Five-star Dons on toptable
FOOTBALL DAVID Garbacz believes Hendon United A “have put themselves in a nice position” following their 5-1 success over SPEC FC in the MGBSFL Premier Division.
Two goals from Ari Last plus one apiece from Zack Lewis, Josh Haris and Yoav Lebens guided Hendon to their third consecutive victory. Jonny Kaye claimed a consolation for newly-promoted SPEC who suffered a third straight defeat.
Hendon boss David Garbacz said: “We’ve had the perfect start and belief in the squad is extremely high.”
Dan Kristall was delighted with the manner of Oakwood A’s 4-2 victory over Camden Park. Goals from David Woolman (2), Daniel Seligman and Jonny Quinn lifted Oakwood to second in the table.
Kristall remarked: “It was a comfortable win against a competitive Camden side. With several key players missing, we dug deep and played some really nice football.”
A late strike from top-scorer Reiss Mogilner earned a 1-1 draw against
Tom Alexander had put the east Londoners ahead with a long-range strike but Mogilner denied them a first win of the season.
Woodford’s Daryl Kay said: “We were without key players Harrison Midda, James Ryan and Adam Shafron, and I’m sure if we’d had had all three we’d have won comfortably, but that’s football.”
Josh Bharier and Danny Sherman fired Scrabble FC to their first win of the season. Oliver Sade pulled one back for Finchley City in a match Ray Abrahams felt Scrabble “deserved to win on the balance of play”.
Avi Kestenbaum and Jeff Gross were among the scorers as Los Blancos completed their second win of the season against Athletic Bilbaum.
Jake Gilbert and Alex Goodman fired doubles as North London Raiders B maintained their perfect record in Division One, beating Faithfold A 7-3. But the win was marred by a serious shoulder injury to David Estekin, who was joined on the scoresheet by Will Ufland and Danny Bloom.
NLR joint-manager Jonathan Adelman said: “We’re obviously happy with three wins from three but we know we can be more compact and controlled.”
Jeff Gotch described Catford & Bromley Maccabi as “unplayable” following the 7-0 destruction of Mill Hill Dons in Division Two.
Ashley Stokes (2), Craig Edwards (2), Danny Yeshua, Jamie Sinai and playermanager Gotch completed the rout.
Gotch said: “No doubt the other team will bemoan a lack of players like they all do but for the first half hour we were unplayable.”
Goals in the final 15 minutes from Jonti Aremband and David Brown earned RCUK FC a 2-2 draw against Temple Fortune.
Zach Rich (2) had put Fortune in charge, but manager Simon Linden insists “there were so many positives to take from a performance of grit and determination”.
Nick Stern praised L’Equipe “phenomenal performance” after Max Martin (3) steered them to a 5-0 victory over Andy Smith and Mark Smith also found the net.
Stern said: “FC Team gave us a good battle but everyone won their individual battles and we scored some lovely goals.”
Redbridge Jewish Care C extended their winning run as strikes from Daniel Garfinkle, Daniel Lipman, Aaron Goldberg and Jordan Sapler sealed a 4-2 win over Faithfold B.
Liam Stein and Alex Sher fired hattricks as Raiders C crushed Boca Jewniors 9-1. Alex Elf (2) and Rob Samuelson clinched the points.