Albirex and Warriors close gap on Home and Tampines

As the S-league march down to it final 3 months, it looked like a four-horse race has developed as Albrex Niigata (S) and SAFFC closed the gap on duo leaders Tampines Rovers and Home United.

Home United was unable to shake off the effect of the international break as most of their regulars were involved with the national team and not helping, they also missed the services of 16-goal Mendy and defensive midfielder Isa Halim due to suspension.

With the national players also returning half-injured like Lionel Lewis, Qiu Li and Shi JiaYi, it looked like Home is in trouble.

Albirex Niigata (S) took full advantage with their rest squad as they crushed the Protectors 4-0 with goals from Tatsuro Inui, Ryuta Hayashi, Shimpei Sakurada and Kunihiro Yamashita.

A day later, SAFFC also took advanatge as they crushed Woodlands Wellington 7-0 to close the gap to 4-point at the top.

Fazrul Nawaz, Taisuke Akiyoshi (2), Mislav Karoglan (2) and Indra Sahdan were the scorers. One of the goals also include an own goal.

For one other match, Gombak United defeated Courts Young Lions 1-0 at Jalan Besar.

Jung Hee Bong continue to look a different player at Gombak as he notched  the winner.

Home United
Lionel Lewis (GK), Kenji Arai, Juma'at Jantan, Valery Hiek, Rosman Sulaiman, Shi Jiayi (C), Nor Azli Yusoff (Faizal Samad), Firdaus Idros, Masrezwan Masturi (Sufian Anuar), Qiu Li (Asraf Rashid), Sherif El-Masri 

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SAFFC
Shahril Jantan (GK) (C), Hafiz Osman (Razaleigh Khalik), Bah Mamadou, Daniel Bennett, Noh Rahman, Ivan Jerkovic (Rhysh Roshan Rai), Goran Subara, Taisuke Akiyoshi, Fazrul Nawaz (Indra Sahdan), Mislav Karoglan, Erwan Gunawan (Syaiful Iskandar)

Woodlands Wellington
Ang Bang Heng (GK), Fumiya Kobayashi (Oswind Suriya), Duncan Elias, Sahairi Ramri (Syed Karim), Munier Raychouni, Madhu Mohana, Jalal, Sazali Salleh (C), Hyun Jong Woon, Goh Swee Swee (Darrel Tan), Moon Soon Ho 
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Courts Young Lions 

Jasper Chan (GK), Afiq Yunos, Irwan Shah (C), Abdul Hadi, Al-Qaasimy Abdul Rahman (Emmeric Ong), Fazli Ayob, Hafiz Abu Sujad, Ruzaini Zainal, Zulfahmi Arifin (Fairoz Hasan), Shahdan Sulaiman, Safirul Sulaiman 

Gombak United

Zaiful Nizam (GK), Jaslee Hatta (C), Hamqaamal Shah, Jeremy Chiang, Ismail Yunos, Walid Lounis, Tengku Mushadad, Park Kang Jin (Ridwan Jamil), Fareez Farhan (Zulkiffli Hassim), Jung Hee Bong, Chang Jo Yoon (Ridhwan Jamaludin)