Sidebar

28
Thu, Mar

Police FC Kaydion Gabriel, left, holds off La Horquetta Rangers Kishun Seecharan during the TT Pro League match between La Horquetta Rangers and Police FC at the Phase 2 Recreation Grounds, La Horquetta on Tuesday night. Rangers won 2-0.  CA-images
Typography

For­mer na­tion­al Un­der-23 mid­field­er Kishun Seecha­ran scored a first-half dou­ble to lead Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers past Po­lice FC 2-0 in a key 2019/2020 T&T Pro League match at La Hor­quet­ta Recre­ation Ground, Phase II, La Hor­quet­ta on Tues­day night.

With the win, Rangers im­proved to 29 points from 15 match­es on the 11-team ta­ble and five match­es left to play to com­plete their cam­paign while three-time T&T Pro League cham­pi­ons De­fence Force and 18-time na­tion­al league win­ners De­fence Force leads with 32 points from 14 match­es and well on course for a first league crown since 2012-2013 while Po­lice FC stayed third with 23 points from 16 match­es.

The 23-year-old Seecha­ran who had stints pre­vi­ous­ly at De­fence Force, Cen­tral FC and North East Stars opened the scor­ing in the 18th minute and added the sec­ond on the stroke of half-time to give his team a com­fort­able lead at the break which they held on­to in the sec­ond half with­out con­ced­ing.

Down at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va in the oth­er match on sched­ule na­tion­al beach soc­cer play­er Kevon "Show­time" Wood­ley con­tin­ued to im­press in his quest for se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball team call-up by net­ting the de­ci­sive item in Cunu­pia FC's 2-1 de­feat of AC Port-of-Spain.

Shem Clauzel, the son of long-time stand­out Ian "The Dread­ed Drib­bler" Clauzel hand­ed AC Port-of-Spain the lead a minute be­fore the half-time in­ter­val.

Nine min­utes af­ter the restart, Gio­van­ni Abra­ham drew Cunu­pia FC lev­el and 12 min­utes be­fore the fi­nal whis­tle, Wood­ley banged in the match-win­ner, to earn his team on­ly their sec­ond win in 15 match­es this cam­paign.

Last night (Wednes­day, March 4), De­fence Force h had a chance to re­store its nine-point lead when they face San Juan Jabloteh at Cou­va from 6 pm fol­lowed by Mor­vant Cale­do­nia and Cen­tral FC at the same venue two hours lat­er, while Pt Fortin Civic host­ed Club San­do at Ma­haica Oval.

Full Results

Tuesday March 3

Cunu­pia FC 2 (Giovanni Abraham 54, Kevon Woodley 78) vs AC Port-of-Spain 1 (Shem Clauzel 44), Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, 7pm

La Hor­quet­ta Rangers 2 (Kishun Seecharan 18, 45) vs Po­lice FC 0, La Hor­quet­ta Rec. Grd, 7pm - Match Highlights

Lat­est Team Stand­ings

P  W  D  L  F  A  GD  Pts
1  Defence Force FC  14 11 2 1 25 11 +14 35
2  La Horquetta Rangers  15 9 2 4 43 18 +25 29
3  Police FC  16 6 5 5 28 18 +10 23
4  W Connection  14 6 3 5 23 20 +3 21
5  Morvant Caledonia United  14 5 6 3 17 17 0 21
6  Point Fortin Civic  14 6 3 5 19 21 -2 21
7  Club Sando  15 5 4 6 23 19 +4 19
8  San Juan Jabloteh  15 4 4 7 19 29 -10 16
9  Central FC  15 3 4 8 15 26 -11 13
10  AC Port of Spain  15 3 4 8 18 35 -17 13
11  Cunupia FC  15 2 5 8 13 29 -16 11

Upcoming Matches.

March 4

San Juan Jabloteh vs De­fence Force, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, 6pm

Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed vs Cen­tral FC, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, 8pm

Point Fortin Civic vs Club San­do, Ma­haica Oval, Point Fortin 7pm

March 6

W Connection v AC Port of Spain, 6pm, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um

March 7

Point Fortin Civic v Morvant Caledonia United, 6pm, Mahaica Oval

March 8

Club Sando v La Horquetta Rangers, 3:30pm, Larry Gomes Stadium

Central FC v Cunupia FC, 4pm, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um

Defence Force v Police FC, 6pm, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um