With
the 2019 NPL Tasmania title already decided more than a week ago, the main point of interest
in this weekend’s round of matches is the Golden Boot Award for the leading scorer.
Devonport
City’s Miles Barnard and Hobart Zebras’ Mathew Sanders are tied on 27 goals
going into this penultimate round of matches.
Barnard
scored eight goals last time Devonport met bottom-side Clarence United at
Wentworth Park and he revisits that happy hunting ground tomorrow at 2.30pm.
He
could easily repeat the feat, given Clarence’s record of conceding goals this
season.
Sanders
will have a much more difficult task as Hobart Zebras are away to Launceston
City at Buckby Land Rover Park today at 4.30pm in the ‘Italian Derby’.
Zebras
will be without Adam McKeown and Jordan Muller, who both played last night in
the 3-2 win over Olympia Warriors in the Challenge League, a result which
handed that competition’s title to South Hobart.
“We’ll
leave a couple of players behind [McKeown and Muller] and give a couple of kids
a run,” said Zebras coach, David Smith.
“We’ll
give young Alex Smith a run as he’s done really well for us.
“We’ll
probably also play Luke Huigsloot a little higher.
“We’re
struggling to get up at the moment [so it could be a tough game].
“We’ve
been all right at training, but they’re always a hard team to beat up there.
“They
get players back and you never know what they’ve got, but it’s more about
looking at what we’ve got.”
Second-placed
Olympia Warriors travel to Windsor Park in Launceston to take on second-last
Riverside Olympic at 2.15pm today.
A
win or a draw will ensure the Warriors of second place.
The
remaining game of the round is at South Hobart Oval tomorrow at 2pm when
third-placed South Hobart entertain fifth-ranked Glenorchy Knights.
This
will be goalkeeper Dmitri Nester’s final appearance at senior level after an
illustrious career.
South
Hobart will be without skipper Nick Morton, who sustained a broken leg in last
Wednesday’s 1-1 draw with Kingborough Lions United, who have the bye this
weekend.
NPL Tasmania (As at 28 August 2019)
TEAM
|
P
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
F
|
A
|
Pts
|
Devonport
City
|
22
|
19
|
2
|
1
|
83
|
21
|
59
|
Olympia
Warriors
|
22
|
16
|
2
|
4
|
71
|
27
|
50
|
South
Hobart
|
22
|
13
|
5
|
4
|
77
|
28
|
44
|
Hobart
Zebras
|
22
|
10
|
6
|
6
|
64
|
43
|
36
|
Glenorchy
Knights
|
22
|
9
|
2
|
11
|
54
|
41
|
29
|
Kingborough
Lions
|
23
|
8
|
3
|
12
|
40
|
48
|
27
|
Launceston
City
|
22
|
7
|
4
|
11
|
35
|
42
|
25
|
Riverside
Olympic
|
22
|
4
|
2
|
16
|
22
|
62
|
14
|
Clarence
United
|
23
|
1
|
0
|
22
|
8
|
152
|
3
|
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