Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League duo, De­fence Force and Neal & Massy Cale­do­nia AIA both ad­vanced to the round-of-32 when the fi­nal two match­es of the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion FA Tro­phy com­pe­ti­tion con­tin­ued on Sat­ur­day. How­ev­er, while Cale­do­nia coast­ed to a 4-1 win over South­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's Up­ris­ing Youths, De­fence Force was made to work hard for its 3-2 win over reign­ing Na­tion­al Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Big-Five and In­ter-Col as well as North Zone dou­ble-crown win­ners St An­tho­ny's Col­lege. Cale­do­nia used goals from four dif­fer­ent play­ers to turn back Up­ris­ing Youths with Ka­reem Joseph (22nd), Trevin Cae­sar (25th), Guyana's Wal­ter Moore (41st) and Ja­mal Gay (56th) all on tar­get be­fore Kevon No­ra pulled a goal back for the losers in the en­counter at Techi­er Vil­lage, Pt Fortin. For its win, Cale­do­nia set up a sec­ond round meet­ing with East­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, ta­ble lead­ers' 1st FC San­ta Rosa on Sun­day.

De­fence Force, mean­while need­ed a dou­ble from strik­er Balon­de­mu Julius in their nar­row vic­to­ry over the "Tigers" at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um, Mal­abar and will next meet East­ern Coun­ties Foot­ball Union's Mafek­ing Unit­ed at Mafek­ing, al­so on Sun­day. De­fence Force, play­ing on the heels of a 1-1 draw with T&TEC in the Pro League less than 24 hours ear­li­er took the lead in the 34th minute with Julius on tar­get. How­ev­er, the Tigers hit back just be­fore the in­ter­val with An­jani Clarence the scor­er and with­in ten min­utes of the re-start, the "Tigers" stunned the Pro League's de­fend­ing cham­pi­on with a go-ahead item from Garvin Sama­roo af­ter goal­keep­er Kevin Barthez failed to col­lect a cor­ner. But the "Tigers" were de­nied the up­set as re­cent­ly capped na­tion­al strik­er, Richard "Sha­ka" Roy drew the "Teteron Boys" lev­el in the 66th minute be­fore Julius, net­ted the de­ci­sive item 12 min­utes from full-time. In the two oth­er first round match­es played ear­li­er in the week, WASA (Su­per League) came from a goal down to beat EFA's Mal­oney 3-1 and Club San­do (Su­per League) thrashed EC­FU's Damarie Hill Re-Unit­ed, 6-0. The last-32 round of match­es kicks off on Sat­ur­day with eight match­es while the oth­er eight will be played on Sun­day.