Avi’s on the mark again as rusty Rovers pull clear
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FOOTBALL Jeremy Brown praised hisdefendersforaresilientperformance as London Rovers marched seven points clear at the top of MGBSFL Division Three with a crucial victory over promotion rivals King Crown.
Rovers forged ahead via an own goal on30minutes.Crownfoughtbackadmirably but they were unable to breach a well-drilled defence and eventually succumbed to their third consecutive defeat of the season thanks to a magical strike from Avi Markiewicz.
He moved on to 19 goals for the season with a stunning 87th-minute effort from 40 yards.
Rovers boss Jeremy Brown said: “We didn’t start that well which was due to not having played in so long, but once we got going we showed why we are top of the league.
“Crown used the ball well but they couldn’t get past our back four. It’s a huge win for us and sets us up for the final run-in.”
Faithfold B returned to winning ways, with Dave Sherman, Leor Harel, Dan Gordon and Ashley Ilsen on target in the 4-0 demolition of KS Reunited.
Darren Zitren fired Temple Fortune to their second win of the season against high-flying Real Sosobad. Fortune boss Jonathan Cohen said: “On the whole a point a piece might have been a fair result, but I’m happy to have a bit of luck for once.”
Avi Mocton, Benni Sluckis (2), Saul Cohen, Jono Nesbitt and Jamie Grossman eased Hendon B to their sixth win of the season. Commenting on the 6-1 success over Maccabi London Lions Green, Hendon boss Adam Glekin said: “We dominated the game from start to finish and my only criticism is that we weren’t clinical enough.”
FC Team B continued their merci- less march towards the Division Two title with a crushing 5-0 victory over in-form Raiders C. Richard Salmon (2), Lorian Madanes, Andy Sheena and Jon Breger wrapped up Team’s 10th win in 12 games.
Team boss Mitch Young said: “This was a case of total domination, it should have been 10. We have not conceded a goal in six-and-a-half hours of football andcreditmustgotoourdefenderswho have been flawless.” Dan Beresford described AC Mill 5-4 victory over promotion rivals
as their “performance of the season”. Ben Zloof (3) and Jonny Kaye edged them home. Adam Stolerman (3) and Matt Davis found the net for Team. Beresford said: “I thought it was all going to go wrong, but we held on for a massive three points.”
AC Whetstone climbed out of the relegation zone, with Jonah Gordon Boyd, Toby Nathan, Josh Silverman and Dan Cohen finding the net in the 4-2 victory at Oakwood B. Dan Ash and Charlie Cohen struck for Oakwood. A treble from Johnny Haik eased relegation fears as they
3-2 in overcame the Premier Division.
Dan Baneth (2), Rob Hershkorn and Sam Bennett fired Camden Park to the top of Division One in a 4-0 win over Athletic Bilbaum. But having played more games than promotion rivals Raiders B and Redbridge B, Camden’s Max Saunders said: “We will now be looking for results to go heavily in our favour to give us any chance of promotion.”
SPEC FC moved to within three points of mid-table rivals Blizzard Storm thankstostrikesfromMarcCohen,Ricky Lawrence and Elliot Wallis.