Senglea A win the National Amateur Super Cup

NATIONAL AMATEUR SUPER CUP 2022/23
Senglea Athletic 1-0 Zabbar St Patrick

NAL champions Senglea Athletic crowned their wonderful season yesterday afternoon by winning the Amateur Super Cup, beating Amateur Cup winners Zabbar St Patrick by a solitary goal. Playmaker Sebastian Perdomo, who also scored one of the two goals in Senglea’s Championship Play-Off against Msida St Joseph two weeks ago, scored the only goal of the match, wrapping up a splendid season with another five-star performance. The Colombian livewire was at times simply unstoppable.

Coach Edgar Degabriele made space for Nicholas Gauci in defence instead of Neil Grech in his line-up, and with Timmy Thomas not fully fit, ex-Rabat duo Larens Vella and Aidan Azzopardi started up front.

Zabbar fielded a strong formation, with Cornago leaving out Andre-Joe Cutajar who entered the fray late in the match.

Played in superb weather conditions, Zabbar initially controlled the match but the first half clearly lacked goalmouth action. The first shot on target arrived on the half hour mark when Carmelo Caruana had to perfom a routine save on a header by David Oliveira.

After the break, Cornago’s side continued to pile the pressure towards the Cottonera side, but the Senglea rear-guard refused to bulge. Close to the hour mark, Senglea scored the only goal of the match when a freekick by Perdomo found Jonathan Grech unprepared, putting the Sengleans into the lead. Perdomo could have doubled a few minutes later, but his shot from inside the box went sailed wide. St Patrick threw all out on attack in the remaining minutes of the match but the Senglea defence were rock solid as ever, never giving away an inch.

Malta FA General Secretary Dr Angelo Chetcuti presented the medals and Cup, this time to captain Keith Vella and Senglea club icon Timmy Thomas.