Hume City remains on track for a second straight title in the FFV state league women’s soccer.
After winning state league 4 north in their first season, undefeated Hume sits on top of the state league 3 west ladder after nine matches.
Hume has the best defence in the competition and its attack end has dominated, with other teams finding it difficult to have any impact against them.
Hume coach Mus Fehmi said they were pretty happy with the position they are in.
On Sunday, Hume defeated Point Cook 8-0.
“There has been a few games we thought would be more of a challenge, while other games have been challenging,” Fehmi said.
“We just go on with the job each week.
“There’s a lot of talent in the squad, the trick is to get them working as a team.
“It’s working well so far. It’s been better than expected.”
Fehmi said their first aim was to consolidate last year’s side and then start to make inroads and look at promotion.
He said they had been able to do that so far, with promotion the clear goal.
“The expectations are the same every year,” he said.
“We built a squad of 15 last year, With injuries and players away, we’ve this year got a squad of 19 players.
“There’s players missing out every week, but everyone is on board.”
Fehmi said Stephanie Toleski and Elise Fehmi were two of the standout performers this season.
He also highlighted the efforts of striker
Ebru Hasan, who has scored 39 goals for
the season, including several bags of six or seven goals.
Fehmi said ultimately they would like the side to rise to National Premier League level.
He said they had a good under-16 team coming through as well, showing there is depth at the club.
“Last year we started from scratch,” he said.
“We were in division 4 and were promoted in division 3.
“The aim is to reach the NPL and try and have a crack at it.
“We’ve put things in place to get us through and so far we’ve achieved them. We’re putting in a lot of work.”
Hume’s National Premier League men’s
side returned to the winners’ list with a hard-fought win against Melbourne Knights
in the National Premier League on
Friday night.
Hume opened the scoring in the third minute and made it 2-0 after 11 minutes, when Brad Blumenthal found the back of the net.
Tommy Uskok got one back for the Knights in the 24th minute.
Hume playing coach Nick Hegarty made it 3-1 for Hume in the 63rd minute, before a late penalty and conversion resulted in a consolation goal for the Knights, Hume winning 3-2.
In NPL2 west, Whittlesea Ranges had a 3-1 loss to North Geelong Warriors.
