Brazilian duo set to debut in Goroka as top-table clash thrills Madang

The sixth round of the top-tier football league in Papua New Guinea, the PNG National Soccer League comes with a lot of emotions in the entire country. Hekari United will travel to the Highlands for their clash against FC Kutubu where their new recruits from Brazil – Erick Joe and Vinícius – will be available for the coach Jerry Allen to make their debut for the Red Army.

Vitiaz United travels to Madang to play against the exciting side of Tusbab Stallions at the Laiwaden Oval. The both sides are currently at the top of the table inside the zone that qualifies for the semifinals stage of the national league. Both Vitiaz and Stallions caught the attention nationwide with their good performances in the first five rounds of the competition.

Star Mountain needs to improve their season: the club based in Port Moresby suffered another defeat in the last round against Gulf Komara. The side has lost four and drawn one of their matches so far this season. The club will hope veteran attacker Tau Winnie can deliver a few more goals in the coming weeks, having picked up just one so far.

Morobe Wawens, on the other side of the story, will be traveling to the capital to face Star Mountain with their second victory in the bag after beating FC Bougainville at Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium in Lae.

The strong Lae City side suffered a hard defeat to accept in the last weekened when they faced Vitiaz United in Lae. The 2-1 defeat was the major upset of the season for the team coached by Peter Gunemba so far and they will be hoping to grab another three points when they travel to Port Moresby to play FC Bougainville. The Ecuadorian Abdias Aguirre might be making his debut for Lae – the other Ecuadorian import Gustine Icaza already debuted in their previous match.

FC Bougainville must improve for this important match at home, after suffering a harsh defeat away from home against Morobe Wawens in Lae. Lae City will need to take care of striker Jonathan Allen, who has already found the net four times for FC Bougainville this season so far.

Hekari United will look to keep their good form as they face in Goroka, Kutubu. The current leaders of the league has won all matches so far in the league, but needed to fight hard to win Tusbab Stallions last weekend in Port Moresby with a last-minute winner from Koriak Upaiga.

Kutubu has won two matches so far in the season and sits in 6th place in the competition. Their main striker Andrew Apo has scored four goals so far in the season and will be the key man if the team from the Highlands want to cause an upset this weekend. They will be looking to recover from their 1-0 defeat last weekend against Morobe United.

The experienced Jeremy Yasasa scored the winner for the Lae-based Morobe United against Kutubu in their latest clash in Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, but the team in green needed to fight a lot to overcome the opponents. They will be receiving Gulf Komara in Lae and both sides will be coming from a high as they recorded important wins in their clash in the previous round.

Gulf Komara, after being beaten by Tusbab Stallions, changed their head coach, and they got a very fast response: they collected their first three points of the season last week with a win against Star Mountain.

One of the most entertaining matches of the weekened will take place in Madang as Tusbab Stallions will receive at Laiwaden Oval the 3rd placed site Vitiaz United. Both teams come in high-spirits for the contest, especially the visitors as they grabbed a very important win against Lae City thanks a brace of Joel Tiampo.

Stallions are coming from a hard contest against Hekari which they lost in the last minutes due a free kick scored by Koriak Upaiga. The team counts on the flair of Stahl Gubag: the 20-year old forward is the top goalscorer of the league so far with six goals scored in five matches played. The outcome of the contest will certainly have a lot of influence on national football in the week, as well on the standings of the PNG National Soccer League – click here to see the full standings of the league so far.