Olympic's big night out Greek derby win
GREGOR MACTAGGART
April 25th, 2010
DARWIN Olympic earned bragging rights until June after a 3-1 Greek derby win over Hellenic at Darwin Football Stadium last night.
The Reds fully deserved the three points, outplaying their fiercest rivals virtually from start to finish.
Olympic didn't waste any time taking the advantage with the deadly Ross Tsounias capitalising on a half chance in the seventh minute.
But not even that could wake Hellenic from its slumber and the Blues paid the penalty when Reds skipper Mitch Amidy put his stamp on the derby at the 31 minute mark. Amidy would not have hit any more goals sweeter than his 25-yard screamer that rocketed past Hellenic keeper Yianni Tsaknis and into the back of the net.
Having taken a 2-0 lead into the main break, Olympic continued to blunt Hellenic early in the second stanza on the back of the efforts from the twin towers of Edson Dos Reis and Matthew Moseley.
Olympic made it three when Amidy bobbed up to put away a miss-hit shot from substitute Billy Kathopoulis in the 60th minute.
And while captain Nick Fertiklis got Hellenic a consolation goal from a header 10 minutes later, the Reds faithful were celebrating a long way from the full-time whistle.
Dos Reis, Moseley, Amidy and goalkeeper Themeli Magriplis were the standouts for Olympic, with Robbie Kilmartin and Fertiklis a couple of Hellenic's better players.
Casuarina came back from a goal down to beat University Azzurri 5-3.
Azzurri served it up to the reigning premiers and led 2-1 midway through the second-half when Moses Jackson scored his second. But the Rowdies scored four goals in the last 30 minutes to extend their unbeaten start to the 2010 Habitat Premier League season.
And after going more than a year without a win, Palmerston made it two on the trot with a 1-0 win over Port Darwin on Friday night.
Michael Prentice scored the only goal of the game late in the first half to move the Satellite City club into the top four.
PALMERSTON 1 (M Prentice 42) d PORT DARWIN 0; CASUARINA 5 (S Piper 19 pen, T Casimiro 63, I Mukhlis 74, D Potae 89, L Rodrigues 90+3) d UNIVERSITY AZZURRI 3 (M Jackson 22, 61, E Avrio 90+2 pen); DARWIN OLYMPIC 3 (R Tsounias 7, M Amidy 31, 60) d HELLENIC 1 (N Fertiklis 70).
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