After an even opening the visitors almost hit the lead in the 15th minute of play.

Sebastian Petrovic ran through the centre of the park and laid it off to Ryan O’Hare, who was on the 18 yard line but his shot along the grass was well saved by Tomas Kovar.

Coburg’s best attempt on goal came five minutes before half time.

A free kick taken by Anthony Magnacca just outside the box went wide of the keepers near post and that left the scores level at half time.

Fidel Richards finally broke the deadlock in the 48th minute.

Alex Josifovski played the ball to Fidel Richards, and his shot just inside the box took a slight deflection of a Zebra defender, the ball going past Robbie Simeoni putting Coburg 1-0 up.

An inspired Coburg almost doubled their lead two minutes later.

A great through ball by Anthony Magnacca found Alex Josifovski, who got loose of his marker and was left one-on -ne with Robbie Simeoni.

Whittlesea’s best chance of the second half came in the 67th minute.

James Sherman played a through ball to Ryan O’Hare, and just before Ryan was going to shoot Tomas Kovar slid in and cleared the ball.

But the ball went to Sebastian Petrovic, who was 20 yards out and his shot got past Tomas Kovar, but Serdar Pir cleared the ball of the line.

Coburg were gifted another chance four minutes later.

Poor defending let Ross Thompson receive a through ball by Anthony Magnacca, which left Ross one-on-one with the keeper again, but Ross failed to hit the ball on target.

On the 75th minute Whittlesea almost punished Coburg for missing its scoring opportunities.

A long throw-in found Simon Lamanda inside the six yard box and his flick on just went over the bar.

Anthony Magnacca had another great opportunity to seal the game with a free kick, but his attempt on goal just went wide of the top left hand corner, leaving Coburg with a 1-0 win.