Balfour F C - Panorama F.C. 2-4 (14 September 2016)

Date	14 September 2016
Competition	DSL Div 2 Vets Winter League
Venue	Balfour Park
Match	Balfour F C - Panorama F.C.
Final Result	2 - 4
Goals	3 Olaf Olgiati 1 Greg Bezuidenhout
Assist	1 Braydon Dixon 1 David Harris 1 Stoyan Stoychev
Yellow Cards	1 Clint Jeanes 1 Stoyan Stoychev 1 Greg Bezuidenhout 1 Jacques De Toit
Red Cards	1 Jacques De Toit
Match Report	Panorama won their second division title in 3 years thanks to a convincing victory away from home at Balfour. With the returning Dixon and with Thornton and Almeida missing  on the occasion, Panorama needed just 1 point to mathematically win the league. After 20 minutes the match seemed already over. From a corner by Harris Dixon managed to head the ball back inside the area and Olgiati offered his face to both the ball and a defender's foot to score the 1-0 from 2 yards. What a way to celebrate his 100th game for the team! 5 minutes later it was already 2-0, with Bezuidenhout taking advantage of a poor control by the goalkeeper in order to slide and score. For Bezuidenhout was the 6th successive game where he put his name on the scoresheet. Panorama dominated, exploiting the wings, and Lewis, Harris and Dixon again from a corner got close to the 3-0. Towards the end of the first half Balfour found some courage and started pushing more, pinning Panorama in their own half. But thanks to some solid defending by the back four (Wills, Dixon, Robson and Kelly) Panorama almost managed to keep Balfour's attacks at bay. Only at the end of the first half Balfour managed to score, thanks to some individual brilliance by their forward. What followed was 5 more minutes of excisting back and forth attacks. Stoychev found with a low cross Olgiati in the area, who managed to control the ball, beat two defenders, and then beat the keeper with a precise left foot. In the dying seconds Balfour managed to pull one back thanks to an unfortunate own goal by Dixon. In the second half Panorama had to endure a confusing spell, where they relied on tactical fouling to stop a resurgent Balfour. On the counter attack though they were unstoppable, and after some close chances, Bezuidenhout managed to keep alive a dead ball, cross it for Harris who dummied a shot to confuse the whole defense, finding instead Olgiati who scored his first hat trick from a close range. Later De Toit got a red card, but Panorama held the fort and brought home an important win, that sealed the Division 2 title!
GK Clint Jeanes 90   D Wayne Wills 60 D Braydon Dixon 90 OG D Mike Robson 90 D Mike Kelly 90 M Olaf Olgiati 90 M Craig Atkinson 90 M David Harris 90 M Stoyan Stoychev 90   F Greg Bezuidenhout 90   F Rushin Lewis 70 sub Jacques De Toit 20     sub Jacob Miles 20