Malta kicked off their campaign in the UEFA Boys U16 Development Tournament with a 1-0 win over Armenia on Monday, thanks to a second-half strike from captain Ryan Debono.

Malta eventually opened the scoring in the 77th minute, after Debono was fed an excellent through pass, and when faced with the onrushing defenders, he feinted to another side before striking the ball past the goalkeeper and into the roof of the net.

Photo courtesy of Malta FA

Malta’s next outing in the tournament will be against Gibraltar on Wednesday 26th February, with kick-off at 10:00hrs.

Malta Vincent Tabone, Matthew Mizzi, Lydon Calleja Attard (Giorgio Cristauro 57’), Andre’ Zammit (Kaylon Zammit 74’), Ryan Debono (C), Zachary Hartvig, Rico Cauchi (Nathan Clinton 46’), Mattiaz Ancilleri (Denzel Attard 68’), Jamie Nwoko (Mattias Gatt Dimech Debono 68’), Caden Tanti (Julian Scicluna 57’), Justin Pena Serna (Densel Grech 74’)

Armenia Narek Nazaretyan (GK), Colin Mullins, Tigran Ohanyan (C), Narek Melikyan, Ruben Grigoryan, Kirill Edigarian, Sergey Arakelyan (Erik Vuvunikyan 52’), Suren Petrosyan (Artyom Hakobyan 81’), Armen Ghazaryan (Arsen Arakelyan 61’), Gor Serobyan (Andranik Yerveandyan 46’) Mher Harutyunyan (Vahe Tovmasyan 81’)