MATCH REPORT | EXHIBITION GAME PVSC v SOUTH HOBART FC

““Our football will grow coming here and playing on a surface like that.”Ken Morton ”

Pascoe Vale has continued its pre-season preparations for the 2016 National Premier League season with a 3-4 loss to Tasmanian outfit South Hobart on Saturday afternoon.

It was the first time that Pascoe Vale had hosted the 2015 Tasmanian Victory League runners-up after the two met across the Tasman last year.

The 2014 FFA Cup participants looked sharp in the early exchanges and struck the first blow through Alex Walter, who whose sweetly struck shot from the corner of the 18-yard area rocketed into the opposite corner.

It didn’t take long for the visitors to find the net once again – this time it was Darcy Hall who snuck in behind the Paco defence to send the ball beyond Ailakis and extend his side’s lead.

Vitale Ferrante’s charges rallied in response and hauled their way back into the game, thanks to some sublime combination play between van’t Schip and Joseph Youssef. The former’s unselfish pass put the ball on a plate for the captain to calmly place the ball home.

The captain almost levelled things up a minute late with a vicious shot that forced the Hobart custodian into an excellent save. He was unable to get a touch to Youssef’s subsequent blast, which rattled the crossbar from 20 yards out.

Ken Morton’s team restored its two goal advantage ten minutes into the second stanza when Hall sent the ball flying into the goal from the right flank to the amazement of both sets of fans.

Paco wasn’t done yet though and was offered a lifeline after Youssef met Carlos Matti’s perfectly weighted free kick to hammer the ball into the goal.

What was a brace soon became a hat-trick for Youssef four minutes from time, as the skipper intelligently brought the ball down before lashing it beyond the Tasmanian goalkeeper.

The home side continued to mount the pressure in the remaining minutes, but were ultimately punished for throwing bodies forward as Matt Hess popped up at the death to clinch the win for Hobart.

Its coach Ken Morton spoke highly of the CB Smith facility and said that he is looking forward to the relationship between both his club and Pascoe Vale prospering in the years to come.

“I think this relationship with Pascoe Vale will grow and become a feature in our calendar and I think in Pascoe Vale’s calendar,” he said after the match.

“Our football will grow coming here and playing on a surface like that.”

The two sides will meet again in Hobart on February 6.
Pascoe Vale will next face Victorian opposition when it takes on Hume City at CB Smith Reserve at 11am on Saturday morning.

MATCH DETAILS
Pascoe Vale 3 (Youssef 37’, 70’, 86’) defeated by South Hobart 4 (Walter 19’, Hall 23’, 55’, Hess 90+1’) at CB Smith Reserve (HT: 1-2)

Pascoe Vale: Ailakis (gk), Talarico, Nakic, Grech, Yamaguchi, Youssef, van’t Schip, Cohen, Vannuccini, Pistininzi, Mosibe.
South Hobart: Wilson (gk), Willes, Lewis, Quallo, Feval, Hall, Kemp, Morton, Walter, Moss, Turner.

Updated 12:51 - 16 Jan 2016 by PASCOE VALE FOOTBALL CLUB