Birkirkara strengthen fourth place

An early goal and another in the dying minutes gave Birkirkara a fourth win in the last five matches as they defeated Pembroke Athleta 2-0 at the Hibernians Stadium on Tuesday.

For Pembroke, this was their seventh consecutive defeat which leaves them anchored at the bottom of the table. Throughout the whole ninety minutes, they only seemed concerned to limit the damage, adopting an ultra-defensive approach.

Birkirkara had one change from the team which defeated Mosta during the weekend as Predrag Jovic replaced the suspended Nikola Vukanac. On the other hand, for Pembroke, Argyrs Roppas, Zoran Levnaic and Tyron Fenech replaced Matthew Calleja Cremona, Paltemio Barbetti and Daniane Jawad.

The Stripes took the lead on the 8th minute when off a cross by Dimitrov from the left, Miguel Angel Alba headed the ball home.

Birkirkara doubled the score on the 90th minute when off a cross from the right flank by Edward Herrera, Gonzalo Malan was at the right place at the right time to head home from close range.

PEMBROKE Argyrs Roppas, Daren Falzon, Miguel Attard, Stevan Racic, Raphael Kooh Sohna, Zoran Levnaic, Tonci Radovnikovic, Filippo Andrea Scozzese, Sunday Eboh (44′ Zachary Grech), Tyron Fenech, Iraklis Roppas.
Subs not used: Matthew Calleja Cremona, Neil Grech, James Mifsud, Matthew Buhagiar, Shaun Pace, Neil M. Micallef.
Coach: Artim Shaqiri

B’KARA Henry Bonello, Christian Bubalovic, Gareth Sciberras, Matthew Guillaumier, Mislav Andjelkovic, Srdjan Dimitrov (84′ Edmond Agius), Miguel Angel Alba (64′ Edward Herrera), Cain Attard (77′ Joseph Zerafa), Predrag Jovic, Gonzalo Malan, James Brincat.
Subs not used: Ini Etim Akapan, Matteo Desira Buttigieg, Steve Bonnici, Gary Muir.
Coach: Nikola Jaros

Referee: Eman Grech
Assistant Referees: Luke Portelli, Dusan Petrovic
Fourth Official: Sandro Spiteri
Yellow Cards: Eboh, Jovic, Malan, Levnaic
BOV Player of the Match: Gareth Sciberras
Attendance: 290

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