Inaugural Westfield FFA Cup Champions Adelaide United and last year’s Finalists Sydney FC became the first two teams into the Semi Finals of this year’s competition after both secured convincing victories on Wednesday night.
Graham Arnold’s Sky Blues exacted a measure of revenge against Melbourne City FC, the team that defeated them in last year’s Final in Victoria, winning 2-0 at Leichhardt Oval.
Defender Jordy Buijs gave Sydney the lead with a stunning free kick in the seventh minute, before Alex Brosque doubled the Sky Blues’ advantage six minutes after half time to keep Arnold’s men on track to qualify for their second straight Final.
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In last night’s other Westfield FFA Cup 2017 Quarter Final Adelaide attacker Nikola Mileusnic netted a hat-trick to help his side to the final four of the competition.
Mileusnic scored in the third, 11th and 61st minutes of the match at Olympic Village as Marco Kurz’s men ended Heidelberg’s Westfield FFA Cup run.
Next Wednesday evening the eyes of Australian football fans will turn to Lily Homes Stadium in Seven Hills and CBUS Stadium in Queensland as the second bout of Quarter Finals are played.
Blacktown City FC (NSW), Western Sydney Wanderers FC, Gold Coast City FC (QLD) and South Melbourne FC (VIC) will each being vying to join Sydney FC and Adelaide United in the final four.
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Blacktown’s clash with Western Sydney will be broadcast LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on FOX SPORTS, while Gold Coast City FC’s game against South Melbourne FC will be streamed LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on the foxsports.com.au website. Both games will kick off at 7:30pm.
The draw for the Westfield FFA Cup 2017 Semi Finals will be made at the completion of next Wednesday night’s fixtures LIVE on FOX SPORTS. The draw will also be streamed on www.theffacup.com.au website, as well as www.foxsports.com.au.