Canberra Olympic opened up a four-point gap at the top of the Capital Premier League table as they claimed an eighth win from nine outings with a comfortable 5-0 victory over West Canberra Wanderers at O’Connor Enclosed.
Olympic were always in command of the game, but it took a three-goal burst close to half-time for them to shake off the Wanderers. Zachary Milczarek gave them the lead in the fifteenth minute, before Julian Borgna opened the floodgates three minutes from half-time.
Stoppage time goals from Remi Gachet and Mark Shields suddenly saw Wanderers staring down a big defeat, but they recovered well in the second-half, conceding just once ore as Borgna grabbed his second, and seventh of the season.
Belconnen United slipped off the pace at the top of the table as they were held to a 1-1 draw by ANU FC South Oval, the point leaving the University team in third place, three behind the Blue Devils and seven off top spot.
Both goals were scored in the first-half of the match, and it was Belconnen who were to open the scoring in the twentieth minutes the industrious Jake Bishop broke the deadlock with his fourth league goal of the season.
The students weren’t trailing for long however and ensured they would end the game with a share of the spoils as Nicholas Hope levelled matters and, despite chances for both teams, the game ended all-square.
Brindabella Blues took advantage of the ANU and Belconnen dropping of points to close the gap in fourth position with an excellent 4-1 away victory over Wagga City Wanderers at Gissing Oval.
Finn Harmer put the Blues ahead in the thirteenth minute, and that was an advantage they were to hold until ten minutes into the second-half before Kade Lyons equalised for Wanderers with his seventh goal of the campaign.
The turning point was two goals in two minutes for the visiting team as Harmer and Curtis Schaeffer struck either side of the hour mark, Nikolas Blaskovic settling matters once and for all with the fourth in the final minute of the fixture.
Six goals were shared at Ainslie as Canberra Juventus and White Eagles played out a hugely entertaining 3-3 draw for a decent crowd, a result that meant both missed the chance to close the gap on the teams above them in the top four places.
In a ding-dong battle Jasper Milin gave Juventus the lead early on, only for Sergio Lindner to level the scores before half-time. Cristian Barresi restored Juventus’ lead with a 54th minute goal before the match exploded in the final eighteen minutes.
Lindner brought Eagles back on terms with his ninth goal of the season, and when Ali Sohani struck with three minutes left, a major result was on the cards. Juventus rescued themselves five minutes into stoppage time though when Barresi scored his second from the penalty spot.
RESULTS
ROUND 10
Canberra Juventus 3 (Milin 4’, Barresi 54’, 90+5’ (p)) West Eagles 3 (Lindner 44’, 72’, Sohani 87’)
Wagga City Wanderers 1 (Lyons 55’) Brindabella Blues 4 (Harmer 13’, 61’, Schaeffer 59’, Blaskovic 89’)
ANU FC 1 (Hope 30’) Belconnen Unted 1 (Bishop 20’)
Canberra Olympic 5 (Milczarek 15’, Borgna 42’, 84’, Gachet 45+1’, Shields 45+2’) West Canberra Wanderers 0
TABLE
| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | ||
| 1 | Canberra Olympic | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 9 | +28 | 25 |
| 2 | Belconnen United | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 10 | +11 | 21 |
| 3 | ANU FC | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 14 | +14 | 18 |
| 4 | Brindabella Blues | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 16 | +4 | 13 |
| 5 | Canberra Juventus | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 22 | -4 | 13 |
| 6 | Wagga City Wanderers | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 28 | -5 | 10 |
| 7 | White Eagles | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 25 | -7 | 8 |
| 8 | West Canberra | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 46 | -41 | 0 |
TOP SCORERS
11: Jack GIBSON (ANU FC)
9: Sergio LINDNER (White Eagles)
7: Mate BARISIC (Canberra Olympic), Julian BORGNA (Canberra Olympic), Kade LYONS (Wagga City Wanderers), Curtis SCHAEFFER (Brindabella Blues)
6: Remi GACHET (Canberra Olympic), Own GOALS
5: Cristian BARRESI (Canberra Juventus),
4: Mate BARISIC (Canberra Olympic), Jake BISHOP (Belconnen United), Abderrahim DELLAHI (White Eagles), Michael RINAUDO (Belconnen United), Zac STEELE (Wagga City Wanderers), Thomas YONGAI (Wagga City Wanderers)
3: Hassan ALNUWAYSIR (Canberra Olympic), Tom COSENTINI (Canberra Juventus), Finn HARMER (Brindabella Blues), Samuel LYE (ANU FC), Zachary MILCZAREK (Canberra Olympic), Jasper MILIN (Canberra Juventus), Mark SHIELDS (Canberra Olympic), Antoni TIMOTHEOU (Canberra Olympic), Dustin WELLS (Belconnen United), Henry WILKS (Brindabella Blues)
2: Harry BILLINGTON (Belconnen United), Jacob HART (ANU FC), Nicholas HOPE (ANU FC), Jonathan JOHN (Brindabella Blues), Adam NEOU (Canberra Olympic), Andre OLIVEIRA (ANU FC), Babin PAUDYAL (Canberra Juventus), Ali SOHANI (White Eagles)
1: Andrew AITCHISON (West Canberra Wanderers), Deng ALEER DENG (Brindabella Blues), Dylan BARRETO (Canberra Juventus), Nikolas BLASKOVIC (Brindabella Blues), Elijah BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Isaac BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Eliseo CASTRO (Canberra Juventus),Zac CHADWICK (ANU FC), Lewis DOBBION (ANU FC), Nick FAUST (Canberra Olympic), Monteagh GRACE (ANU FC), Marcus GRZIC (West Canberra Wanderers), Benjamin HADFIELD (ANU FC), Ben HICK (White Eagles), Jayde JAMES-WARD (Belconnen United), Morris KADZOLA (Wagga City Wanderers), Damien KENNEDY (White Eagles), Ethan KRUG (ANU FC), Tony MADAFFARI (Canberra Juventus), Jak MATIC (Canberra Juventus), Alasdair MOORE (ANU FC), Max MOTTL (ANU FC), Van NGUYEN (West Canberra Wanderers), Jacob OCHIENG (Wagga City Wanderers), Patrick O’ROURKE (Belconnen United), Maxwell PREST (Wagga City Wanderers), Ferney RENTERIA (White Eagles), Tupaia RINGI (Belconnen United), Pedro SERRANO (Belconnen United), Patrick SHORE (Canberra Juventus), Kye SMITH (Belconnen United), Naser SMOQY (Wagga City Wanderers), Bailey SORENSON (Canberra Olympic), Ethan STAMATIS (West Canberra Wanderers), Liam VICKERS (West Canberra Wanderers), Oliver WIEDERKEHR (Canberra Olympic), Riley WILLIAMS (Brindabella Blues), Oliver WIRTZENS (Brindabella Blues), Kyle YEATES (Wagga City Wanderers)
