Nadi's Rusiate Matarerega scores his first goal of the match against Rewa.

Rusiate Matarerega scored four goals for the Nadi football side as they thrashed Rewa 6-1 in the Vodafone Premier League at Prince Charles Park.

Matarerega scored the opening goal for Nadi in the second minute of play.

Christopher Kumar then extended their lead 2-0 in the 4th minute before Ame Votu’s powerful header added another goal to give Nadi a 3-0 lead.

Matarerega got his double via a penalty after Jeshal Kumar was brought down by Abhishek Deo into his own 18-yard box.

Matarerega took advantage of a defensive blunder and got his hat-trick in the 51st minute of play to extend their lead 5-0.

Anish Khem got Rewa onto the score sheet in the 83rd minute.

Matarerega made a classical finish from a 30-yard direct free kick in the dying stages of the match to take the final score to 6-1.

Nadi President Javed Ahamed says the players put on a brilliant performance in front of their home fans.

“I’m really happy and I think not just the win but the performance of the players. They played really well. They’ve been working hard during training last couple of weeks after lost against Ba and I’m glad they were able to bring that into the game and considering the ground condition we played well and amazing football as well.”

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Nadi will travel to the north on Saturday to face Labasa at 1.30pm .