Canberra Juventus earned their fifth win of the Capital Premier League season as they eased to a 3-0 victory over White Eagles at Woden Park in the rearranged Round 16 match.
The win, secured by a trio of second-half goals, moved Juventus to within a point of Wagga City Wanderers currently in fifth place on the table, as the duo battle to be the ‘best of the rest’ with the top-four places in the CPL table already locked up by the teams occupying them.
It took Juventus quite some time to break down the Eagles but, once the visitors had netted twice within two minutes just past the sixty-minute mark, the destination of the result, and Juventus’ second victory in succession was rarely in doubt.
Tony Madaffari set Juventus on the way with his second goal for the club, netting in the 62nd minute, before midfield dynamo Adrian Macor doubled the lead two minutes afterwards with his fourth goal of the season.
Striker Nick Roufogalis completed the scoring with eighteen minutes remaining, bagging the third on the night, as Juventus moved onto seventeen points on the league table.
Eagles meanwhile remain rooted to the bottom of the league, inside the relegation place, having only won twice during the year. They are two points behind West Canberra Wanderers with the possibility that relegation to the State League could follow for whomever ends bottom.
RESULTS
ROUND 16
Tuesday 13 August
White Eagles 0 Canberra Juventus 3 (Madaffari 62’, A. Macor 64’, Roufogalis 72’)
TABLE
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | ||
| 1 | Queanbeyan City | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 61 | 9 | +52 | 45 |
| 2 | Belconnen United | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 57 | 19 | +38 | 37 |
| 3 | ANU FC | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 49 | 22 | +27 | 37 |
| 4 | Brindabella Blues | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 44 | 28 | +16 | 35 |
| 5 | Wagga City Wanderers | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 34 | 45 | -11 | 18 |
| 6 | Canberra Juventus | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 20 | 43 | -23 | 17 |
| 7 | West Canberra Wanderers | 18 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 72 | -54 | 8 |
| 8 | White Eagles | 17 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 56 | -46 | 6 |
TOP SCORERS
24: Nico ABOT (Queanbeyan City)
17: Jack GIBSON (ANU FC)
11: Dustin WELLS (Belconnen United)
10: Jake BISHOP (Belconnen United), Abderrahim DEALLAHI (Queanbeyan City), Curtis SCHAEFFER (Brindabella Blues)
9: Hassan ALNUWAYSIR (ANU FC)
8: Morris KADZOLA (Wagga City Wanderers)
7: Abraham KEMP (Belconnen United), David REITSTATTER (Belconnen United), Riley WILLIAMS (Brindabella Blues), Ollie WITRZENS (Brindabella Blues), Thomas YONGAI (Wagga City Wanderers)
6: Babin PAUDYAL (Belconnen United), Zac STEELE (Wagga City Wanderers)
5: Harry BILLINGTON (Belconnen United), Baxter DONOHOE (West Canberra Wanderers), Nathan DUCK (Canberra Juventus), Nahuel GUERRERO (Queanbeyan City), Ethan KRUG (ANU FC), Virgil MOUTAUD (West Canberra Wanderers), Own GOALS
4: Jacob HART (ANU FC), Misko NAUMOSKI (Queanbeyan City), Mohammed YANSANEH (Queanbeyan City)
3: Gabriel AYUEL (Queanbeyan City), Cuneyt CAGLAR (Brindabella Blues), Zac CHADWICK (ANU FC), Liam CRISTOFANI (West Canberra Wanderers), Jayde JAMES-WARD (Belconnen United), Kade LYONS (Wagga City Wanderers), Adrian MACOR (Canberra Juventus), Alasdair MOORE (ANU FC), Michael NELSON (Brindabella Blues), Marko SAVKOVIC (Queanbeyan City), Luke VALLONE (Belconnen United), Tao WANG (ANU FC), Henry WILKS (Brindabella Blues)
2: Deng ALEER DENG (Brindabella Blues), Seth BONNET (Queanbeyan City), Adam BROOKS (Canberra Juventus), Frazer BURNS (Canberra Juventus), Bryce FALEPAU (Wagga City Wanderers), Leo HADLEY (ANU FC), Samson LUCAS (Wagga City Wanderers), Braulio MELO (White Eagles), Max MOTTL (ANU FC), Vasko PETROVSKI (Queanbeyan City), Steven SRBINOSKI (Queanbeyan City)
1: Wyatt ADAM (Wagga City Wanderers), Riley ANGELOSANTE (White Eagles), David CARDER (Belconnen United), Tom COSENTINI (Canberra Juventus), Lachlan DENLEY (White Eagles), Daniel FELIZZI (Brindabella Blues), Daniel FOX (West Canberra Wanderers), Marcus GRZIC (White Eagles), Clayton GUNNING (West Canberra Wanderers), Josh HICKMAN (White Eagles), Jack JANKE (Belconnen United), Bojan JANKULOSKI (West Canberra Wanderers), Deakin JEWELL (Belconnen United), Steven KRESKAS (Queanbeyan City), Jiachan LANG (ANU FC), Owen LEARMONTH (Brindabella Blues),Tony MADDAFARI (Canberra Juventus), Goran MILUTINOVIC (White Eagles), Tim NGUYEN (Belconnen United), Jacob OCHIENG (Wagga City Wanderers), Maxwell PREST (Wagga City Wanderers), Fahad RAMADHAN (Wagga City Wanderers), Nicholas ROUFAGALIS (Canberra Juventus), Mark SHIELDS (Queanbeyan City), Nathan SINGH, Naser SMOQY (Wagga City Wanderers), Ethan STAMATIS (West Canberra Wanderers), Nashwan SULAIMAN (Wagga City Wanderers), Owen STEPHENSON (West Canberra Wanderers), Jai TEIN (Canberra Juventus), Reece UPTON (White Eagles), Liam VICKERS (White Eagles), Isaac WEEKLEY (Brindabella Blues)
