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Victoria Hotspurs 2 – 0 St George’s

Scorers: 11′ Kurt Borg, 24′ Rondinely Roberto Monteiro

All games of the penultimate Match Day of the 1st phase of the National Amateur League II were played on Sunday, with leaders Victoria Hotspurs and St George’s having the earliest kick off at the Centenary Stadium. The Hotspurs, home and dry, scored two early goals to add another victory to their impressive campaign, which they dominated from the start.

The Gozitan debutants started strongly as expected and took the lead after 11 minutes when an excellent cross by veteran Roderick Briffa found Kurt Borg who made no mistake heading home. On 24 minutes, Rondinely smashed home his 15th league goal of the season after some fine individual play.

Victoria could have made it three on 55 minutes when Emmanuel Mbong fired a rocket that slammed against the post with Clive Caruana rooted. On the hour mark, Mbong saw another effort blocked by Caruana whilst Kurt Borg hit the woodwork just a minute later as Victoria threatened to rack up a big score yet again.

The Hotspurs had another chance on 80 minutes when from an indirect free kick, Ferdinando Apap squared to Daniel Farrugia whose shot was brilliantly saved by Caruana, with the Pioneers eventually managing to keep the score at acceptable levels. Together with Mqabba and Kalkara United, both teams will meet again in the 2nd and final phase of the competition, which will be a single-round Top 4 contest.