Hat trick hero Jose Portillo

Hat trick hero Jose Portillo

St Albans Strikers powered on to claim a comprehensive victory in the Football Federation Victoria Futsal Cup final with a 10-4 defeat of Inner City at the Cheltenham Gymnasium.

Dino Redzepovic gave Robert Lakovski’s men a perfect start by firing in from close range in the first minute before a ferocious strike from Breno Pollati on seven minutes levelled the score line as Inner City caught St Albans on the counter attack.

Jose Portillo restored St Albans lead two minutes later before Ivan Zilic and Alija Redzepovic added two more goals to give Strikers a 4-1 lead at half-time.

Matteo De Angelis gave Inner City a slim glimmer of hop on 25 minutes only to be cancelled out straight away by Zilic’s second after good work down the left by Portillo who set up the tap in.

Dino and Alija Redzepovic added a further two more goals before Pollati tucked home a penalty for Inner City to grab his second goal of the game on 37 minutes.

St Albans then added a further three goals in the last three minutes with both Zilic and Portillo grabbing hat tricks before Antonis Apostolakis headed home a consolation goal for Inner City just before the end.

Inner City 4 – 10 St Albans Strikers

Scorers Inner City : Pollati 7, 37 pen; De Angelis 25; Apostolakis 39

Scorers St Albans Strikers : D.Redzepovic 1, 34; Portillo 9, 37, 39; Zilic 13, 25, 35; A.Redzepovic 17, 34

Inner City

  • 1 Brendan Chen (GK)
  • 4 Matteo De Angelis
  • 6 Breno Pollati
  • 10 Richard Ferguson
  • 12 Antonis Apostolakis
  • 13 Eric Huynh

St Albans Strikers

  • 4 Tomislav Grgic
  • 6 Jusuf Avdic
  • 7 Dino Redzepovic
  • 8 Ivan Zilic
  • 10 Alija Redzepovic
  • 16 Emir Ameti
  • 21 Yane Coceski (GK)
  • 22 Jose Portillo
  • 25 Liam Digby (GK)
  • 27 Clint Mogoai