The MAC Football Academy played their first home game at Debney’s Park hosting SEDA College Talented Player Program on the 24th of May. This was to be a huge task against the older and bigger SEDA College players and was made even more challenging with goalkeeper Nik Sirko falling sick late.

After a very poor start which saw MAC concede in the first 5 minutes following a flurry of SEDA attacks, the players settled and began to think their way through the intimidating opposition. With a conscious effort to keep the ball on the ground, utilising short passes and in doing so taking out the height advantage of SEDA, MAC began to open holes.

Michael Lesanwerk was the first to score with some clever touch, and this seemed to create a dominant 20 minutes to follow. The pace of Furkan Erkan Akin and Sirak G proved too much for SEDA and MAC scored twice more before the main break. Some huge defensive efforts from Mahat Ibrahim and Mohamed Jama enabled this dominance, along with a hard working midfield.

Unfortunately SEDA came out after the break with a point to prove and controlled the second half, scoring freely along the way. Despite the result being in the negative, MAC took some enormous strides forward and we look forward to playing against SEDA again in Term 3.

Final Score – MAC 4 V SEDA 7

Goals – Michael Lesanwerk 2, Sirak G 1 & Furkan Erakn Akin 1

Best Players – Mahat Ibrahhim, Michael Lesanwerk, Mohamud Ibrahim & Furkan Erkan Akin

Location

Debney's Park