National Premier Leagues: Capital Football
Round 12 – Review

Sunday 29th June
FFA COE 1 (Daniel Maskin 68’) Belconnen United 4 (Marty Raines 31’, Aisosa Ihegie 38’, Tom McLachlan 53’, Dustin Wells 58’ (pen))
Belconnen United increased their lead at the top of the National Premier Leagues: Capital Football league ladder with a comprehensive 4-1 victory over the FFA Centre of Excellence at the AIS Grass Fields on a bitterly cold Sunday afternoon. The Blue Devils never looked likely to be coming away with anything less than the full quota of points after Marty Raines netted his first goal in the NPL for the club. The forward, recovered from injury, had also scored in the midweek Federation Cup semi-final victory over Canberra Olympic, and continued his good form with the opener here. Youngster Aisosa Ihegie also scored twice in that Cup match and therefore few were surprised when the leggy striker added to Raines’ opener seven minutes later to open up a two-goal cushion and leave the FFA with plenty to do after the break. Any hopes that the FFA COE had of getting back into the match were dispelled within eight minutes of the restart as the in-form Tom McLachlan struck for the sixth time in the league this season. With FFA COE committed forward, the Blue Devils were able to add to their tally as Dustin Wells hit home his eighth of the campaign from a 58th minute penalty. There was time for the Centre of Excellence to pull one back, through Daniel Maskin, but they were second best on the day to a title chasing Belconnen.
FFA COE: 12. Brandon OSIPOV, 3. Henry DAVIES, 5. Zachary SPETH, 7. Daniel MASKIN, 10. Jamie DIMITROFF, 13. Christian VERBI, 16. Danny KIM, 17. Nicholas PANETTA, 19. Charlie DEVEREUX, 21, Jamal REINERS, 22. Cameron JOICE
Substitutes used: 6. Joe CALETTI, 23. Kosta PETRATOS, 24. Jackson BANDIERA
Belconnen United: 1. Ashley COLLINS, 2. Cameron REINHART, 4. David KEMP, 5. Dustin WELLS, 7. Taylor BEATON, 8. Zac MAYBURY, 9. Marty RAINES, 11. Aisosa IHEGIE, 13. Jack GREEN, 14. Milan POPOVICH, 15. Tom McLACHLAN
Substitutes used: 6. Kelvin DELLE, 10. Michael TAURASI, 12. Bernard RENE
Discipline: YELLOW CARDS: 7. Daniel MASKIN (FFA COE), 11. Aisosa IHEGIE (Belconnen United)
Match Officials: Brett Woodford (referee), Vinh Ngo-Da, Georgia Ghirardello

Woden Valley 3 (Tom Hirst 1’, Marco Gayer 24’, Andrew Slavich 59’) Canberra City 0
Woden Valley celebrated their second win of the season on Sunday afternoon as they defeated bottom of the table Canberra City 3-0 at Hawker Football Centre. With Kaleen Enclosed unplayable, the match was switched to the synthetic surface and Woden wasted no time settling into the encounter. The hosts took the lead after only fifty seconds with a stunning strike. Tom Hirst, recently returned to the club from England, collected the ball some thirty metres from goal and set his sights to rifle home a thunderous drive that rocketed past James Ward in the City goal and threatened to tear the net from its stanchion as it whistled into the top corner. It was just the start that Woden craved and left City playing catch-up, an all too familiar position for Nick Palagyi and his team this season. Their position was worsened in the 24th minute as Woden went 2-0 ahead through another superbly taken goal. Marco Gayer had the confidence and ability to take on the City defence out wide, weaving his way into the penalty area and blasting a vicious cross-shot past Ward and into the far side-netting for a brilliant goal. Leading 2-0 at the break it was Woden’s match to lose and they added a third to seal the deal just before the sixty minute mark as Andrew Slavich rounded off the win with his second of the season.
Woden Valley: 1. Jason DENHAM, 3. Sam OSSATO, 7. Regan WALSH, 10. Romeo ROMEO, 13. Marco GAYER, 14. Julien RENARD, 15. Zach HARRIGAN, 19. Liam WALSH, 22. Owen STEER, 23. Andrew SLAVICH, 28. Tom HIRST
Substitutes used: 4. Andrew KILEY, 9. Thomas ZEITLHOFER, 12. Mitch STEENBERGEN
Canberra City: 33. James WARD, 2. Andrew MANLEY, 5. Andrew ALIFFI, 7. Gimale ESSACU, 8. Alan GASTON, 9. Ben DOYLE, 10. Misko NAUMOSKI, 11. Deng Aleer DENG, 12. Michael PERCIVAL, 13. Sam McDONALD, 15. Jeremy HEGARTY
Substitutes used: 4. Patrick CLARKE, 6. Yumi OGUNROLA, 14. Valentine UGUWUMBA
Discipline: YELLOW CARDS: None
Match Officials: Matt Cropper (referee), David Ockerby, Duncan McLaren

Tuggeranong United v Canberra FC – Match Postponed

Monaro Panthers v Canberra Olympic – Match Postponed

TABLE

LEADING SCORERS
10 Daniel BENNETT (Canberra FC), Robbie CATTANACH (Cooma Tigers)
9 Jason UGRINIC (Belconnen United)
8 Dustin WELLS (Belconnen United), Alex OLORIEGBE (Canberra FC)
7 Robbie DEELEY, Mark SHIELDS (Canberra Olympic), Stephen DOMENICI (Cooma Tigers)
6 Tom McLACHLAN (Belconnen United), Goran JOSIFOVSKI (Cooma Tigers)
5 Goran MUKEVSKI, Michael TAURASI (Belconnen United), Philippe BERNABO-MADRID, Domenic GIAMPAOLO (Canberra FC), Own GOALS
4 Aaron EVANS, Peter KEKERIS (FFA COE), Thomas JAMES (Monaro Panthers)
3 Daniel MASKIN, Jamal REINERS (FFA COE), Josh CALABRIA (Monaro Panthers), Michael JOHN, Jon TOOLE (Tuggeranong United), Lukas COLE (Woden Valley)
2 Jack BLACKLEY, Aisosa IHEGIE (Belconnen United), Gimale ESSACU, Misko NAUMOSKI (Canberra City), Michael REEVE, Callum SMITH (Canberra Olympic), Ian GRAHAM, Josip JADRIC (Canberra FC), Julian BORGNA (Cooma Tigers), Daniel ARZANI, Kosta PETRATOS (FFA COE), Darian McGARRY-WATSON, Deng PADIET (Monaro Panthers), Daniel COLBERTALDO, Muad ZWED (Tuggeranong United), John GIBSON, Andrew SLAVICH, Regan WALSH (Woden Valley)
1 Taylor BEATON, David KEMP, Marty RAINES (Belconnen United), Adam DOBELL (Canberra City), Ryan KEIR (Canberra FC), Nick BOBOLAS, Daniel FULTON, Josh GASPARI, Oliver WIEDERKEHR (Canberra Olympic), Jordan LANDO, Lianel LAUPER (Cooma Tigers), Nicholas D’AGOSTINO, Charlie DEVEREUX, Jamie DIMITROFF, Kye ROWLES, Zak WATERS (FFA COE), Kamal AHMED, Martin DENG, Pepe VARGA (Monaro Panthers), Sean KIDDEY, Harry PETTIT (Tuggeranong United), Marco GAYER, Tom HIRST, Conor NOLAN, Mitch STEENBERGEN (Woden Valley)