By, Danny Caro
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ByDanny Caro, Danny Caro
North London Raiders came from a goal down to draw with Oakwood A who produced a resilient performance with 10 men on Matchday 9 of the MGBSFL, while Athletic Bilbaum earned one of the results of the day, holding first division leaders Lions B 2-2 and Mill Hill Dons came from four goals down to draw with Faithfold B.
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DANNY CARO'S MONTHLY AWARDS - OCTOBER
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MATCHDAY 9 RESULTS
PREMIER DIVISION
Oakwood A 1 NL Raiders A 1
Woodford 1 SPEC FC 0
DIVISION 1
Faithfold A 3 Oakwood B 3
Finchley City 3 Hendon Utd B 2
ML Lions B 2 Athletic Bilbaum 2
DIVISION 2
FC Team B 1 Real Hendon 4
Mill Hill Dons 4 Faithfold B 4
RC UK FC 7 Boca Jewniors 0
Redbridge JC C 1 NL Raiders C 1
Temple Fortune 3 L'Equipe 3
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JC HAT-TRICK HEROES
Div 2 - Jonti Aremband 4, Avi Markiewicz (both RC UK FC)
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DANNY CARO'S MATCHDAY 9 AWARDS
MANAGER: Nicky Shinder (Athletic Bilbaum)
GOAL OF THE WEEK: Jordan Sharifia (Temple Fortune)
SAVE OF THE WEEK: Mark Glucksman (L'Equipe)
REFEREE: Steve Russell (Mill Hill Dons vs Faithfold B)
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TEAM OF THE WEEK: THE CONTENDERS
GK - Dov Owen (Real Hendon), Bradley Segal (Finchley City FC)
DEFENDERS - Parys Hammond (RC UK FC), Ricky Fox, Adam Shafron (both Woodford Wanderers), Alex Lee, Dale Bradman, Lee Warner, Harvey Kaye (all Oakwood A), Gav Krieger (Finchley City FC), Barnaby Powell (Athletic Bilbaum)
MIDFIELDERS - Leor Harel, Avi Mocton (both RC UK FC), Dan Rose (Oakwood A)
STRIKERS - Jonti Aremband (RC UK FC), Avi Markiewicz (RC UK FC), Sam Cantor (Oakwood A)
MANAGER Nicky Shinder (Athletic Bilbaum), Joel Holder (Finchley City)
REFEREE
Email nominations to dcaro@thejc.com
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GOAL OF THE WEEK: THE CONTENDERS
- ZACK COLLINS (Oakwood A) - pure class from a brilliant, tricky winger. Brilliant Oakwood addition
- ZVI NOE (Real Hendon) – latched on to a clearance from a corner and smashed his shot into the top corner from the edge of the box
- JONTI AREMBAND (RC UK FC) – collected a defence-splitting ball from Leor Harel before beautifully dinking the ball over the goalkeeper
- JORDAN SHARIFIA (Temple Fortune) – one touch to set himself up and curl in a 30-yard screamer
- DANIEL SINCLAIR (Finchley City FC) - 20 yards out and bent an unstoppable strike into the top corner with his left foot
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SAVE OF THE WEEK: THE CONTENDERS
- JORDAN DAVIDSON (Woodford Wanderers) – preserved a clean sheet with a match-winning save, tipping over a deflected effort
- JAKE DOFFMAN (NL Raiders A) - a wonderful late save from Sam Cantor’s free-kick
- MARK GLUCKSMAN (L'Equipe) - With L'Equipe holding on to a slender lead, Temple Fortune's talisman Aron Barnes was through on goal with the L'Equipe No. 1. Despite going to ground, Glucksman managed to steer the ball seemingly past the keeper, however somehow Glucksman managed to stick out his size 24 feet and tip the ball round the post. A save any Leeds legend would have been proud of
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK: THE CONTENDERS
- SAM MARCHANT (ML Lions B) - "Bilbaum came to Rowley Lane clearly fired up and wanting to get some points on the board for the season having had a rough start, and they did exactly that"
- RIC BLANK (Oakwood A) - "The real coup for us that Dan Cohen had turned up to watch and Kristall had had the foresight to name him on the bench as our 16th man. We were so lucky to be able to call on such a great keeper 45 seconds into such a big game. So while we felt hard done by to be playing with 10, we could count our lucky stars that we weren’t hit with the double whammy of throwing an outfield player in net"
- DAN SHAFRON (NL Raiders A) - "Regarding the sending off, from where I was standing it didn’t seem much and having watched the video back, it was very unfortunate for the Oakwood goalkeeper. We had a similar situation a few weeks ago, almost an identical scenario with Jake but we appreciate the referee only has a split moment to make a decision with no assistance and their decision is final. These things happen and Oakwood dealt with it very well. They restructured, sat very deep with everyone behind the ball and to their credit defended excellently and made it tough for us to break them down"
- NICK STERN (L'Equipe) - "With only 11 players able to make it this week, and playing against a full-strength Temple Fortune, including the "absent Aron Barnes," who magically appeared, we put in a performance that I was so so proud of"
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CUP DRAWS
PETER MORRISON TROPHY ROUND TWO DRAW
CYRIL ANEKSTEIN CUP ROUND THREE DRAW
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YOUR WEEKEND REVIEW STARTS HERE:
MGBSFL PREMIER DIVISION
OAKWOOD A 1 NORTH LONDON RAIDERS A 1
Ten-man Oakwood produced a resilient performance to draw 1-1 against defending champions North London Raiders.
Zack Collins gave Oakwood a first-half lead that was cancelled out by Alex Moss.
Oaks joint-manager Ric Blank told JC Sport: "Overall we’re obviously disappointed to drop two points in a game we felt so confident of winning. I’m certain Raiders will realise what that game would have been like 11 vs 11. But we will take the spirit shown in this game and do everything we can to go on a run now. Where it takes us, we will find out."
NLR boss Dan Shafron told JC Sport: "I think it was all about who got the first goal. They got it and just defended their lead resiliently. If we got it, I’m sure we would have gone on to win the game but it wasn’t to be."
DC Prediction: Oakwood 1 NLR 2
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WOODFORD WANDERERS 1 SPEC FC 0
A late strike from Craig Sandford saw Woodford Wanderers win the battle of the strugglers to register their first win in the Premier Division this season.
Woodford boss Daryl Kay told JC Sport: "We finally got our win, and it was more than deserved."
SPEC FC player-manager Ricky Lawrence told JC Sport: "The result was a bit of a kick in the teeth. Being just five minutes away from our first point of the season only to lose was a blow."
DC Prediction: Woodford 2 SPEC FC 1
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DIVISION ONE
FAITHFOLD A 3 OAKWOOD B 3
Oakwood B's promotion hopes were dealt a blow as they were forced to share the points following a six-goal thriller against Faithfold A.
Daniel Seligman, Jake Sorkin and James Abrams scored for Oakwood in a feisty affair.
DC Prediction: Faithfold 1 Oakwood 3
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FINCHLEY CITY FC 3 HENDON UNITED SPORTS CLUB B 2
Dan Polak (2) and Daniel Sinclair fired Finchley City back into the top four as they edged a five-goal thriller against Hendon B.
Finchley boss Joel Holder told JC Sport: "The boys showed a lot of character today after going behind twice."
DC Prediction: Finchley 2 Hendon 3
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MACCABI LONDON LIONS B 2 ATHLETIC BILBAUM 2
Written off before kick-off, lowly Athletic Bilbaum produced one of the results of the day to earn an impressive point against league leaders Lions B at Rowley Lane, courtesy of an injury equaliser from Sam Deaner.
Rob Rodney scored the other for the Baums, while Michael Kenley and Adam Abadi struck for the Lions.
Bilbaum's Eli Gottlieb told JC Sport: "Lions are the strongest technical side in the division, so we were pleased to bounce back twice and match them throughout the game. After a turbulent start, we look forward to pushing on and showing our true capability."
Manager Sam Marchant told JC Sport: "We weren't good enough today, it’s as simple as that. The performances all over the park didn’t warrant a victory."
DC Prediction: Lions 4 Bilbaum 0
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DIVISION TWO
FC TEAM B 1 REAL HENDON 4
Real Hendon proved far too strong for FC Team B as they secured their third league win of the season, with goals from Chaim Gothold, Bennis Slukis, Zvi Noe and Yoni Cohen.
Real player-manager Chaim Gothold told JC Sport: "We were perhaps lucky to come in at half-time 2-1 up, but upped it in the second half to run out comfortable winners."
DC Prediction: Team 1 Real 3
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MILL HILLS DONS 4 FAITHFOLD B 4
Mill Hill Dons completed comeback of the day as they rallied from from 4-0 down to draw against high-flying Faithfold via Sammy Hakimian, Zach Cohen, Adam Isaacs and Nick Phillips.
Sam Garson, Richard Fogelman, Louis Taylor and JJ Marrache were the goal men for the Superhoops.
Dons boss Brandon Hamme told JC Sport: "We went 4-0 down and it looked like the game was over, but the boys fought to the end and got a very well deserved point. It was an incredible comeback."
DC Prediction: Dons 2 Faithfold 3
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TEMPLE FORTUNE 3 L’EQUIPE 3
Temple Fortune scored late on to deny L'Equipe maximum points for the first time this season.
Andy Smith, Jon Kay and Mark Korn found the net for L'Equipe but it was Fortune who had the final say, with Jordan Sharifia, Brett Stead and Aron Barnes their marksmen.
TFFC boss Simon Linden told JC Sport: "You would think I would be satisfied with a point this morning against the league leaders, but we should have taken advantage against an under-strength L'Equipe team."
L'Equipe chief Nick Stern told JC Sport: "We will remember this point at the end of the season as one of the most important ones of the whole campaign."
DC Prediction: Fortune 2 L'Equipe 1
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REDBRIDGE JEWISH CARE C 1 NORTH LONDON RAIDERS C 1
Jimmy Castle earned Redbridge C a point in a hard-earned draw against Raiders C.
DC Prediction: RJC 2 NLR 2
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RC UK FC 7 BOCA JEWNIORS 0
JONTI AREMBAND (4) and AVI MARKIEWICZ (3) filled their boots as RC UK FC got their promotion bid on track after finishing in seventh heaven against Boca Jewniors.
RC UK boss Avi Markiewicz told JC Sport: After the disappointment of last week, we are happy to have won convincingly, but in truth it was a comfortable game."
Boca boss Anton Nyman told JC Sport: "Was 1-0 at half-time, so the score does them a lot of justice, but at the end of the day we need to bounce back from that."
DC Prediction: RC UK 5 Boca 0
