The next official match of the season for the Magpies in the first division league is against
Statistics from season 1997/1998 to date
First Division (97/98), Rabat vs St George's : 3-0 Paul Farrugia (x2), Adrian Mifsud
First Division (97/98), St George's vs Rabat: 2-3 Herbert Vassallo, Adrian Mifsud, Michael Farrugia
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Wins | 2 | 0 |
Draws | 0 | 0 |
Losts | 0 | 2 |
Official matches played by Rabat this season (DLDLLL)
Rabat vs Vittoriosa 1-1
Mqabba vs Rabat 3-1
Pieta vs Rabat 0-0
Rabat vs Dingli 0-2
Rabat vs Hamrun 1-3
St Patrick vs Rabat 1-0
Official matches played by St George's this season (WLDDLW)
St George's vs Senglea 2-3 (St Georges won match 2-0 after protest)
St Patrick vs St George's 4-0
St George's vs San Gwann 1-1
Mosta vs St George's 1-1
Hibernians vs St George's 2-0
St George's vs Senglea 2-0
In recent years these two teams, have encountered each other in only two circumstances which occurred in the same year about 10/11 years ago. Both matches are in favor of the Magpies, and in both matches the veteran Rabat Ajax striker Adrian Mifsud left his sign. These should be encouraging to increase confidence among the players, for the first official victory of the season and to continue on a positive note the encounters between the two teams.
Though history results are in favor of the Magpies, recent results tell another story. St George's look to be a bit inconsistent in their results where they managed to obtain two victories (one of them after a protest), two draws and two defeats (one of them was quite abysmal and against the Magpies last match opponents). Rabat on the other side are still waiting for their first victory of the season, and which everyone have been waiting for from the end of the last season, that is the promotion decider against Balzan Youths.
What can be said about the Magpies is that during every match they played so far, they always had their best moments, but not the best is being taken out of them where too many occasions are being wasted. In this division errors cannot be made, since for every error that is being made, the team is being punished by a class of more experienced players and teams. All opportunities created during the match must be exploited to their maximum in order to increase the morale of every playing individual and to grow as one solid team, as happened in the previous successful years.
Another point that I want to criticise on is the fact that one third of the goals conceded this year (a total of nine) started from a dead-ball situation. Two of them also occurred in the last two matches, Hamrun and St Patrick respectively. Does this mean that the team is being to static when coming to these types of situations? As happened last year the
Current year results have already been produced by the Magpies two years ago (2006/7), when they were promoted from third division to second division. In fact in that year the league was started with four consecutive defeats, but which then continued with much better results till the end of the season, where a third respective league position was obtained. Hopefully, this year something similar will happen but wishing that the winning way starts earlier!
If you remember any memorable matches or any other useful information or comments regarding any match between these two teams that you wish to share, post comments below.
2 comments:
Wow, you did your research!
Keep it up!
hehe impressive man.. but Mellieha are the toughest team around ...
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