Mosgiel canes depleted Varsity
MOSGIEL scored eight unanswered goals to beat Otago University in the ODT Southern Championship on Saturday.
With the holidays decimating the side, University coach Darren Hart did well to field a team.
Regan Coldicott scored a quick fire brace to have Mosgiel 20 up after six minutes.
He completed his hattrick in the 39th minute after Dan Gruppelaar and two to Riley Anderton made the halftime score 60
Coldicott bagged another in the 62nd minute and Anderton completed the scoring in the 81st minute.
A Roslyn Wakari beat Green Island, 31.
Green Island started the better of the two teams, sending a few balls into the box that tested the Roslyn defence.
An aerial challenge between Roslyn’s Nick Treadwell and Island keeper Stewart Catto resulted in Catto dislocating his finger and being replaced by outfielder Brad Holdridge.
Roslyn took a 10 halftime lead, which was soon doubled by Cam Anderson.
Green Island countered immediately when Matt Brazier was brought down in the box and Tom Milton slotted the penalty. Nick Treadwell sealed a 31 win for Roslyn with a header.
A Northern continues to impress under the tutelage of coach Luiz Uehara and came away with an impressive 11 draw against Caversham.
Following a goalless first half, Caversham took the lead from the penalty spot.
Northern regained parity when a corner was swung over and youngster En Watanabe was on hand to ensure a share of the points.
KAZAN, Russia: Teenager Kylian Mbappe scored two goals in four minutes to send a youthful France charging into the World Cup quarterfinals with a thrilling 43 win over Argentina yesterday that sent Lionel Messi’s team home.
The 19yearold forward’s electric pace caused Argentina problems all afternoon and his twin strikes helped France overturn a 21 deficit and set up a meeting against Uruguay, which later beat Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal 21 in Sochi.
Messi provided assists for two goals at the Kazan Arena but the 31yearold was otherwise subdued in the ‘‘false nine’’ role and his fourth, and possibly final, crack at winning the World Cup was destined to end in disappointment.
While Mbappe was the most influential player on the pitch, Argentina winger Angel Di Maria and France fullback Benjamin Pavard fought a private contest for the best goal of the match with two magnificent longrange strikes.
Di Maria’s goal cancelled out Antoine Griezmann’s early penalty for France just before the break while Pavard’s in the 57th minute levelled the scores at 22 after Argentina had edged ahead through Gabriel Mercado.
Mbappe, the first teenager since Brazilian great Pele, in the 1958 final, to score two goals in one World Cup match, then took over to send Argentina slumping out of the finals before the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002.
‘‘If I am a coach it is because I want to live this — a full stadium, highlyexperienced teams,’’ France coach Didier Deschamps said.
‘‘Our team is much younger, but it’s there. We answered the call, we have a lot of character and it was not easy . . but we kept fighting.’’
Uruguay forward Edinson Cavani scored a stunning brace to lead the South Americans to a 21 win over European champion Portugal yesterday.
Cavani switched play with a long cross to Luis Suarez and continued his run to head home a pinpoint deep cross from the Barcelona forward and give Uruguay a seventhminute lead.
Portugal defender Pepe made Uruguay pay for sitting back when he leapt unmarked to head in a cross from Raphael Guerreiro following a short corner to level the match at 11 in the 55th minute.
That was the first goal the twice World Cup champion had conceded in the tournament in Russia, but it took Cavani only seven minutes to put it back ahead at the packed Fisht Stadium overlooking the Black Sea.
The Paris St Germain forward curled in a firsttime rightfoot shot from Rodrigo Bentancur’s pass to beat Por tugal goalkeeper Rui Patricio before going off injured in the 74th minute as the Uruguay defence dug in to hold on to their lead.
‘‘Happy for what happened today, I hope we can go further,’’ Cavani said.
‘‘It’s exciting . . . there are no words to describe this. Really, really, really happy — look at our fans! I want to continue dreaming.’’
Portugal, which won Euro 2016 in France, dominated possession but its attack did not have enough bite to break through the Uruguay defence twice.
It had 61% possession, played more than double the number of passes as Uruguay and had 20 attempts compared to six from its opponent.
‘‘I think there is often a mistaken assumption that possession leads to scoring opportunities,’’ Uruguay’s longserving coach Oscar Tabarez told reporters.