Barrack Heights Sports Field played host to the round 5 Illawarra Mercury Premier League match between Shell Cove and Cringila Lions. In a tough match, Shell Cove proved to be too strong with an impressive 5-2 victory over the Cringila Lions. To their credit though, Cringila Lions never gave up.

The match started at a lively pace with the Cringila Lions goalkeeper put under immediate pressure. A free kick awarded to Shell Cove in the first minute of the match gave Shell Cove’s Jordan Hassiem a chance to test the Tinker. The ball however hit the Cringila wall and was cleared to safety. Two minutes later, Shell Cove’s Goran Nikolovski had an attempt at goal from a corner but the Cringila Lions goalkeeper Joel Tinker again was in form and had no trouble in saving the attempt.

First goal of the game was scored in the sixth minute after Cringila Lions were awarded a free kick just outside the box. Daniel Ramirez crossed the ball to Daniel Atkins who then kicked the ball powerfully past the goalkeeper and into the right hand corner of the goal.

Cringila Lions1- Shell Cove 0.

Cringila Lions appeared to be on top of Shell Cove at this stage and were fired up. A good run up the centre of the field by Cringila Lions' Hironari Kobayashi in the 18^th minute of the match saw him have a shot at goal. Despite the goalkeeper failing to stop the ball, the follow up was not powerful enough for the ball to cross the line.

In the 22^nd minute of the match, Shell Cove’s Daniel Vellonio attempted a shot at goal from outside the box requiring Tinker again to rescue Cringila as he came flying out of the box to save it. Minutes later though, Tinker however misjudged a balll causing the ball to head straight for the goal. Cringila Lion’s Daniel Wagus who was defending in front of the goals appeared to handle the ball to prevent a goal. The referee gave him an automatic red card and penalty to Shell Cove.

The resulting penalty kick to Shell Cove, taken by Goran Nikolovski, was well put away to level the scores.

The deadlock was broken in the 37^th minute by Cringila Lions' Daniel Atkins after his free kick was successful.

Cringila Lions 2 – Shell Cove 1.

Shell Cove had two opportunities to score and take the lead as a result of free kicks but they were unsuccessful.

Just before half time, Shell Cove’s Kurdvan Abduljabbar crossed the ball to Daniel Vellionio who scored with a powerful shot and evened the score for Shell Cove.

Shell Cove 2 - Cringila Lions 2.

Right on half time and just after scoring his goal, Shell Cove’s Daniel Vellonio was stretchered off to be replaced in the second half by Lucas Rossi.

Action started immediately in the second half with Shell Cove scoring in the first 30 seconds after a good pass by Shoehei Arakawia to Kurdvan Abduljabbar enabled Kurdvan to put the ball into the net.

Shell Cove 3 – Cringila Lions 2.

Shell Cove were now getting on top of the Cringila Lions and in the 56^th minute Shell Cove scored again thanks to a superb attack and goal kick from Jordan Hassiems                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Shell Cove 4 – Cringila Lions 2.

Cringila Lions did not give up though and in the next twenty minutes had three attempts at goal but all were unsuccessful.

In the 79^th minute, Shell Cove put the game out of Cringila Lions reach with an easy goal to Lucas Rossi due to the lack of Cringila Lions defence.

Shell Cove 5 – Cringila Lions 2.

Even though Shell Cove were dominating the game with their technical ability, Cringila Lions didn’t give up until the end of the match.

In the end Shell Cove though, Shell Cove were delighted to have an impressive win over Cringila Lions 5-2.

 

Barrack Heights Sports Field

Shell Cove VS Cringila Lions  2:30pm

 

Shell Cove Team:

Abam Rodriguez, Goran Nikolovski, Nathan Macgraw, Kazuhiro Obata, Ljupco Naumovski, Filip Angeleski, Daniel Vellonio, Shahei Arakawia, Jordan Hassiem, Jonathan Barzl, Kurddvan Abduljabbar, Kane Wright, Ryan Vandernberg, Lucas Rossi, Michael Mitrevski, Cmile Bou-Simon

 

Cringila Lions Team:

Joel Tinker, Jarryd King, Daniel Ramirez, Daniel Wagus, Todd Sparks, Caius Don, Mikat Awad, Joel Craig, Joel Taddeo, Hironari Jobayashi, Daniel Atkins, Esala Ali, Christian Cevenini, Daichi Murashita, Daniel Vasilevski, Brynley Richards

 

Main Referee: Steve Bozic

Assistant Referees: Jarryd Higgins

Club A/R

 

Report and photo by Emma Gilly