Tara Murray
Werribee City still has a long way to go, but it has its first win on the board in the National Premier League 2 competition.
The Bees opened their winning account on Saturday, beating Kingston City 1-0 at Galvin Park.
Bees coach Domenic Barba said it was nice to get some points on the board early in the season.
“We are just grinding our performances out so far,” he said.
“It’s great to get three points early in what is a long season.
“We’ll keep improving and hopefully provide more complete performances. Twenty of our 23 players are new players and they are still getting to know each other.
“We’re getting some pleasing results and there’s certainly big improvement for us.’
Barba said on Saturday against Kingston City they showed glimpses of what they can do. He said the key now was to be able to do that for longer.
He said they were still letting teams dictate the play too much. He said that it comes down to an understanding of playing with each other and playing to their strengths not weaknesses.
“We had a glimpse of what we can play when we play free flowing football,” he said. “We can open teams up.
“We have to do that more consistently and we’ll look more dangerous and teams will fear us.
“Our defensive game is good and we’re hard to play against. We now need to complement the other side.”
The Bees have a win, draw and loss from their first three matches and they face Dandenong City this week.
Barba said it had been a tricky start facing three of the four supposed contenders in the competition.
“We know what we are going to be up against,” he said.
“We’ll work hard and put out some honest performances which is what we have been doing.”
Western United suffered its first loss of the season, losing to Pascoe Vale, 3-0.
