Dear HT Diary - Survivor, The Relegation Battle Begin
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Each season, when season coming near to the end, there are fierce battle on the relegation zone to avoid the drop. This season 25 is no exception as well with the remaining 3 matches to go. The 7th and 8th position will get the automatic relegation while 5th and 6th position will get the play-off with home advantage. Now let us look at the bottom of the league and see how the teams fare to survive?
In the Liga, there are 5 teams fighting for the survival which including 3 newcomers for this season, Junwei, belachan and Scorton Rovers as well as last season 5th place Exxon and the most surprising is last season Liga champion, checker, also fighting for the survival as well. In the early stage of the season, checker seem like looking for the drop, but now they seem able to make the last ditch to survice as checker currently lying in 7th position with 3points adrift of 6th place. Will checker experience able to secure them the play-off place starting with this weekend home match against relegation battle belachan that who win this match will increase their chances of surviving for sure. Bottom of the table Scorton Rovers look like have little chance to survive unless there are miracles in their last 3 matches as they are away to 2nd place kickaball this weekend. 4th place Exxon also far from secure as they will travel to 5th place Junwei and just leading by 2points above the play-off zone. So potentially the final position will be determined on the last match of the season for the strongest league, the Liga Perdana.
Moving down to div II.1, it seem the season probably over for last place Roving Wolves and 7th place sgi98football unless they can surprise their opponent with the upset wins. 4th-6th place teams are just a point gap and they will for sure fighting for the automatic secure spot in 4th place as is still up for grab in the remaining 3 matches which are among InvincibleX, BringItAwn and LiverBIRD FC.
Next is div II.2, also similar senario as div II.1, last place Fiorentia Viola look set for the relegation and 7th place PurpleStorm need to win at home against Fiorentia Viola to close the gap on 6th place and stand a chance to get the play-off position. Just 3 points gap between 4th place UnderWorld XI and 6th place JOHOR CALCIO with Old Spidey United in the 5th place.
For div II.3, the strongest league in div II, there are 4 teams fighting for the survival. They are H2 Utd, Badman Team, Ngap Sayot and Kota Damansara. Kota Damansara is in the last place, looking not good with the remaining 3 matches against the top 3 teams as Kota Damansara need the wins badly in order to survive. While the other 3 teams are just 1 points seperating them to get into 2 play-off spots only.
And lastly is div II.4, last place Temujin United will be relegated while 7th place ODC United will also nearing to the drop. 6th place ittutordotNET almost confirm the play-off spot while 5th place Air Itam United has outside chance to climb out of play-off zone.
This is my personal opinion on this post, sorry if I got bias or comment badly on any team as I hope I didnt. Also hoping this post will motivate those teams in the relegation battle to fight until the end of the season to avoid the drop. Feel free to give comment on your views/opinions.
