Heatherton Utd. v Knox City

Heatherton United 0 Knox City 3 (Half-time 0-1)

Two Knox City goals immediately after half-time killed off this game as a competitive match and the visitors strolled to a comfortable three goal victory.

Such was Knox’s domination that goalkeeper, Mark Jorgensen did not have a single save to make in the entire 90 minutes. The Knox backline was rock solid all day with Perazic and Edgar commanding in the middle of the defence.

Knox stamped its authority on the game as early as the 7th minute. A long throw from the left wing by Veljovic, was headed on at the near post by Edgar and Swami was lurking at the far post and he netted with a fierce drive despite Mutapcic getting a hand to the ball.

Suat had a chance to double the lead but he tried to beat too many defenders before getting off a shot.

Heatherton found it difficult to break down a solid Knox defence and their best chances came from long throw-ins but even these were to no avail.

Mutapcic made a fine save to deny Knox a second goal and then Veljovic had a free kick cleared off the line as the visitors failed to capitalise on their chances.

All of this was put to rights in the first six minutes after the break. Heatherton started the half brightly enough but got caught by a classic counter attack in the 49th minute. A long ball down the right hand side found Grubic. He cleverly evaded two tackles and squared the ball into the path of Giannopoulos who side-footed the ball past Mutapcic from six metres out.

Two minutes later Edgar had stayed forward after a free kick was cleared and the ball came back to him in the area in space and he was able to pick his spot to put the game out of reach of the home side.

The game petered out from this point as Knox was content to hold on to what they had and Heatherton lacked the spark to get back into the game. Knox stayed undefeated and moved into second place on the table, pending the later results.

Heatherton United: Mutapcic, Kinski, Karamehmedovic, Nuhanovic, Heco, Bujabasic, Ash (Kariuki – 61st ), M. Skenderovic, Pedic, Dedovic (N. Skenderovic – 46th), Ogana (Klehic – 83rd). Subs not used: Kuljuh, Halilovic.

Knox City: M. Jorgensen, G. Dos Santos, A. Edgar, D. Perazic, G. Moon (M. Hoogendyk – 67th), J. Hingert (W. Stolke – 75th ), N. Giannopoulos, H. Swami, L. Grubic, N. Veljovic, K.Suat (M. Miladi – 72nd). Sub not used – K. McEvoy.