After Jaromire Fidra left Slovakia and son Mischa played for Sydney Olympic (now City), grandson Jaden has brought their genetic influence to Prospect Park with dramatic effect.

Ultimately, Fidra was the only member of City's old-fashioned front four who didn't score but his pace and touch dominated proceedings as the hosts recorded their second win of the season while their cross-town rivals suffered a third straight heavy loss.

University lecturer Albert Amankwaa gave a masterclass in close-range poaching, Dan Smith picked up his customary goal and the returning Jarrod Linger scored one beauty and could have had several more as City cruised to victory.

Olympic created more chances than in 5-0 and 4-0 losses to Glenorchy and Kingborough but found City captain and keeper Lachie Clark in no mood to let them take any consolation from the game.

The orange faithful will have to wait another week to see highly-rated centre-back Jean-Philippe Rutabayiro in action after the Rwandan international was again kept out by his calf strain while Mitch Jones picked up an Achilles injury and Ryan McCarragher is still recovering from COVID.

With coach Lino Sciulli also missing due to COVID isolation, City were looking to bounce back from last week's postponement against South Hobart.

Reigning player of the season Linger reverted to his striking origins in a front line that looks full of goals.

And it was not long before they found them.

Smith rifled in the first after eight minutes following excellent build-up work from Fidra and Linger skilfully fired home the second two minutes later after a lovely turn in the box.

Three exceptional saves from Olympic keeper Dan Nash denied Linger twice and turned a Fidra shot onto the post before Amankwaa pounced on defensive hesitancy two minutes before and after half-time to double City's advantage.

By this stage the frontline were having such fun that at one point Linger and Amankwaa appeared to tackle each other in their desire for possession.

For their part, Olympic played a front three of the nippy Will Coert between James Hall and Liam Poulson and between them they kept Clark's hands warm but could not find the net.

Japanese defender Kosuke Mizuno was given a more advanced role as Simon Lucas joined Drew Sykes, Zac Reissig and Will Prince in the visitors' back four.

Although goalless, the last 43 minutes was full of incident.

Olympic's best chance saw Coert and Poulson combine to set up Will Milner only for Clark to divert his goalbound effort and the City keeper was at it again late on to thwart a clean-through Coert.

Meanwhile City were denied further additions to the scoreline by Linger missing the target having waltzed through the defence and two stunning goal-line clearances from Reissig after Fidra had left Nash in his wake.

As the result became increasingly obvious both sides deployed a flurry of substitutions, with City products Aaron Campbell and Macka Hancox both coming on against their former team as Stef Tantari returned following his bout of COVID.

The visitors turned to more youngsters in Adam Walker and Toby Simeoni before lively Brazilian Isael de Carvalho made another eye-catching late cameo up front.

Olympic's growing frustration was best demonstrated by Tom Milner collecting a yellow card within a minute of coming off the bench.

The referee even brandished a red after another yellow in stoppage time when James Hall upended Fidra, only to rescind it moments later, presumably for believing he had already issued an earlier yellow to the Olympic striker.

The fixture also brought together Will Humphrey and Gedi Krusa, two tall central midfield playmakers from Riverside and Lithuania respectively as similar in composure as they are diverse in heritage. The cultured pair were rarely far from each other across the middle of the park and - unlike their teams - could consider their personal duel a tie.

City's 100 per cent start will be severely tested next Saturday when they visit Devonport while Olympic will be looking for their first points, and goals, when they welcome Olympia to Windsor Park.

Football Tasmania has announced that several Saturday games have been postponed due to multiple COVID cases.

The NPL Tasmania and Women's Super League fixtures between Kingborough and Clarence at Lightwood Park, scheduled for 6.30pm and 12.30pm respectively, will both be reschedule, probably to midweek times.

The WSL match between Taroona and South Hobart, which was scheduled for 2.30pm at Kelvedon Park, has also been postponed.

And the 12.30pm kick-off between Olympia and Devonport was the last to bite the dust. Football Tasmania competitions coordinator Emma Brown said the hope is to reschedule the game for Easter Monday.

With Launceston United having the bye, this means there will be no WSL fixtures this weekend.

The previous weekend saw the postponement of Launceston City's trip to South Hobart in NPL Tasmania plus all of Riverside's Northern Championship fixtures against Ulverstone.