Wests 1-1 Upper Hutt
I think upper hutt posse are going to struggle this year, had about 3 shots on goal the whole game. Corrales did well to score from a defensive blunder, composed 1-on-1 and rounding the keeper, but he largely had a poor performance today. Was booked for mouthing off, was further warned after the yellow and decided to get his hand bag out towards the end as well, couldve ended badly for him under another ref.
Ryan Thomas and Mo Awad were excellent. Thomas opened the scoring with a shot that took a heavy deflection off Awad, the keeper had already committed himself and was left stranded. Only some good keeping and desperate last ditched defense kept them from scoring further. Keiran Cripps had an absolute sitter in the first half from about 3 yards into an empty net but scuffed it wide, capped off a poor performance from him as well, looked really out of depth the whole game and was pulled off early in the second half.
Wasnt overly convinced with Wests either though, their finishing was poor and could cost them games, as it did this one.