Match Report
12 points and 4 places separated them: Melaka United 5th with 33, PKNS 9th with 21. Per game in the league, Melaka United were scoring 1.55 and conceding 1.36, PKNS 1.68 and 1.73, against a competition average of 1.52 goals per team per game.
Melaka United entered with four wins in a row, having scored in 12 consecutive games. Defeat had followed defeat for PKNS — three in succession, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Over the last five, Melaka United had taken 13 of 15 points to PKNS's 3.
The match was played at Stadium Hang Jebat in Melaka (capacity 40,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-1.