Fight between three teams for promotion and playoff
Three teams will fight out the championship, promotion and play off places after this weekend’s results in this Division. These teams are Swieqi United, Gudja United and St Lucia.
Swieqi and Gudja drew in a goalless encounter at the Luxol Stadium while St Lucia thrashed Kalkara by six goals to two at the Sirens Stadium on Sunday.
John Nwoba scored a hat trick on 12, 49 and 90 minutes with Steve Meilaq scoring a brace on 16 and 22 minutes. Paolo Dandolo scored the other goal for St Lucia on the half hour with Kalkara’s goals coming from a brace by the evergreen Timmy Thomas on 31 and 32 minutes.
St George’s kept up their faint playoff hopes alive to stave off automatic relegation when they defeated Marsaxlokk by two goals to nil in the first match at the Luxol Stadium on Sunday.
Bobby Ray Vaughan scored both goals on 32 and 73 minutes.
Attard also registered an important win in their hopes to garner the playoff spot when they beat Luqa St Andrews by a Kurt Zahra goal scored on 21 minutes in the first match at the Centenary Stadium on Saturday.
In a match without much interest, Mgarr United and Birzebbugia played out a 1-1 draw in the second match at the Centenary Stadium on Saturday.
Paul Camilleri put Birzebbugia ahead on 37 minutes with Leon Zammit equalising for Mgarr on 65 minutes.
In another match without much interest, Siggiewi thrashed relegated Gharghur to the tune of seven goals at the Sirens Stadium on Sunday. The goals came from: Gilmore Azzopardi on 10’, Vince Magri on 13’, EdafeUzahon 63’, Ryan Caruana on 74’ from a penalty, Ryan Darmaninon 84’, Ayrton Micallef on 88’and Jason Camilleri on 90’.
Results
St. George’s-Marsaxlokk 2-0 Swieqi U-Gudja U 0-0 Siggiewi-Gharghur 7-0 Kalkara-St Lucia 2-6 Attard-Luqa SA 1-0 Birzebbuga SP-Mgarr U 1-1