Hanson hat-trick helps United to comfortable win

Press, 23 June 1986, Page 22

Hanson hat-trick helps United to comfortable win

By

DAVID LEGGAT

Three goals from the in-form John Hanson ensured Christchurch Brother United of a comfortable passage into the last 16 of the Le Coq Sportif Chatham Cup soccer competition at English Park yesterday. United was too strong for the leading Dunedin regional league side, Caversham, winning 4-0.

The characteristic of all the big striker’s goals was excellent finishing against a Caversham side which battled hard, had a particularly good opening 15 minutes in the second half, but lacked the class of the Rothmans League team where it counted.

Hanson got his first goal after 20 minutes. Breaking down the old insideright channel, he slipped away from a couple of tackles and beat the Caversham goal-keeper, Neil Barnes, expertly from an awkward angle.

A minute later, he could have added a second, shooting wide from a good position. Caversham managed

only one shot to speak of in the first 45 minutes, with the veteran attacker, Pat Berry, sending a leftfoot shot wide of the mark from outside the penalty area.

However, Caversham, led by its experienced player-coach, George Morris, took the match to its more highly regarded opponent from the start of the second half.

The United goal-keeper, Alan Stroud, in his favourite Auckland rugby jersey, might have expected a reasonably quiet afternoon. Instead he was called upon to keep United in front three times in the opening stanza of the half. Caversham’s most identifiable player, if not for reasons entirely connected with the match, was its striker, Marc Chidley. Carrying an excess of several kilograms and bearing a striking resemblance to that old favourite, Derek Gibson-Smith, Chidley nevertheless showed he had skills on the ball. Stroud was forced to athletically tip an effort

from Childley over the cross-bar; push a low drive from the left back, Neil Wright, into the side netting; and deflect a farpost header from the solid central defender, Craig Scoullar, past the upright. Gary Lund, the United > centre back, put the result beyond doubt in the sixtythird minute. Collecting the ball on the right-hand edge of the Caversham penalty area, his fine 20m volley flew over Barnes and dipped under the cross-bar.

Agustin Villazon, who came on for the injured Johan Verweij, set up Hanson’s second goal,-10 minutes from the end. His low cross from the left

was volleyed in from 7m. Seven minutes later, the pair combined cleverly to complete the scoring. Hanson set the little Chilean on his way down the left. Villazon played a good early return ball into Hanson’s path and the big man was away. He shrugged off a challenge and beat Barnes from the edge of the area.