Monday 19 June 2017

Sydney Olympic 2-0 Parramatta FC

Sydney Olympic have picked up another important victory, beating Parramatta 2-0 at Belmore Sports Ground on Sunday Afternoon. In a match which never reached any great heights and at times mirrored a training run, as a result of this, a bit of laziness crept into the side towards the end of the match. The most important thing however was to pick up the 3 points which we did.

Sydney Olympic controlled the match from the outset, this was unsurprising as Parramatta FC were fielding basically an entirely new squad and had a new coach in former Sydney Olympic Legend, Marshall Soper. We controlled most of the possession and we were passing it around well, but we were predictably finding it a little bit difficult to get through the ultra-defensive set-up of Parramatta. 15 minutes into the game though we did end up taking the lead somewhat fortunately, as a shot from new boy Mohamed Rahimi slipped through the Parramatta goalkeeper’s gloves to give us a 1-0 lead. We kept pressing in a bid to find the second goal, but some last ditch defending and some fine goalkeeping by Parramatta kept the score at 1-0. Disappointingly for Sydney Olympic we did allow Parramatta to have 2 very good 1-on-1 chances in the first-half, but a couple of good saves from Paul Henderson kept them scoreless. We probably should have been more in front but we went to the half-time break with a 1-0 lead.

We came out hard in the second-half, having a couple of really good chances to extend our lead. 10 minutes or so into the second-half we would eventually put one of those chances away, as Yu Kuboki got himself on the score-sheet once again this season with a nice low header to make it 2-0 to Sydney Olympic. We continued to create chances as Parramatta struggled to get out of their own half at times, but we could not add to our 2 goals. The final 20 or so minutes of the game descended into some poor play from us, giving the ball away, losing the ball in possession, poor passing and generally looking very lackadaisical out there. Although we were never really threatened by Parramatta who were just not good enough to take advantage of our poor play, there were some worrying signs from us out there. We had a great chance late on to make it 3-0 through a penalty, but Peter Makrillos missed the spot-kick, pretty much summing up the last 20 or so minutes from us.

So it was a comfortable victory for Sydney Olympic in the end. But it was not the sort of match you want to have under your belt when the really big and tough fixtures are coming up, and believe me they are coming in succession over these last 7 rounds of the season.

A mere 3 weeks since we signed Liam Youlley, he apparently has gone overseas chasing an opportunity over there, while there are also murmurings that a couple of others will be gone too, not good news.

In terms of the Club Championship, our U18’s lost 1-0 and in the U20’s we ended up with a 3-1 win.

Our next match is this Sunday Afternoon June 25, a vital game against Rockdale at Belmore Sports Ground, with Kick-Off at 3pm.

In the reverse fixture, morons connected to next week’s opponent damaged vehicles belonging to Sydney Olympic Supporters while also trying to initiate “punch-ons” with sections of the elderly Sydney Olympic Supporters. This happens on a regular basis with this mob, FNSW continues to ignore these actions & the constant provocations from this outfit masquerading as a soccer club. Hopefully Sydney Olympic is prepared for Sunday and can identify these grubs at the gate and not let them into the ground. I urge all Sydney Olympic Supporters to come out and support the club and each other this Sunday.

Get to Belmore this Sunday and support the Club.

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