Round 5 Preview – Futsal Premier League Open Women’s

Women’s Futsal Premier League round-five Saturday offers Campbelltown Quake against Inner West Magic, Eastern Suburbs Hakoah host Mascot Vipers, UTS Northside play Mountain Majik, and Enfield Allstars face Boomerangs FS.

Campbelltown Quake                 Inner West Magic                      Minto Sports Stadium                3.50pm Saturday 19 October

Eastern Subs Hakoah                Mascot Vipers                           All Sorts Sports Centre               5.30pm Saturday 19 October

UTS Northside                          Mountain Majik                          PCYC Dee Why                        5.40pm Saturday 19 October

Enfield Allstars                          Boomerangs FS                        Morris Iemma Sports Centre       6.50pm Saturday 19 October

Campbelltown Quake v Inner West Magic

It’s a Saturday-afternoon match-up for the ages when Campbelltown Quake face defending champions Inner West Magic at Minto Sports Stadium.

Inner West may hold the wood over Campbelltown over the past eight years with a 9-4 success-rate (one draw), including a jaw-dropping current streak of seven-straight against Quake.

However, just three of the total 13 wins have blown out past two goals, and the hosts are in hot form this summer and have claimed the last four Minto scalps.

Not that it’ll bother Magic much; they’re coming off a 12-0 win over Enfield and are on a scintillating 10-game unbeaten run away from home – one more and they overtake Mascot’s high-mark from the last eight years, set six summers ago.

Eastern Suburbs Hakoah v Mascot Vipers

Eastern Suburbs Hakoah versus Mascot Vipers will have a distinct Latin flavour at All Sorts Indoor Sports Centre on Saturday evening.

There’s Brazilians on every side as Easts face joint-first Mascot and there was plenty of spice last summer to add even more heat to this season’s plate.

Both 2018 games were held at All Sorts, the first saw Hakoah smash Vipers 9-2 thanks to a four-goal haul from Tamires Souza before Mascot turned the tables with a 5-3 win next time round on the back of a Paloma Goncalves Oliveira hat-trick.

Easts will have to dent the Vipers triple-threat of Marcella Santos (7 goals), Mariel Hecher (5) and Natasha Aitken (6) to have a serious shot at a result. Souza has six goals for Hakoah this summer.

UTS Northside v Mountain Majik

Last-season finalists UTS Northside and Mountain Majik battle it out at PCYC Dee Why on Saturday evening.

The sides are living separate circumstances so far with fourth-placed UTS right in the mix six points off the leaders, while Mountain languish near the bottom with one point to their name.

Majik will set a club-record win-less run should they not get up this weekend, and four-straight road losses isn’t a great sign either – nor is the stat showing Northside 7-4 ahead in their head-to-head fix, claiming the last five outings including both times they’ve met at Dee Why.

Enfield Allstars v Boomerangs FS

It looks like an early wooden-spoon battle when Enfield Allstars face Boomerangs FS at Morris Iemma Indoor Sports Centre on Saturday night – and what a fight it should be!

The visitors head Enfield by a point on the table and claim a commanding 4-1 lead on their historical ledger (one draw), but Allstars have one big advantage… the game’s being held in Sydney, a town Boomerangs haven’t won in since late-2013 for a total of 13 successive road defeats.