Manly United FC V Sydney Olympic FC
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KICKOFF 2021 - ROUND 07 FRIDAY CROMER 9TH APRIL PARK 7PM MEN’S CLUB WELCOME Good evening and welcome to Cromer Park for Last weekend was a special night for Ben Gibson, tonight’s National Premier Leagues NSW Men’s who made his first grade debut and scored the 2021 match between Manly United and Sydney match-sealing goal in a 2-0 win over Sydney FC. Olympic. The 17-year-old striker has been at Manly United Our clashes with Sydney Olympic are always high since he was 9 years old after playing for local club quality and this will be no different. CC Strikers and continued a positive recent trend of local juniors progressing through to the first grade Manly United goes into the match following back- side. to-back wins against APIA Leichhardt and Sydney While the juniors are making a significant input FC and the first time in recent memory sit on top of to the recent success it is the core of experienced the Men’s First Grade ladder. players that have been guiding the ship, on and off While there is a long way to go in the 2021 the field, ensuring that the environment at Cromer competition, Manly’s position on top of the first Park is competitive but collaborative. grade ladder is a good sign as to the overall strength Sydney Olympic comes across town with a sprinkling of the club at the moment with the U20 and U18 of former Manly players and we welcome Brendan teams also at the summit of their competitions and Cholakian, Marley Petersen and Adam Parkhouse all BYL teams also sitting in the top 3. back to Cromer Park for tonight’s game. Good luck to both teams and we hope you all enjoy Our women’s teams started their competition last Friday Night Football at Cromer Park. weekend and managed a clean sweep of victories in all grades. #WeAreManly 2 #NPLNSW MAJOR SPONSORS CLUB PARTNERS TEAM SPONSORS NPLNSW.COM.AU 3 1ST GRADE TEAM LISTS 1 Dylan Mitchell (GK) 1 Nicholas Sorras 2 Kieren Paull 2 Tom Whiteside 3 James Georgaklis 3 Billy Patramanis 4 Jimmy Oates 4 Ben Van Meurs 5 Sam Gallagher 5 Michael Glassock 6 Joe Fox 6 Nicola Kuleski 7 Jack Fulton 7 Will Angel 8 Dom Ferguson 8 Jason Madonis 9 Ben Koop 9 Oliver Puflett 10 Richie Cardozo 10 Brendan Cholakian 11 Daniel Fabrizio 11 Adam Parkhouse 12 Luka Kmet 12 Zac Mackenzie 13 Scott Balderson 14 Peter Kekeris 14 Dejan Pandurevic 17 Marley Peterson 15 Jesse Piriz 18 Yu Hasegawa 16 Seiya Kambayashi 19 Darcy Burgess 17 Ronan Connolly 20 Luke Kairies 18 Lucas Rainbird 21 Fabian Monge 19 Sam Benton (GK) 22 Fabio Ferreira 20 Alen Aganovic 23 Daniel Dias 21 Jordan Segreto 24 Hagi Gligor 22 Zach Forsyth 25 James Cakovski 23 Jordan Devries 27 Šimun Miličević 24 Finn Ashton 30 Brody Mackay 35 Mohamed Adam Head Coach: Adam Griffiths 70 Chris Parsons Assistant Coach: Dylan Macallister Head Coach: Ante Juric Assistant Coach: Marty Judge Assistant Coach: Steve Bozinovski Goalkeeper Coach: Trinity Allen Goal Keeper Coach: Paul Henderson Physio: Steve Felsher Physio: Sam Mahabady Team Manager: Ida Rigoni Manager: Parry Hatzi Physio: PHYSIO4ALL – Christian Bate Equipment: Paul Oliveri Strength and Conditioning: Alex Berger Referee: S. Kelly Assistant Referees: J. Park and I. Covic Fourth Official: M. Riedy *TEAM LISTINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGE MATCH PREVIEW Competition leaders Manly United will be out to add W-League Grand Final this Sunday but will want to to their unbeaten streak with a win against Sydney get on the front foot with a victory in Manly before Olympic at Cromer Park this Friday. that clash. Manly have climbed to top spot on the back of three Back to back wins in rounds four and five were wins from their past four games and are in good undone by a poor performance in a defeat at Mt form early in the season. Druitt in round six. Coach Adam Griffiths has his team playing quality Olympic’s goalscoring woes have returned and football and they’ll be determined to prove despite creating brilliant chances for Jason Madonis themselves against Olympic. and Yu Hasegawa, couldn’t find the back of the net against Mt Druitt. Manly have cruised under the radar a bit this season but will now need to prepare for life with a target on Sitting in ninth place on six points, Olympic will their back as rival sides look to knock them off their need a win to stay in touch with the competition perch. leaders if they are going to keep their premiership hopes alive. Jack Fulton and Ben Gibson were the goal scorers for manly last week and Griffiths will be hoping his Manly United will be tough to beat at home and will young team continues their form in front of goal. be favourites for this clash. Looking to stop them is a Sydney Olympic side that A thrilling match-up to kick-off round seven. has struggled for consistency so far in 2021. Coach Ante Juric will have one eye on his Sydney FC W-League side who are set to play in yet another 1ST GRADE LADDER POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Manly United FC 6 3 3 0 8 4 4 12 2 Sydney United 58 FC 6 4 0 2 13 10 3 12 3 Rockdale Ilinden FC 6 3 2 1 12 8 4 11 4 Blacktown City FC 6 3 1 2 9 6 3 10 5 Northbridge Bulls FC 6 2 2 2 13 11 2 8 6 Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 6 2 2 2 8 11 -3 8 7 Marconi Stallions FC 6 1 4 1 11 10 1 7 8 Sydney FC 6 2 1 3 8 12 -4 7 9 Sydney Olympic FC 5 2 0 3 4 5 -1 6 10 Sutherland Sharks FC 6 1 2 3 7 9 -2 5 11 Wollongong Wolves FC 5 1 2 2 6 8 -2 5 12 APIA Leichhardt FC 6 1 1 4 3 8 -5 4 NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 FIRST GRADE REVIEWS Manly United 2 – Sydney FC 0 at Cromer Park Mt Druitt Town Rangers 2 – Sydney Olympic FC 1 at Popondetta Park Youngster Ben Gibson stole the show with a goal minutes into his senior debut as Manly United The Easter Bunny waved its magic at Popondetta maintained their unbeaten start to the National Park on Saturday night as Mt Druitt Town Rangers Premier Leagues NSW season with a 2-0 victory over returned to the winner’s circle with a 2-1 win against Sydney FC at Cromer Park on Good Friday. Sydney Olympic. The win moved Manly United to the top of the NPL The Rangers regrouped after a devastating 4-1 round NSW ladder as their incredible start to the campaign 5 loss to the Sutherland Sharks as their resilient continues. defence led by Travis Oughtred, Blake Thompson and skipper Carlos Saliadarre proved telling in their Despite a slow start to the match from Manly, Jack memorable win over highly fancied opponents. Fulton opened the scoring for the home side only moments after the restart The hosts repelled the waves of Sydney Olympic attacks in the first half before they opened the Debutant Gibson doubled the advantage in the scoring through Japanese star Fumoto Kamada. They 77th minute as the boys from the Northern Beaches were pegged back but Cooper Coskerie touched cruised to another brilliant win. home to give the home side the chocolates.. It was a tough night for Olympic who were on the front foot but couldn’t find the net. Blues substitute Yu Hasegawa equalised with ten to go but the points melted away late in a night of frustration for the visitors. OFFICIAL MATCH BALL OF NPL NSW PURCHASE FROM: 6 #NPLNSW TOP GOAL SCORERS Patrick Antelmi Sydney United 58 5 Alec Urosevski Rockdale Illinden 5 Marko Jesic Marconi 5 Kyle Cimenti Rockdale Ilinden 5 James Andrew Sutherland Sharks 4 Chris Payne Sydney United 58 4 Matt Sim Sydney United 58 3 Rory Jordan Northbridge Bulls 3 Dejan Pandurevic Manly United 3 Anthony Frangie Marconi 3 NPLNSW.COM.AU 7 U20 TEAM LISTS 25 Harry Aquilina 34 Harry Lomas 26 Jack Berte 35 Jordan Metcalfe 27 Hugo Cornish 36 Matt O’Donoghue 28 Tom Chidiac 37 Nick Rainbird 29 Alex Demarco 38 Ping Tsai 30 Harry Eland 39 Liam Tachjian 31 Ben Gibson 40 Mitch Mattison 32 George Kriezis Head Coach: Andrew Christiansen Physio: PHYSIO4ALL – Peter Xenos Assistant Coach: Nick Robb Strength and Conditioning: Alex Berger Team Manager: Graeme Gibson 28 James Tanoski 38 Frank Puric 29 Chan Deng 39 Peter Politis 32 Juan Da Silva 40 Matteo Scali 33 Jaeryun Kim 41 Blair Smith 36 Matthew Scarcella 43 Mohammed Khamis 37 Dimitri Gremos Head Coach: Jim Patikas Manager: Con Haramis U20 LADDER POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Manly United FC 6 5 0 1 16 3 13 15 2 Sydney Olympic FC 5 4 0 1 12 5 7 12 3 Blacktown City FC 6 3 1 2 16 6 10 10 4 Sydney FC 5 3 1 1 7 3 4 10 5 Wollongong Wolves FC 5 3 0 2 6 6 0 9 6 Northbridge Bulls FC 5 2 1 2 8 8 0 7 7 APIA Leichhardt FC 5 2 1 2 9 11 -2 7 8 Marconi Stallions FC 5 2 1 2 5 7 -2 7 9 Sutherland Sharks FC 5 2 1 2 6 11 -5 7 10 Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 5 1 2 2 6 10 -4 5 11 Sydney United 58 FC 6 0 2 4 6 14 -8 2 12 Rockdale Ilinden FC 6 0 0 6 4 17 -13 0 8 #NPLNSW PHOTO GALLERY Freshwater Community Bank® Branch There are four big reasons to try number five.