Under-19 side suffers heavy defeat to Switzerland

u19-malta-switzerland130319The Malta Under-19 side suffered a 0-5 defeat to Switzerland in a second friendly match at the MFA Training Grounds on Thursday.

The locals controlled their opponents well during the first half despite going one goal down on the 9th minute following a goal by Gregory Karlen. However after the break, the visitors scored four to register a comfortable win. Boris Cespedes doubled the score on 51 minutes. Samuele Campo added another six minutes later and another two goals by Cespedes on 73 and 75 minutes sealed the issue for the visitors.

In a first friendly match on Tuesday, Switzerland won 2-1.

MALTA Luke Pecorella, Clyde Cumbo (46′ Neil Chetcuti), Giancarlo Sammut (84′ Timothy Tabone Desira), Joe Reno Vella, Dion Fava, Kyle Cesare (82′ Jacob Falzon), Llywelyn Cremona, Bryce Cuschieri (46′ Kurt Zammit), Luke Montebello, Ryan Spiteri (59′ Godwin Mckay), Jurgen Degabriele.
SWITZERLAND Novem Baumann, Oliver Custodio (65′ Karim Gazzetta), Joel Keller, Kevin Mbabu, Ahmet Ozcan (46′ Michael Goncalves), Miguel Castroman, Samuele Campo, Boris Cespedes, Omar Thali (46′ THomas Fekete), Gregory Karlen (46′ Valentin Hayoz), Christophe Stenz.
Referee: Adrian Azzopardi
Assistant Referees: Duncan Sultana, Roberto Vella