TARXIEN RAINBOWS 0

PIETA’ HOTSPURS 0

Tarxien Rainbows and Pieta’ Hotspurs failed to improved their positions at the lower end of the standings after cancelling each out in a low-key encounter.

The match turned out to be a drab affair with both sides clearly short of ideas in front of goal with the result that chances were few and far between.

David Cassar, the Pieta’ goalkeeper was called into action inside the opening six minutes when he fisted away Jorge’s long-range shot.

The game remained finely-poised with Rainbows showing more menace each time they ventured forward. The Rainbows were linking up better in attack, Jorge running onto Cleber’s pass, sped into the box from the right but found no takers past the half hour mark.

Before half-time, Jorge turned provider with a well-taken freekick but Wesley headed out.

Five minutes into the second half, Alessandro Lopes Pereira’s header from an Alvaro Silva was tipped over the bar by Cassar.

At last the game sprung to life. Tarxien ought to have scored few moments later when Alvaro Silva using his speed unsettled Jurgen Pisani, veered infield from the right before releasing a low drive which finished just off the far post of Cassar.

Pieta’ served up a warning of their counter-attacking threat after 72 minutes when Kyle Cesare shielded the ball well before unleashing a drive which missed the target by a whisker.

In the end the scoreless stalemate prevailed as both teams looked happy to have settled for a point.