Christchurch teams reach last eight

Press, 2 July 1979, Page 18

Christchurch teams reach last eight

Christchurch’s two relaining Adidas Chatham up representatives. Wool--ton W.M.C. and Trans Tours United, won through to the quarter-finals of the competition with contrasting fourth round victories in Christchurch on Saturday. Three first half goals made Woolston’s task much easier and it beat the southern zone qualifying league team, Mosgiel. 3-0, at Garrick Park, while United, in a generally disappointing performance, beat Dunedin City, 2-0, at Queen Elizabeth II Park, Woolston played well to win a quarter-final place. Colin Chisholm, its centre back, scored the first goal, Stan McGaffin added the second and a header from Brent Simpson rounded off the scoring. In spite of trailing by three goals, Mosgiel battled hard and did enough to keep the Woolston defence on its toes. The feature of Mosgiel’s play is a determination to attack whenever possible. This is borne out in its qualifying league results. It leads the competition, has averaged about four goals a game, and is unbeaten. It had chances to score in the second half, but found itself up against a strong inform defence. Woolston looked impressive when moving forward and the absence of its talented midfield player, Peter Bennie, through injury, did not seem to make much difference to the team performance.

In contrast. United had to withstand a strong first half challenge from Dunedin City before scoring twice after the interal as the City players seemed to tire and lose heart. Both sides were guilty of some casual play, particularly early on, but City, through the efforts of its lively strikers, Mike Glubb, Jack McGillivray and Steve Wooddin, did ‘ look dangerous. Wooddin and McGillivray played several hard low crosses in front of the United goal, but they alf

passed across the face of tht goal without being touched Wooddin, as he did in City'! Rothmans League game ii Christchurch in April, ten ded to fade during the seo ond half. He still stood clearly above his team-mate! in terms of skill.

While City created severa chances in the first half United had only one clea! cut opportunit}' when Kevis Mulgrew rounded the CitJ goal-keeper, Chris Black, but he chose to shoot himself from a difficult angle. Th< shot hit the side-netting. McGillivray missed City's best chance in the mate! when he slammed a shot over the bar from a Glubt cross when six metres out He had a couple of strong drives from the edge of th* penalty area, but the United goal-keeper, Peter Moot, looked generally safe. Johann Verweij headed the ball over the bar and lan Marshall almost caught Black off guard with a deln cately-judged lob from th* edge of the penalty area. The playing surface was * little greasy and this led ttj Gordon McDonald, the Citij striker, slipping just before getting on to a good ball from Glubb. Had he kept his footing, he could have given City the lead. Eight minutes into th* second half, United’s captain, lan Park, scored with a fine header from a corner ( and from then on United looked more assured. One minute from the end, Steve Sumner capped off good work by Frank McKay on the right wing by scoring from close range. Between these goals. Bobby Almond found himself at the wrong end of th* pitch and his left foot effort was scrambled clear by the City defence; Marshall had a strong 23-metre shot blocked; and McKay and Doug Hemmings, the City mid-field player, were cautioned by the referee (Mt John Cameron), who impressed in his use of the advantage rule whenever pos-