LIJA ATHLETIC                0

GUDJA UNITED              1           

Messias 88

LIJA ATHLETIC

L. Bonnici-6.5, C. Cassar-5.5 (67 A. Mizzi) (86 D. Scerri), I. Borg-5.5, E. Beu-6, F. Brandan-6.5, H. Wood-6, W. Serrano-6, M. Jimenez-6, J. Gill-6, C. Giordimaina-5.5, C. Flores-5.

GUDJA UNITED

G. Zammit-6, Y. Messias-6.5, L. Cremona-6, G. Mensah-6.5 (90 L. Pisani), I. Gonzalez-6, N. Micallef-6, E. da Silva-5 (76 J. Brincat), V. Conceicao-6 (89 H. Vella), G. Adamovic-5.5, J. Bolanos-5.5, D. Camilleri-6.

Referee: Etienne Mangion.

Yellow Cards: Cremona, Micallef, Mizzi, Messias, Zammit.

BOV Player of the Match: Fernando Brandan (Lija Athletic).

Yuri Messias bid farewell to Gudja United in the best possible manner when he converted a late penalty to hand his team a narrow win over Lija Athletic in a drab encounter.

The Brazilian forward was playing his final match for the southerners as he is set to join a club in Bahrain and ended his career in style to help Jesmond Zammit’s side to return to winning ways after suffering back-to-back defeats in their last two matches before the team was forced into mandatory quarantine.

Gudja United re-join Valletta in eighth place on 23 points.

Like Gudja, Lija were also playing their first game in over a month. Considering their performance, they could consider themselves unlucky to leave the Hibernians Stadium empty-handed. Lying second from bottom on just six points, they seem resigned to play in the BOV Challenge League next season.

Continue reading this article on Sports Desk, the sports website by Times of Malta

 

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