Devonport Vanquish Olympia 1-0 Inward Pre-Season Friendly

Devonport City trounce Olympia Warriors 1-0 inwards a pre-season friendly at Valley Road today.

The first-half destination came from 18-year-old Max Fitzgerald, who signed for Devonport from the Gold Coast.

Devonport were missing upwardly to iv first-team regulars, piece Olympia sent a rattling immature side to the North-West Coast.

The Southerners are yet awaiting a brace of imports too another senior players were unavailable.

“It was a actually of import showtime game to larn nether our belts too nosotros won 1-0”, said Devonport’s novel coach, Rick Coughlan.

“I was pleased amongst the functioning all circular too it was a rattling positive day.

“We were missing iv primal players too thus nosotros had sixteen of our 20-man squad.

“It was almost full-strength, simply yet missing some.”

The game was played on the grooming pitch amongst the artificial surface at Valley Road.

Olympia were without Lucas Hill, Mark Ortmann, Jake Vandermey, Lachie Hardwick too Nick Mearns.

Olympia’s 2 goalkeepers, who had a one-half each, played rattling well.  Darby Randall was betwixt the posts inwards the showtime one-half too novel arrival from Western Australia, Kyle MacDonald, inwards the instant half.

"I was rattling happy amongst the boys, peculiarly inwards the showtime half," said Olympia coach, Rob Clarke.

"MacDonald is rattling experienced too organises the defense strength well."

New English linguistic communication signing Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Scott, a asset midfielder, made his debut for Olympia too played well.

There is a pre-season friendly scheduled for KGV Park tomorrow [Sunday].

At 4pm, Southern Championship sides Beachside too Nelson volition create battle.

Next Wednesday, Beachside volition accept on NPL Tasmania outfit Clarence United at KGV Park at 7pm.