Knox City v Waverley

Knox City 1 Waverley Wanderers 0 (Half-time 0-0)

For the first seventy minutes this game, spectators looking for a word to describe would have come up with boring, soporific or similar. Both sides failed to come to grips with the bumpy pitch, chances were few and far between and a nil all draw looked on the cards.

However the game sprang to life in the last 20 minutes, a bit of feeling crept in, yellow cards were dished out, the referee gave a red card to a substitute on the bench and Knox snatched the winner in the 87th minute.

The crowd waited for 30 minutes before the first chance came and went. Edgar latched on to a corner at the far post and dinked the ball over Kourtis into the middle of the goal but the Waverley defence managed to clear what looked like a certain goal.

Waverley had a number of free kicks in good positions but failed to capitalise and while the visitors had more of the game territorially they did not put the Knox goal under any pressure.

Knox started the second half on the attack but the first danger came at the other end when Jorgensen had to go full length at Strapelias’ feet to smother the chance. Strapelias was now starting to get more of the ball as he drifted wider to the left, but still the chances at both ends were sparse.

Then, in the 75th minute an altercation near the benches saw the referee red-card one of the Waverley substitutes and suddenly the game took on a different feel. A number of yellow cards were handed out for tackles and Kourtis made a sensational reflex save low to his left to deny Suat. The Waverley keeper followed this with another fine save shortly after.

With a draw looking odds on, Knox was awarded a free kick on the left. Nick Veljovic swung the ball to the far post where it fell invitingly for Hingett to volley home from close range.

Knox held on to record their first win whilst remaining unbeaten, whilst Waverley lost their first game and conceded their first goal of the season.

Knox City: M. Jorgensen, G. Dos Santos, A. Edgar, D. Perazic, G. Moon (M. Mohmmadi -81st (M. Coates – 90th)), J. Hingert, N. Giannopoulos, H. Swami, D. Veljovic (L. Grubic – 56th), N. Veljovic, K.Suat . Subs not used – E. Becirovic, K. McEvoy.

Waverley Wanderers: J. Kourtis, P. Liapois, J. Nezos, P. Kapetanas, S. Zarokostas, R. Navarro, P. Pantelidis, Ni. Gidas (V. Daglis – 46th), L. Christou (P. Madondo – 46th), A. Strapelias, M. Panaghis (A. Gungordu – 76th). Subs not used – B. Roberts, P. Tsiotas.