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Monday, March 17, 2025

Defence Force aims to keep unbeaten run

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Sports Desk
1890 days ago
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Point Fortin Civic's Kyron Williams (No 24) goes passed Police FC defender Kaydion Gabriel during their TT Pro League match at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo on Friday. Police FC won 3-1.

Point Fortin Civic's Kyron Williams (No 24) goes passed Police FC defender Kaydion Gabriel during their TT Pro League match at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo on Friday. Police FC won 3-1.

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De­fence Force will be con­fi­dent of pick­ing up a fifth straight win to start the 2019/2020 T&T Pro League cam­paign when they come up against strug­gling San Juan Jabloteh in the first match of the dou­ble-head­er at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo from 6 pm on Tues­day.

The 'Teteron Team' which last won the Pro League in the 2012/2013 sea­son, is com­ing off a hard-fought 1-0 vic­to­ry over de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons W Con­nec­tion at the same venue on Fri­day for its fourth straight vic­to­ry to be­gin the sea­son un­der first-year coach Lloyd 'Sir Naulty' An­drews.

Speak­ing ahead of the match, An­drews said he was de­light­ed with the start his team has made, but they haven't won any­thing as yet.

He said, "Any coach of a team will be very hap­py with the start of win­ning their first four match­es in any com­pe­ti­tion, but for me, the jour­ney has now start­ed be­cause there is a long way to go in the ti­tle race."

"Our tar­get is to win the Pro League so we just have to con­tin­ue com­ing to train­ing with the right at­ti­tude and mind­set and take that same pos­i­tive ap­proach in­to our match­es.

Mean­while, Jabloteh will be des­per­ate to get back on track af­ter a 6-0 maul­ing from Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers on Fri­day, to record its first win in five match­es.

How­ev­er, An­drews said his team will not be tak­ing them for grant­ed.

"We can­not think of the out­come of their last match. Tues­day will be a dif­fer­ent day and things change with re­gards to play­ers mind­set and ap­proach and with us be­ing at the top I ex­pect them to be up for the chal­lenge as well, so we will be fo­cused and ready as well be­cause we in­tend to go for the three points, " end­ed An­drews.

Two hours lat­er in the sec­ond match at Mu­cu­rapo, Po­lice FC, win­ners of the First Cit­i­zens Cup last month, and sec­ond on the ta­ble with ten points will be keen to main­tain their im­pres­sive form when they tack­le free-scor­ing La Hor­quet­ta Rangers.

At the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, third-placed Mor­vant Cale­do­nia with nine points will meet Cen­tral FC in the fea­ture match from 8 pm.

The 'Stal­lions' as Mor­vant Cale­do­nia AIA out­fit are called came in­to the New Year as joint ta­ble lead­ers with Club San­do, but have now gone win­less in their last two match­es while Cen­tral FC edged Club San­do, 2-1 for a first win on the sea­son.

In the open­er at Cou­va from 6 pm, coach An­gus Eve and Club San­do will aim to get back on track and end their four-match win­less run when they come up against Pt Fortin Civic, one of two clubs yet to win this sea­son

And in the lone match at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex, Diego Mar­tin, AC Port-of-Spain and Cunu­pia FC clash from 7 pm.

TO­DAY'S MATCH­ES

Tiger Tanks Club San­do vs Pt Fortin Civic, 6 pm

Cen­tral FC vs Mor­vant Cale­do­nia AIA, 8 pm

Venue: Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va.

De­fence Force vs San Juan Jabloteh, 6 pm

Po­lice FC vs La Hor­quet­ta Rangers, 8 pm

Venue: Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo

AC Port-of-Spain vs Cunu­pia FC, 7 pm

Venue: Dei­go Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex, Diego Mar­tin

Lat­est T&T Pro League stand­ings

Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

1. De­fence Force FC*4*4*0*0*7*3*12

2. Po­lice FC*5*3*1*1*8*4*10

3. Mor­vant Cale­do­nia*5*2*3*0*5*3*9

4. L.H Rangers*4*2*0*2*15*7*6

5. W Con­nec­tion*4*1*2*1*5*4*5

6. Cen­tral FC *5*1*2*2*5*6*5

7. Club San­do*5*1*2*2*4*5*5

8. AC Port-of-Spain*4*1*1*2*6*11*4

9. San Juan Jabloteh*5*1*1*3*1*8*4

10. Pt Fortin Civic*3*0*2*1*2*4*2

11. Cunu­pia FC*4*0*2*2*4*7*2

Lead­ing scor­ers

5 - Keion Wil­son (Po­lice FC)

4 - Keron Cum­mings (La Hor­quet­ta Rangers)

3 - Rashad Hy­a­centh (AC PoS), Shaq­keem Joseph (Club San­do)


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