DPMM aim to go third
Rano Iskandar
info@sleague.com
DPMM FC can regain third spot in the Great Eastern-YEO’S S.League should they beat bottom side Balestier Khalsa at the Hassanal Bolkiah Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Given their perfect record at home, that sounds clear-cut enough.
But the recently-crowned League Cup winners are unwilling to take any team lightly, even one currently at the lowest rung of the league table.
As Vjeran Simunic, DPMM’s coach had said once before, “We respect every team in the S.League and we treat them equally.”
Little else has been mentioned on this match, but expect Simunic and the team to be fired up as their first season in the S.League approaches the halfway mark.
The Wasps currently lie fourth in the league, and will join all the other teams on 16 games each after completing their match against Balestier.
DPMM will be missing two key players in Azwan Salleh (suspension) and Ivan Jerkovic (surgery), which means that Oh Ddog Yi and Hardi Bujang will likely take their spots in the first eleven.
The absence of Jerkovic may prove tricky to compensate for, but the team can take heart from their 3-0 victory over Geylang United last week, which was also achieved without the midfielder.
Indeed, it will take more than ordinary tactics for any team to steal points at the Hassanal Bolkiah Stadium.
Could Balestier - a team that has slain giants in the past - be DPMM’s bogey team or will it be business as usual for the confident hosts?
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