martino 92’), Luke Boyd, Michael Cromar,
Nathan Ralph, Tayfun Buyukkopru (Ryan O’Shea 76’).
Coach:
Abbas Saad
Courtesy Soccer NSW
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