(Men’s Summer Cup Final, KGV Park, Saturday, 14 March 2020)
Olympia Warriors 4 (J Ryan 20, 27, 33, J Khasif 90)
South Hobart 3 (K Kemp 44 pen, K Hallam 60, 84)
HT: 3-1 Ref:
T Mace
Olympia Warriors:
Smith - Gorrie, Hill, Pacey-Mayne, O’Connor - Kobayashi - D
Brown, Mearns, C Brown - Wadawu, Ryan
(Subs: Khasif, Mwarabu, N’Koso,
Randall, Moschogianis
South Hobart:
Webert - Herweynen, R Morton, Kibler, Semmler -
Larby, Kemp, Lakoseljac - Hallam, Kurdistan, Berezansky (Subs:
Evans, Juju, Tooze, Walpole, Moncur)
Olympia Warriors fell over the
line and won the Summer Cup Final 4-3 against South Hobart today.
A last-minute goal by substitute
Jackson Khasif won the match.
Olympia looked as if they would
win comfortably when they led 3-1 at the break through a Jack Ryan hat-trick,
but a penalty by Kobe Kemp in the 44th minute gave South Hobart a
glimmer of hope.
South Hobart’s youngsters rolled
their sleeves up and got stuck in after the interval and got back to 3-3 with 6
minutes remaining, but Khasif shattered their hopes with the last-minute
strike.
There was no sign of two of
Olympia’s signings from South Hobart.
Neither Ben Hamlett nor Loic Feral were named on the team sheet.
Jack Ryan proved dangerous from
the start for Olympia and within minutes he made a great run at goal but was
narrowly ruled off-side.
In the 12th minute, he
powered a header straight at South Hobart goalkeeper Chase Webert.
South Hobart were not cowered,
however, and a superb pass by Siyar Kurdistan in the 17th minute put
Sam Berezansky in on goal. He lobbed
over the goalkeeper but Lucas Hill cleared off the line while under pressure
from Berezansky, who had followed up his lob.
Olympia hit the front in the 20th
minute when Callum Brown released Ryan through the middle and he placed his
shot past Webert and into the net.
Webert produced a fine
point-blank save from Ryan in the 23rd minute after Warren Wadawu
set up his team-mate.
In the 27th minute, it
was Ryan again to make it 2-0 as he converted Lachlan O’Connor’s left-wing
cross to the far post.
Six minutes later, South Hobart
gave away possession on their left flank and former South Hobart defender Adam
Gorrie played a long ball forward into the middle and towards the edge of the
box. Reilly Morton was unable to cut it
out and the ball carried to Ryan, who advanced on goal and scored past the
unprotected Webert to make it 3-0 for the Warriors.
Olympia keeper Davis Smith
produced an excellent save from Berezansky in the 39th minute as
South Hobart worked to get back into the match.
A minute later, Kurdistans sent a
powerful shot straight at Smith.
Smith conceded a penalty in the
43rd minute when his late tackle upended Kobe Kemp, and Kemp scored
with his spot-kick to reduce the arrears.
In the final minute of the half,
Smith was called on to make an excellent save from the nippy Kasper Hallam.
Hallam came into his own in the
second half and he netted on the hour when put through the middle to beat
substitute keeper Darby Randall and make it one goal the difference.
South Hobart had recovered well
and Olympia’s defensive frailties were there for all to see.
Sam Tooze fired wide for South
Hobart in the 67th minute and they searched desperately for an
equaliser as the Warriors teetered on the edge.
South Hobart substitute Samson
Juju missed a wonderful chance in the 77th minute, but Hallam came
up with the goods 6 minutes from the end when he made it 3-3 after dribbling
past Ashton Pacey-Mayne and Lucas Hill before beating Randall.
With extra-time looming,
substitute Jackson Khasif won the game for Olympia when he ran onto a pass down
the left and beat Webert with a low shot inside the far post.
The Summer Cup is new coach
Andrew Brown’s first success with his club, Olympia Warriors.
Ned Clarke was in charge of South
Hobart in the absence of coach Ken Morton, who had hip-replacement surgery on
Thursday.
22 comments:
Olympia lucky to get out of jail.
Lucky to win on the end.
Boy have they got some work to do if they
are going to challenge for the title.
May be an expensive year with little to show other than Sumner Cup.
The title is Ports to lose. South will get better, Olympia won't. 1st 2nd and 3rd right there.
Olympia players should hand this weeks money to Ryan .... without him they would have been in big trouble ...: all momentum with South after this one
Ohhh really genius?
Please point to another NPL season since 2013 where those 3 clubs didn't win the trophies on offer. Another boring season in the NPL.
Anonymous said...
The title is Ports to lose. South will get better, Olympia won't. 1st 2nd and 3rd right there.
The old fox still has it. Name one other club that could put that performance together with 10 teenagers playing at some stage during the match.
Yep. For a club that spends as much money as Olympia. They have got to be embarrassed by how poor they looked other than Ryan.
I never said it was going to be exciting Einstein.
Well all I can see so far before season starts ( if it starts ) is that apart from Devonport probably winning again , there are going to be a lot of weird results this year with all the inconsistency shown so far .South were easily outplayed by Kingborough, Kingborough were trounced by Clebras, Knights have been wayward , Olympia show they are vulnerable at a huge cost and the rest well who knows what they might do ? Reckon we might even get a few more players caught Betting on the games and getting swept under the carpet ,One thing I do know is a positive is the Clebras women’s team are going to be unbeatable by seasons end and would foot it with a lot of the mainland teams
One person has being saying Olympia defence is not up to scratch yesterday proved they maybe right, Kasper Hallam ripped them apart he is a kid what would a Miles Barnard and or Noah Mies do to them big trouble at warrior park brewing .
Why do people care how the knights and the Olympia club spend their money? As an outsider reading this blog I just do not understand. Are clubs in tasmania told how and where to spend their money and Olympia knights club are not doing this?
to 12.51..Not at all they can both waste it how they like , its just most people here find it laughable how much they spend for the lack of on field return , i know i do its funny as
12.02. Olympia only won it once in the period you mention and were
lucky that year.
Perhaps you should check both clubs records. I hazard a guess but if you are not a Devonport or South Hobart support if so then well done but both of these clubs have won a lot more trophies than your club.
Olympia in the NPL and Knights in the Championship
yes and I think that is funny.
Your move....
to 12.51..Not at all they can both waste it how they like , its just most people here find it laughable how much they spend for the lack of on field return , i know i do its funny as
6.16.
Can you use some punctuation so we can
understand what you are talking about?
Thanks
To 6.16 , I’m not talking about the 1960’s when they played for half time oranges , I’m talking about the last 10 years after hundreds of thousands of dollars spent for the amount of silverware that would not melt down into a teaspoon ,
Checkmate
Didn’t know this comments section was a competition!?!
it is a race against anonymity Charles,first one to find an identity gets the prise.
Season will be halted. A big rumour that the schools are going to close down in the next few weeks. At this present time Prevention is the Best Medicine.
Reply to March 15, 2020 at 5:59 PM
I am far from an Olympia fan, but you can not say Olympia won by Luck. They played 21 games and had the most points at the end of the season. How is that lucky?
As well as 1 title Olympia also won 2 Laka cups. They won 4 summer cups but we will not count them. And that is only at Senior male level.
Question; is Jono Ladic still playing at Olympia?
Who cares.
Anonymous said...
Question; is Jono Ladic still playing at Olympia?
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