Etoile win over Home open title race

Etoile FC have open up the title race after they defeated Home United 2-0 at Queenstown as Andrea Damiani and Theo Raymond got the goals for the French side.

With this results, five teams - Home United, Tampines Rovers, SAFFC, Albirex Niigata (S), Etoile FC - are in with a shot of the championship.

Etoile FC, before this win, had only a slim chance as they had been docked 5 points for the Hougang incident but now as long as they win their matches in hand they can closed the gap to 6 points and that will be boast to their morale considering their problem.

Tampines Rovers, whose chance took a dip a few week ago, took full advantage as they defeated Courts Young Lions 1-0 at Jalan Besar to go top of the table.

Aliff Shafaein got the winner.

But it was not the same story for SAFFC as they falter against Hougang United as the Cheetahs shock them by walking away from Choa Chu Kang with all three points.

Carlos Delgado had given the Cheetah an early lead and the Hougang side managed to starve off the 8-time champions to give them their first ever win against the Warriors.

In another match, Woodlands Wellington defeated Balestier Khalsa 1-0.

Guntur Djafril got the winner for the Rams 

Woodlands Wellington 

Ang Bang Heng (GK) (C), Fumiya Kobayashi, Duncan Elias, Munier Raychouni, Nawfal Shahib (Goh Swee Swee), Jalal, Guntur Djafril, Han Yiguang, Hyun Jong Woon, Shazlee Hamzah (Darrel Tan), Moon Soon Ho

Balestier Khalsa

Joey Sim (GK), Anaz Hadee, Lim Young Woo, Paul Cunningham (C), Ishak Zainol, Shamsurin Abd Rahman, Armanizam Dolah, K Vikraman (Ridhwan Osman), Nurhilmi Jasni (Andrew Tan), Kim Young Kwang (Hilmi Azman), Mark Kevin McGough

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SAFFC 

Shahril Jantan (GK) (C), Razaleigh Khalik, Hafiz Osman, Bah Mamadou, Daniel Bennett, Syaiful Iskandar (Mustaqim Manzur), Ivan Jerkovic (Erwan Gunawan), Goran Subara, Taisuke Akiyoshi, Mislav Karoglan, Fazrul Nawaz (Indra Sahdan)

Hougang United

Fadhil Salim (GK), Lau Meng Meng, Shariff Samat (C), Ratna Suffian, Azhar Sairudin (Fathi Yunus), Jordan Webb, Faizal Amir (Eddie Chang), Carlos Delgado, Noor Ali, Vitor Borges, Mamadou Diallo (Sobrie Mazelan)

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Home United

Fajar Sarib (GK), Kenji Arai, Juma'at Jantan, Valery Hiek, Zulfadli Zainal Abidin (Sufian Anuar), Shi Jiayi (C), Isa Halim (Firdaus Idros (Asraf Rashid)), Masrezwan Masturi, Lee Sang Ha, Frederic Mendy, Qiu Li

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Courts Young Lions

Izwan Mahbud (GK), Afiq Yunos, Irwan Shah, Fazli Ayob (Nigel Vanu), Hafiz Abu Sujad, Zulfahmi Arifin, Hariss Harun (C), Faris Ramli, Nazrul Ahmad Nazari (Ruzaini Zainal), Safirul Sulaiman, Khairul Nizam 

Tampines Rovers

Hafez Mawasi (GK), Benoit Croissant, Seiji Kaneko, Fahrudin Mustafic, Ahmad Latiff (Ahmed Fahmie), Akihiro Nakamura, Imran Sahib, Ismadi Mukhtar, Aliff Shafaein (Jamil Ali), Shukor Zailan (Firdaus Kasman), Aleksandar Duric (C)