The Melton Phoenix has continued its strong start to the State League 4 season with a win against Brimbank Stallions on Saturday.
Following their opening round win, the Phoenix players showed they’ll take little time adapting to the higher standards of their new league by blitzing the Stallions in the opening half before taking a 4-1 win.
The Phoenix took a little while to get going, with some poor passing leaving the door open for Brimbank to hit the scoresheet first through a lob over Melton keeper Chris Vassallo 10 minutes in. That seemed to spark the visitors into action, with Melton dominating the next 20 minutes to slot home three goals in a display of precision passing and execution.
Brimbank fell apart in the wake of the Phoenix onslaught, with Mark Redman sweeping brilliantly across the backline.
Taking a 3-1 lead into half-time, the visitors sealed the game in the first 10 minutes after the resumption.
Phoenix coach Theo Karapanagiotidis said his team’s recovery impressed him.
“For 15 minutes Brimbank really didn’t touch the ball; they had nothing. As a coach you want that to happen from start to finish, but it’s pretty hard to do that for 90 minutes all in all it was a good day out.”
