Having sprung the ranked defence Paul Hughes fires home our opening goal against Desired Opponent.

DOP came to the LJG with damage limitation in mind this afternoon, but despite parking the bus they still left on the wrong end of a 4-0 scoreline.

It was a tough afternoon for Joe Anderson’s side however, but they stuck to their task and came out with the three points they wanted.

Brook Street suffered an early setback when Kari Kienberger was forced out of the game with a foot injury after only thirteen minutes, and was replaced by Jake Ward.

The home side quickly put this behind them and set about assaulting the visitors’ defence again.

Finally, after twenty minutes Brook Street made the important breakthrough when a sharp interchance of passes in midfield released Paul Hughes who broke through before firing home across Mohsen Al-Khulaifi in the DOP goal.

Brook Street continually attempted to break through before half-time but chances were sporadic and even then a mixture of the woodwork, Al-Khulaifi and poor finishing kept the score at 1-0.

The home side were given a fright just before the hour make when in a rare venture forward DOP were given a corner, from which Ghiblin Van Wemmel flicked the ball onto the post.

Janko Fila picked the DOP bus lock again with a tremendous solo run to put Brook Street two-up after sixty-six minutes and from then on the outcome was not in doubt.

Brook Street piled on the pressure as the half progressed and eventually managed to get a third goal. Balázs Polyák got on the end of a corner and his attemot broke to Jake Ward who back-heeled it home.

Adam Doyle was left scratching his head a minute later, fluffing his lines after Brook Street had been given a penalty, but the cheers of the small band of away fans were quickly silenced when Jackie Underhill wrapped up the scoring eleven minutes from time with his seventh goal of the season.

“It’s a good win for us”, admitted Brook Street coach Joe Anderson afterwards. “They came to defend and we sitll found a way through and got a solid win”.

“They caught us on the hop by parking the bus but that’s always something you have to contend with”, added Joe.

“Fortunately we were a match for that. Parking the bus is ok but it draws the opposition right on top of you and, if you don’t press you’re just inviting trouble”, he added.

“We scored some great goals today, Janko Fila’s standing out, but we didn’t finish off as many chances as we should have”, he continued, “and that’s something we might have to address”.

Asked about Kari Kienberger’s condition he replied, “Kari has injured his foot. I don’t know any more than that at the moment . The doc and physio are shecking it out but I don’t have anything to add at present.

It was pointed out to Joe that Brook Street Athletic are now top of the league, being the only side with maximum points.

He replied, “I didn’t realise that to be honest; that’s nice. To be honest, unless this is the final week of the season it doesn’t mean anything”.

He continued, “We’ve been in this kind of position lots of times over the past seven or so seasons and at the end of the day it counted for nothing. I won’t be counting my chickens”.

Elswhere, Wick Academy and Balvenie United share six goals, Athletico Machrie picked up their first points of the season with a 2-0 win over Danny’s American, while Long Shot edged out Falkland 1-0.