Cen­tral FC and Tiger Tanks Club San­do moved in­to a two-way share for the lead at the top of the 12-club 2023 T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League stand­ings af­ter con­trast­ing wins in their re­spec­tive Match Day Three en­coun­ters Wednes­day.

At the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma, three dif­fer­ent play­ers were on tar­get as Cen­tral FC blanked Cunu­pia FC 3-0 while Club San­do edged San Juan Jabloteh 1-0 at the Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex, Point Fortin.

At Mal­abar, for­mer na­tion­al de­fend­er Daneil Cyrus opened the scor­ing for Cen­tral FC in the 15th minute and the Ran­dolph Boyce-coached team held on­to the nar­row lead un­til Ke­sean St Rose made it 2-0 five min­utes in­to the sec­ond half fol­lowed by an in­sur­ance item from out-of-favour na­tion­al mid­field­er Keron ‘Ball Pest’ Cum­mings in the 75th minute.

The win was the sec­ond from three match­es for Cen­tral FC to move to sev­en points at the top of the 12-club stand­ings, the same as the Cor­nell Glen-coached Club San­do who got a lone item from Kevon Williams in the first half to edge vis­it­ing Jabloteh, leav­ing the lat­ter with­out a win af­ter three match­es.

In an­oth­er ear­ly match, the Walt Nor­eiga-coached AC Port-of-Spain de­feat­ed Po­lice FC 2-0 thanks to goals from over­looked na­tion­al mid­field­ers, Du­ane Muck­ette in the 30th minute and Jo­moul Fran­cois, ten min­utes from full-time at the Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Sta­di­um, to hand the Law­men their sec­ond loss from as many out­ings.

There were al­so three late match­es on sched­ule last night with Pris­ons Ser­vice up against Cale­do­nia AIA at Ari­ma; Point Fortin Civic host­ing De­fence Force at Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex, and the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed meet­ing be­tween Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers and W Con­nec­tion at La Hor­quet­ta.

Wednes­day’s re­sults:

Round Three:

AC Port of Spain 2 (Du­ane Muck­ette 30th, Jo­moul Fran­cois 80th) vs Po­lice FC 0

Club San­do 1 (Kevon Williams) vs San Juan Jabloteh 0

Cen­tral FC (Daneil Cyrus 15th, Ke­sean St Rose 50th, Keron Cum­mings 75th) vs Cunu­pia FC 0

Cur­rent T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League ta­ble:

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

Cen­tral FC*3*2*1*0*6*2*7

Club San­do FC*3*2*1*0*3*1*7

AC PoS*3*2*0*1*5*1*6

Cale­do­nia AIA*2*1*1*0*3*1*4

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

W Con­nec­tion*2*1*0*1*2*3*3

Cunu­pia FC*3*1*0*2*2*5*3

T&T Pris­ons FC*2*0*1*1*0*2*1

San Juan Jabloteh*3*0*1*2*0*3*1

De­fence Force*1*0*0*1*0*3*0

La Hor­quet­ta Rangers*0*0*0*0*0*0*0

T&T Po­lice FC*2*0*0*2*1*4*0