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Brisbane and the Kingz have scored their first victories for the new National Soccer
League season, while Newcastle, the Pride and the Spirit will need to wait
for another day. The surprise packets so far are Sydney United who stunned an undermanned Adelaide City Force at Hindmarsh Stadium. The Brisbane Strikers turned party-poopers on a night when the football followers of Newcastle threw their weight behind the new ‘United’. A record crowd of 15,123 crammed into Marathon Stadium to urge on the team they thought they’d lost when the Breakers failed to gain admission for the new season. But they were quietened when Nick Meredith scored for the Strikers in the 42nd minute, and effectively silenced when Peter Grierson added a second for the visitors before half-time. The Northern Spirit’s new owners, Glasgow Rangers will be under-whelmed by the performance of their new franchise against Sydney Olympic at North Sydney Oval. The teams played out a lacklustre scoreless draw in a match where goal-mouth action was as scarce as Celtic shirts on the terraces. One point from the Spirit’s opening two matches is not the kind of return Rangers would expect from their new investment. Earlier this evening, the Kingz gave their home fans a treat with a come-from-behind victory over the Eastern Pride at Ericsson Stadium, Auckland. The Pride hit the front in the 10th minute when John Hutchinson’s speculative effort from outside the box was helped into the net by Juan Nilo. But 12 minutes on, striker Tim Stevens equalised for the Kingz when his glancing header from a Chris Jackson free kick squeezed inside the near post. Stevens scored his second eight minutes into the second half when he neatly trapped a cross from Aran Lines and stepped around a couple of defenders before slotting it home from close range. The visitors surged over the closing stages but couldn’t level-up for what would have been a useful away point. In Adelaide, the hosts were without injured captain Aurelio Vidmar and Italian striker Claudio Pelosi. Force coach Zoran Matic was forced into debuting Kristian Rees who was given the job on the evergreen Francis Awaritefe. And it was Awaritefe who would prove to be the difference between the two teams. His brace coming after strikes in the 17th and 29th minutes. Alan Hunter's men now sit proudly on top of the NSL ladder after consecutive wins. theworldgame |
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