Rabat vs St George's 1-2

Match Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 14:45-16:45
Venue: Hibs Stadium, Rahal Gdid
Who Played: Jonathan Azzopardi, Neil Caruana, Edward Azzopardi, Jonathan Bezzina, Paolo Ciantar, Lydon Micallef, Emmanuel Muscat (Christopher Schembri), Joseph Caruana, Glen Magri, Kayne Said (Darren Galea), Adam Smeir
Rabat Scorers: Joseph Caruana

The Magpies showed their best in the first half, with different scoring opportunites which were almost all wasted. Rabat scored their first goal in the last part of the first half from a nice team action which was concluded by a very good shot from Joseph Caruana.

In the second half, St George's were the better team and they deserved the victory. St George's started to be too dangerous and sooner or later the goal was clear that it would come for them. The Magpies were almost inexisting with no ball movement, to slow, inaccurate in long shots and showing to many individualism. The first goal for St George's was scored in the middle of the second half, while the second goal was scored in the last minute of the match.

St George's had also two wasted opportunities created from two counter attacks by their fast striker in the second half that were saved by the Rabat defence on the goal line. While the result was on a draw of one each, Rabat had a good scoring opportunity (the one and only in the second half) from a corner kick which was unfortunately headed on the post. This goal could have made the story completely different in terms of the result, but not on the performance of the Magpies.