Match Report
6 points and 5 places separated them: Santa Lucia 6th with 32, Valletta 1st with 38. On recent form Santa Lucia sat only 18th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 6th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Santa Lucia 5.14 scored and 5.86 conceded per game, Valletta 1.93 and 0.27, with the league averaging 2.34.
4 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Santa Lucia 1, draws 1, Valletta 2, at 2 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 75% of the meetings. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 25% of the meetings.
MFA Centenary Stadium, capacity 2,000, hosted the game. Valletta led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 0-3 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Valletta: James Scicluna (71'), Jake Azzopardi (80'), 1 goal with no recorded scorer
Key stats
Total shots: 6-9 · On target: 1-2 · Corners: 4-3