Newcastle Olympic come away with a 4-1 win and a 0-0 draw from Adamstown Rosebud

Round 19 of the 2025 Northern NSW NPL competition is one that should quickly be forgotten by Newcastle Olympic! Apart from the points secured by both Reserve Grade and First Grade, it had little to offer as a football spectacle.

Newcastle Olympic Reserve Grade faced Adamstown Rosebud with a depleted line-up reminiscent of the game with Broadmeadow Magic! The difference however, in the game against Magic, we dominated the shots on target by 12-7 whereas in this games, Adamstown dominated by 7-5!

The first half was so poor as a spectacle, a stark contrast to the first half of the wash out game against Belmont on Tuesday night, that spectators were treated to two shots on goal by Olympic, to Adamstown’s one!

The only incident of note in the first half was a simple tap in goal by Nikolai Zervas that gave us the lead until the 55^th minute when Adamstown equalized with a header from a free kick outside the box! Indeed, the score remained 1-1 until the 68^th minute when Oliver Steinerts finished off a good move with a shot to the far post which the Adamstown goalie could not reach.

Charlie Halls won a penalty in the 79^th minute which he converted to a goal to bring the score to 3-1 in Olympics’ favour while youngster Ibrahim Kamara scored a great goal in the second last minute of the game to make it 4-1.

Newcastle Olympic First Grade entered this game trying to secure the three points against an Adamstown team second from bottom with the second worse defence in the league! The end of the first half produced only one shot on target by each team and naturally a 0-0 scoreline! The same 0-0 scoreline stayed until the end with Adamstown having five shots on target to Olympics’ 3!

This result means that Newcastle Olympic drop into 6^th spot on the ladder, frog leaped by Lambton Jaffas, ahead of next week’s clash with undefeated league leaders Edgeworth Eagles.