Sydney FC 5 (Kamsoba 7’, Burgess 22’, Le Fondre 58’, Barbarouses 83’, Buhagiar 117’) Newcastle Jets 0
Sydney FC’s good start to pre-season has continued with a behind closed doors friendly win over Newcastle Jets today.
For the second time in two games the Sky Blues notched five goals in a match which was played over three 45 minute periods.
GALLERY: A Selection Of Photos From The Game
GOALS: Watch The Goals From The Game
Moments That Mattered:
KAMSOBA GOAL – 7’ – Kamsoba dispossesses Jets centre half Warland and slides the ball under the keeper.
OFF THE LINE – 19’ – Le Fondre clears the ball off his own goal line after a cross to the back post is headed towards goal.
BURGESS GOAL – 22’ – Le Fondre’s pressing forces the mistake from the centre half who give the ball away to Retre. The midfielder releases Le Fondre who passes sideways to Kosta and he lays off the ball for Burgess to finish.
KAMSOBA SHOT CLEARED OFF LINE – 25’ – King gets to the by-line and pulls the ball back to Kamsoba who shoots but cleared off line. Burgess picks up the ball in the next phase and send it just over the bar.
REDMAYNE SAVE + POST – 39’ – Penha’s fierce long range shot is well saved by Redmayne and Siatravanis put the rebound off the post before it’s cleared.
LE FONDRE HITS BAR – 41’ – After a great bursting run from Van der Saag on the right, he feeds the ball to Le Fondre out left. The Englishman cuts inside and curls a dipping shot off the bar.
BURGESS SHOT TIPPED OVER – 50’ – After a superb ball from Brattan to King on the left, the full back finds Burgess inside and the midfielder unleashes a shot which the keeper Duncan tips over.
PENHA SENT OFF – 50’ – Penha is sent off for second bookable foul on Brattan as he made the superb pass. O’Doherty is brought on as a replacement.
LE FONDRE GOAL – 58’- King finds Burgess who plays a reverse pass to Le Fondre in the channel. The striker hits a calm left foot finish into the corner.
REDMAYNE SAVE – 63’ – Redmayne produces a full length save to deny Silvera.
BARBAROUSES GOAL – 83’ – Sydney FC break on the counter and Brattan clips a ball into the box for Barbarouses to get his foot to the ball and lift it beyond the keeper.
BRILLIANT HEWARD-BELLE DOUBLE SAVE – 95’ – Cimenti comes inside an shoots but Heward-Belle dives full length to tip the ball onto the bar and then is up quickly to push Yuel’s header around the post.
SMYTH SHOT SAVED – 107’ – A scramble in the box falls to Luka Smyth who has a shot on goal saved by the keeper legs.
HEWARD BALL LOW SAVE – 115’ – Sydney FC lose the ball in the box and Yuel shoots but Heward-Belle is down quick to save.
BUHAGIAR SAVE – 117’ – Hollman plays the ball through to Buhagiar who in his trademark way gets clear of the defence and finishes into the corner.
What They Said: Steve Corica: “That was another good workout for the boys to get even more minutes in their legs. Most boys got through 90 minutes and others 60-70.
“We had five different goal scorers as well which bodes well and the younger boys in the final period did well for themselves and got some good minutes in too.
“It was good to see Anthony Caceres and Trent Buhagiar return from injury and now we are looking forward to getting the boys together at our training camp in Wollongong.”
Sydney FC have produced a second pre-season 5-0 win defeating Newcastle Jets at the Sky Blues training ground.
Goals from five different scorers did the damage in a game which lasted for three 45 minutes periods.
Kamsoba opened the scoring taking the ball off Jets defender Riley Warland and finishing with a side foot pass in seven minutes.
Burgess made it two in 22 minutes, finishing off a slick move involving Le Fondre, Retre and Barbarouses.
A high tempo and sometimes ill-tempered game resulted in the dismissal of Penha for a second foul on Brattan.
Both Sydney FC and the Jets hit the woodwork and had efforts cleared off the line before Le Fondre added to Sydney FC’s lead just before the hour after good work from Burgess.
Barbarouses’ clever flick from a clipped Brattan cross made it 4-0 before the 90 minutes were up.
The Sky Blues made a host of substitutions ahead of the final 45 in which Heward-Belle produced three fine saves and Buhagiar struck a fifth with a trademark finish.
Sydney FC: 1. Andrew REDMAYNE (20. Tom HEWARD-BELLE (GK) 90’), 2. James DONACHIE (3. Ben WARLAND 90’), 4. Alex WILKINSON (34. Aaron GURD 90’), 8. Paulo RETRE (17. Anthony CACERES 90’), 11. Kosta BARBAROUSES (25. Corey HOLLMAN 90’), 14. Adam LE FONDRE (28. Calem NIEUWENHOF 63’), 16. Joel KING (5. Connor O’TOOLE 90’), 21. Harry VAN DER SAAG (33. Jake GIRDWOOD-REICH 90’), 22. Max BURGESS (32. Oscar PRIESTMAN 90’), 26. Luke BRATTAN (12. Trent BUHAGIAR 90’), 27. Elvis KAMSOBA (29. Luka SMYTH 90’).
Unused Subs: None.
Yellow Cards: None.
Red Cards: None.
Venue: Sydney FC Training Ground
Referee: Craig Fisher
