DDPL: Maziya earns three points against TC
Maziya beat TC 2-1 on Friday evening
Maziya beat TC 2-1 on Friday evening
Maziya Sports and Recreation Club is leading the Dhiraagu Dhivehi Premier League (DDPL) table in the first spot with three points after crushing TC Sports Club during Friday’s match.
TC Sports Club lost to Maziya with a 2-1 score during Friday’s match, held at the National Football Stadium.
Maziya led the first half of the match with an excellent performance, with defender Moosa Yameen having attempted to score for the winning team into the beginning of the first half.
Despite being presented with an excellent opportunity to score, Maziya’s midfielder Mohamed Umair was unable to make use of it, right after the first goal.
TC came up from behind not long after, with foreign forward Malcolm Cornelius taking a shot, but failing to score. Two minutes later Maziya won a penalty shot by foreign forward Cornelius Stewart, securing the lead in the game.
The rest of the first half saw Maziya bagging opportunities to widen the gap with Umair and Cornelius going on the offensive, which was blocked by the TC goalkeeper.
Both teams showed equally good performance for the second half of the match, with Maziya forward Ibrahim Mahudhee having had an excellent opportunity to widen the lead at the 63rd minute. However, he missed the shot.
Maziya won its second goal 74 minutes in, when Cornelius took a pass by Ibrahim Mahudhee to a winning strike.
TC’s only score in the match was during the extra time, by defender Yogendharan.
Following the match, Maziya’s coach, Risto Vidaković stated that players performance improved during the second half of the match and that there were issues in defense.
TC Coach, Mohamed Shaazlee stated that players aimed to win three points from the match and that they would have settled for a win despite not having secured the three points. He expressed disappointment in failing to acquire neither.
With Friday’s win, Maziya leads the league table with 14 points won in six DDPL matches. Club Valencia, which follows at second, has 11 points acquired from five matches. With this being said, the latter has a chance of beating Maziya to the top, during Saturday’s game. TC falls short with six points in the lead table, and is at fourth spot.
Green Streets moved up the league table to the third spot, after beating Club Eagles 4-1 in Friday night’s game.
The first goal of the match was by midfielder Ali Shamiu, at the 28nd minute.
A minute later, foreign forward Angel Munoz widened the gap with a second goal.
Green Streets crushed the first half by securing not two but three goals, the third one by midfielder Abdulla Yameen.
Eagles went on the offensive during the second half of the game, and scored its only goal of the game at the 60th minute. Eagles’ only score was by forward, Mohamed Naaim.
Green Streets amped up their game and scored a fourth goal at the 79th minute.
Eagles’ coach, Mohamed “Mohan” Shiyaz stated that the team’s defenders shows an average performance throughout and stressed that forward Ahmed Rizwan’s absence affected the game, a great deal.
Green Streets Coach, Ali Nisthar Mohamed stated that he was pleased with the team’s performance and that the team had aimed for three points in the game.
