Northern Football Association Premier Division champions, Police FC will be hoping to clinch one of three promotion spots available from the T&T Football Association Champion of Champions qualifiers to next season’s National Super League when it faces Sidey’s FC today.
However, the Lawmen will enter the match at Speyside Recreation Ground from 6pm, in not so much of a confident mood having suffered a humiliating 5-1 loss to visiting Southern Football Association Premier Division champions, Marabella Family Crisis Centre, at their St James Police Barracks Training Ground, Long Circular Road, St James, on Saturday.
This after Police won its first two matches, 3-0 over Matura Re-United, the Eastern Counties Football Union champions, and 2-1 and still leads with six points, two more than Matura Reunited and Central Football Association kings, Cunupia FC.
Sidey’s FC the Tobago Football Association Premier winners will be making their tournament bow as their previous matches against Malta Carib Alcons (March 29), Marabella Family CC (April 1) and Cunupia FC (April 4) were all rescheduled to the unavailability of flights due to the busy Easter weekend travelling between both islands.
Up at Matura Recreation Ground, two teams coming off similar 5-1 victories, in Matura Reunited and Marabella Family CC lock horns from 4pm as well.
Reunited got a brace from Irvin Reyes in the lopsided win while Keryn Vincent, Sherwin Charles and Kerwin Matthews added one each, but Marabella was also in scintillating form against Police led by a double from Kevin Moodie and one each from Javed Mohammed, Nathan Homer and Kerville Jeremiah.
And in the day’s other contest, Alcons is at home to Cunupia FC, joint second with four points, but from only two matches, at the Maracas Recreation Ground, St Joseph.
At the end of the six-team round-robin series, the top three clubs will gain promotion to the 2015/2016 National Super League.
T&TFA Champion of Champions Results:
Round One (March 29):
Cunupia FC 2 (Jamal Spencer 43rd, Stevon Stoute 90+4) vs Marabella Family CC 1 (Stephan Campbell 17th)
Police FC 3 vs Matura Reunited 0
Round Two (April 1):
Cunupia FC 1 (Stevon Stoute 31st) vs Matura Reunited 1 (Keryn Vincent 8th)
Police 2 (Kemron Purcell 5th, Dwight Elliot 69th) vs Malta Carib Alcons 1 (Akil Dacon 26th)
Round Three (April 4):
Matura Re-United 5 (Irvin Reyes 5th, 73rd, Keryn Vincent 8th, Sherwin Charles 72nd, Kerwin Matthews 89th) vs Malta Carib Alcons 1 ( Kareem Scott 32nd)
Marabella Family CC 5 (Kevin Moodie 32nd, 37th, Javed Mohammed 41st, Nathan Homer 73rd, Kerville Jeremiah 74th) vs Police FC 1 (Jason Boodram 83rd)
Current T&TFA Champion of Champions Standings
Teams P W D L F A Pts
Police 3 2 0 1 6 6 6
Matura Reunited 3 1 1 1 6 5 4
Cunupia 2 1 1 0 3 2 4
Marabella 2 1 0 1 6 3 3
Alcons 2 0 0 2 2 7 0
Sidey’s 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Upcoming Matches:
Today:
Malta Carib Alcons vs Cunupia FC, Maracas Recreation Ground, St Joseph, 6pm
Matura Reunited vs Marabella Family CC, Matura Recreation Ground, Matura, 4pm
Sidey’s FC vs Police, Speyside Recreation Ground, Speyside, 6pm
Sunday:
Matura Reunited vs Sidey’s FC, Matura Recreation Ground, Matura, 4pm
Malta Carib Alcons vs Marabella Family CC, Maracas Recreation Ground, St Joseph, 4pm
Cunupia FC vs Police FC, Edinburgh 500 Recreation Ground, Chaguanas, 4pm.
Matches to be rescheduled:
Sidey’s FC vs Malta Carib Alcons
Sidey’s FC vs Cunupia FC
Sidey’s FC vs Marabella Family CC
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