South were hoping to take some momentum from last week’s solid win over Kingborough into this night fixture against third placed Glenorchy Knights, however squad changes had to be rung again as Nicholas Di Falco, Jo Yeong-Sun and Greg Downes went out and Nick Cuthbertson, Elliott Lovell and ‘Sanga’ Kang came in.

The opening 15 minutes was a tight affair with an arm wrestle in midfield meaning that clear cut chances were scarce until some excellent approach work by Elliott Lovell on the left flank delivered a chance for Seth Otte whose side volley flew just wide of the goals with the Knights keeper stranded. This was followed up shortly after when Song’s shot from 25 metres out just cleared the crossbar.

While South Hobart Reserves led the Southern Premier League Reserves competition by 9 points heading into this fixture, it still shaped as a crunch game against the only side to take points off the league leaders this season. 

While South haven’t been in sparkling form in recent weeks, they welcomed back regular custodian Mark Moncur while Cam Williams and Elliott Lovell resumed their regular starting positions in defence and midfield respectively and Wook Bum Heo ( or ‘Kaka’) was also a quality inclusion.

South hit the ground running when in the 10^th minute, a cross from Seth Otte found David Cooper who expertly controlled the ball and shot on the turn to score inside the right hand post.