Brian Kaltak was key for Auckland City win over AS Vénus

The Ni-Vanuatu international Brian Kaltak shown all his capabilities to help his side, the New Zealand powerhose Auckland City, to surpass the home team AS Vénus at Stade de Mahina by the minimum advantage at OFC Champions League – Group D second matchday.

The 26-year-old defender played alongside the experienced Ángel Berlanga and Mario Bilen at the back-three composition selected by the coach José Figueira and helped the goalkeeper Conor Tracey and the defensive system to end up the game with a clean sheet. Kaltak did not made any passing errors in the whole game and was efficient to stop the top-goalscorer of Ligue 1 Vini season in 2019 Teaonui Tehau.

The half time advantage of 1-0 was enough for Auckland City to secure their second win in the process. The goal scored by Myer Bevan proved to be the winning goal of the contest – the strong defensive performance of Auckland prevented AS Vénus to be a real threat for Conor Tracey as the Navy Blues marched on with another important three points in the pool to proceed to the knock-out stage.

Kaltak proved to be key for to hold the advatange and the coach José Figueira is certainly satisfied with the performance of his number 6. This is the seventh time Kaltak plays the OFC Champions League – the first for Auckland City. The defender recently was called up by Etienne Mermer for the Vanuatu national team camp that will start trainings for the OFC Nations Cup this June. The player might travel to Vanuatu when the season in New Zealand ends in order to represent his country at the most important football tournament of Oceania.