The League Champions Belconnen United ended their season with the silverware but had to settle for a share of the points in their final outing before the finals series as they were held to a 0-0 draw by White Eagles.

Resting some players ahead of their Finals match next weekend, the Blue Devils could not break down the Eagles, ending the seaosn on forty-seven points, three points clear of Olympic in second place.

Canberra Olympic made sure that second place would be theirs, and a place in the Qualification Final against Belconnen United by defeating closet challengers ANU FC 3-0 at the University grounds

Olympic edged in front just before the twenty minute mark as Luca Florez found a way pas the University defence to open the scoring. And Olympic was to make it two nine minutes before the interval, Adam Neou bagging the second.

The points were secured in the final minute as Hassan Alnuwaysir bagged against his former club leaving Olympic heading into the Qualification showdown in a confident mood.

Brindabella Blues had a question of what might have been as they closed the gap on Canberra Juventus, who had finished fourth in the league table, with a 3-1 win over Juventus at Ipan Park in Calwell.

The Blues were ahead in the thirteenth minute as Curtis Schaeffer opening the scoring for the hosts, drawing level in the Golden Boot charts in the process. Josh Gaspari levelled for Juventus before the break, but Henry Wilks restored the Blues lead twenty-five minutes from time.

There was still time for one more and, three minutes into stoppage time, Schaeffer scored his second, and nineteenth of the season, to snatch the Golden Boot at the very death of the regular season.

Wagga City Wanderers defeated West Canberra Wanderers at Melrose Synthetic to claim bragging rights as they ended their CPL tenure with a memorable 4-2 away win in the Capital.

A brace of early goals gave Wagga City Wanderers the perfect start to the match as Zac Steel struck first after only nine minutes, the second goal following just ten minutes later as Thomas Yongai doubled the Wagga City advantage.

Jordan Burgos-Diaz pulled one back for West Canberra within nine minutes of the restart after the break, only for goals form Maxwell Prest and Kade Lyons to have Wagga firmly in the driving seat. A late goal from Juan Diaz-Tellez reduced the arrears, but Wagga had done enough.

RESULTS

ROUND 21

Saturday 30 August

ANU FC 0 Canberra Olympic 3 (Florez 19’, Neou 34’, Alnuwaysir 90’)

Brindabella Blues 3 (Schaeffer 13’, 90+3’, Wilks 65’) Canberra Juventus 1 (Gaspari 40’)

West Canberra Wanderers 2 (Diaz-Burgos 54’, Diaz-Tellez 73’) Wagga City Wanderers 4 (Steele 9’, Yongai 18’, Prest 56’, Lyons 65’)

White Eagles 0 Belconnen United 0

TABLE

		P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1	Belconnen United	21	14	5	2	55	23	+32	47
2	Canberra Olympic	21	14	2	5	62	36	+26	44
3	ANU FC	21	11	6	4	58	31	+27	39
4	Canberra Juventus	21	10	3	8	49	38	+11	33
5	Brindabella Blues	21	10	2	9	42	31	+11	32
6	White Eagles	21	5	4	12	29	48	-19	19
7	Wagga City Wanderers	21	6	1	14	47	79	-32	19
8	West Canberra	21	2	1	18	24	80	-56	7

 

TOP SCORERS

19: Curtis SCHAEFFER (Brindabella Blues)

18: Jack GIBSON (ANU FC)

14: Kade LYONS (Wagga City Wanderers)

12: Cristian BARRESI (Canberra Juventus), Mate BARISIC (Canberra Olympic), Sergio LINDNER (White Eagles)

10: Jake BISHOP (Belconnen United), Julian BORGNA (Canberra Olympic), Dustin WELLS (Belconnen United), Thomas YONGAI (Wagga City Wanderers)

8: Juan DIAZ-TELLEZ (West Canberra Wanderers), Jayde JAMES-WARD (Belconnen United), Zac STEELE (Wagga City Wanderers)

7: Own GOALS

6: Remi GACHET (Canberra Olympic), Maxwell PREST (Wagga City Wanderers), Michael RINAUDO (Belconnen United)

5: Micheal ADAMS (Canberra Juventus), Hassan ALNUWAYSIR (Canberra Olympic), Luca FLOREZ (Canberra Olympic), Jacob HART (ANU FC), Nicholas HOPE (ANU FC), Adrian MACOR (Canberra Juventus), Jak MATIC (Canberra Juventus), Zachary MILCZAREK (Canberra Olympic), Tupaia RINGI (Belconnen United), Ali SOHANI (White Eagles), Antoni TIMOTHEOU (Canberra Olympic)

4: Zac CHADWICK (ANU FC), Abderrahim DELLAHI (White Eagles), Ramon LINDNER (White Eagles), Max MOTTL (ANU FC), Adam NEOU (Canberra Olympic), Andre OLIVEIRA (ANU FC), Mark SHIELDS (Canberra Olympic), Henry WILKS (Brindabella Blues)

3: Tom COSENTINI (Canberra Juventus), Juan DIAZ-BURGOS (Wes Canberra Wanderers), Finn HARMER (Brindabella Blues), Jonathan JOHN (Brindabella Blues), Orlando JEFFERY (ANU FC), Samuel LYE (ANU FC), Luca MACOR (Canberra Juventus), Van NGUYEN (West Canberra Wanderers), Riley WILLIAMS (Brindabella Blues)

2: Dylan BARRETO (Canberra Juventus), Harry BILLINGTON (Belconnen United), Adam BROOKS (Canberra Juventus), Izach CLEMENTS (Belconnen United), Josh GASPARI (Canberra Juventus), Oliver GRIST (ANU FC), Marcus GRZIC (West Canberra Wanderers), Christopher JOHN (Brindabella Blues), Tony MADAFFARI (Canberra Juventus), Jasper MILIN (Canberra Juventus), Alasdair MOORE (ANU FC), Jack MURRAY (White Eagles), Patrick O’ROURKE (Belconnen United), Zac OWERS (Wagga City Wanderers), Babin PAUDYAL (Canberra Juventus), Patrick SHORE (Canberra Juventus), Bailey SORENSON (Canberra Olympic), Regan WALSH (Belconnen United), Oliver WIRTZENS (Brindabella Blues)

1: Andrew AITCHISON (West Canberra Wanderers), Deng ALEER DENG (Brindabella Blues), Joel BAIRD (Belconnen United), Nikolas BLASKOVIC (Brindabella Blues), Elijah BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Isaac BROOKER (Wagga City Wanderers), Eliseo CASTRO (Canberra Juventus), Eddie COGGAN (Belconnen United), Lewis DOBBIN (ANU FC), Nick FAUST (Canberra Olympic), Daniel FOX (West Canberra Wanderers), Geordie FREEMAN (West Canberra Wanderers), Monteagh GRACE (ANU FC),  David GURNEY (Brindabella Blues), Benjamin HADFIELD (ANU FC), Ben HICK (White Eagles), Tom HUIZENGA (ANU FC), Morris KADZOLA (Wagga City Wanderers), Damien KENNEDY (White Eagles), Tomas KRKLEC (Canberra Olympic), Ethan KRUG (ANU FC), Daniel LINSTEAD (Canberra Olympic), Tyler LOCHNER (Canberra Juventus), Daniel MAKENY (Brindabella Blues), Goran MILUTINOVIC (White Eagles), Daniel MUNOZ (Brindabella Blues), Nik NOVESKI (White Eagles), Jacob OCHIENG (Wagga City Wanderers), Riley PATTERSON (West Canberra Wanderers), Noah PRAIL (West Canberra Wanderers), Max RAWLINSON (ANU FC), Ferney RENTERIA (White Eagles), Ilies SAADI (West Canberra Wanderers), Pedro SERRANO (Belconnen United), Kye SMITH (Belconnen United), Naser SMOQY (Wagga City Wanderers), Ethan STAMATIS (West Canberra Wanderers), Ethan TUDEHOPE (ANU FC), Liam VICKERS (West Canberra Wanderers), Oliver WIEDERKEHR (Canberra Olympic), Kyle YEATES (Wagga City Wanderers)