When? Sunday 6 December, 2020, 1.30 kick off  

Where? Bluewater Stadium, Tamatea

What happened last time?

Canterbury Dragons and Hawke's Bay United played twice last season with a 2 all draw down South and 2-1 win to Hawkes Bay United at Bluewater Stadium.

They say

Chris Greatholder, Hawke’s Bay United head coach

“Looking forward to being back at Bluewater for a home game. We’ve had a couple of tough away trips obviously, Team Wellington and Auckland, and we've gone and given decent accounts of ourselves to be fair. We played quite well in both games and arguably should have got more points than we have but you know we've got to take our lessons and work as hard as we can to make sure that we are as good as we can be against Canterbury. The standard of the league is really good and three points are so valuable. Canterbury have had a tough start as well, so it's a massive game for both.

“We think we've done lots of good work without the ball and our organization and the setup has been good, it’s been pleasing, and now we've got to find our patterns of play with the ball get the right behaviours at the right times to make sure we're hurting the opposition in the areas that we want to. Should be a good matchup, I’m sure they're looking forward to it too and we will obviously be as determined as we can to put three points on the board!”

Squads as at Friday 4 December

Hawke’s Bay United

1 GK Scott MORRIS 2 James HOYLE 3 Jackson WOODS 7 Jesse RANDALL 8 Karan MANDAIR 10 Gavin HOY 11 Kailan GOULD 12 Samuel PICKERING 14 Ahmed OTHMAN 17 C Fergus NEIL 20 Bill ROBERTSON 4 Kaeden ATKINS 16 James MACK III 21 Oscar MASON 22 Jarrod MCKECHNIE 23 Jorge AKERS

Canterbury United Dragons

22 GK Danny KNIGHT 4 Andrew STORER 5 C Tom SCHWARZ 9 Garbhan COUGHLAN 10 Ihaia DELANEY 11 Seth CLARK 12 Samuel FIELD 14 Sean LIDDICOAT 16 Cory MITCHELL 18 Yuya TAGUCHI 19 Lyle MATTHYSEN 1 GK Edward ASHTON 7 George KING 8 Luke TONGUE 20 Jacob RICHARDS 23 Edward WILKINSON

Officials

Referee: Chris BENNETT) Assistant referee 1: Mark RULE Assistant referee 2: Trent PEDLEY 4th official: Gareth SHEEHAN

Article added: Sunday 06 December 2020