T&T Pro League
With Joel Villafana, 1st May 2006
League Preview of Round 5
CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh and W Connection will meet in an all-important clash on Tuesday 2nd May at the Ato Boldon Stadium.
Both Jabloteh and Connection are surprisingly coming off defeats - Jabloteh lost to North East 1 – 0 and Connection fell to Joe Public by the same margin.
Jabloteh will be without young striker Jason Marcano and National Defender Cyd Gray – Marcano broke his hand against North East Stars, and will be out for six weeks, while Cyd Gray injured his hamstring. But Coach Terry Fenwick says his forces are eager to get back to winning ways, “It’s going to be another tough assignment against W. Connection, but we will be ready and hopefully we can come away with the desired result,” said Fenwick.
His opposite number, Stuart Charles Fervier faces a situation where he needs some points in order to stay within striking distance of the front-runners. Connection’s loss to Joe Public on Sunday saw them drop to the 4th place in the standings on 10 points.
There is another double-header at the Larry Gomes Stadium at 5:00pm. It is an interesting mid – table clash: Caledonia AIA and United Petrotrin. Both teams coming off of victories - Petrotrin blew past Defence Force 2 – 0 and Caledonia came from behind to beat Rangers 2 – 1.
In the night’s 2nd game, a confident North East Stars will be looking for 3 more points against Superstar Rangers. North East aiming for their 5th straight victory.
Down south at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium – Starworld Strikers will be gearing themselves up for another good performance and they will be hoping to hand Defence Force their 6th straight defeat—the san Fernando based team registered their first victory of the season when they defeated Tobago United 2-1.
And across in Tobago – the men from the sister isle will try to keep the fleet-footed Joe Public at bay – the Eastern Lions are locked on 12 points in a three way tie at the top of the standings and will be pressing for maximum points in the sister isle.
