Despite a broken nose from last week's game, United's new Argentinian striker Ignacio Dipeanu, started again and had a
major impact on the game scoring a cracking goal from the corner of the penalty area in the 68th minute that was
instrumental in turning the game back in United's favour.
It wasn't just Diepenau though, the whole team put in a stellar performance. Buoyed by last weeks 5-0 beating of North
Wellington, they started where they had left of with Cole Hosking Berge opening the scoring in the fourth minute. The
goal had come from a through ball from midfielder Cam Stephan, who had an outstanding game, finding Michael McCutcheon
who squared the ball across the penalty area for Hosking Berg to slot in. It was a gap that United found early and
Seatoun struggled to cope with, although despite continually being beaten they would have been pleased that they had
managed to keep United from adding to their score in the first half.
Seatoun made a change at half time brining on James Day for Callum Bell and things changed. Within seven minutes they
had won a penalty. United keeper Crawford Plenderleith made a great save but couldn't hold it and Seatoun's Fraser
Norrington got the rebound into the net. The game had turned the way of Seatoun and five minutes later Markus Gustavsson
had given them the lead with a well taken goal.
While Seatoun had got the upper hand there was no way this Wellington United side were going to sit back and take
another one goal loss. They looked as if they would equalise about 10 minutes later when Diepenau broke through the
defence and only had to chip the keeper to score, his shot somewhat inexplicably going straight at the keeper instead.
He atoned for this miss a minute later when from a corner George Barbarouses had the ball and heard a call from Ignacio
who was on the corner of the penalty area and slipped the ball to him. Dipeanu hit a thunderbolt of a shot into the top
corner to even up the scores.
This gave United a real lift and turned the game in their favour. A couple of minutes later some brilliant battling play
saw Facu Dione take the ball into the penalty area and it fell nicely for Cole Hosking Berge to net his second of the
day and restore United's lead.
The last 20 minutes became United's, Seatoun did have a couple of breaks forward but were caught between chasing the
game and trying not to concede another goal. United coach Guille Schiltenwolf introduced gaston Junca for the last 10
minutes and reverted to five at the back to ensure they kept the lead. They did and the win sees United move off the
bottom of the league, but as playmaker, Leo Villa said "it's one game at a time". Something the team will be mindful off when they take on Victoria University away next weekend.