Kadeem Fred­er­ick scored the lone goal as Cen­tral/East­ern Di­vi­sion edged West­ern Di­vi­sion 1-0 to be cer­tain of a semi­fi­nal spot in the 110th an­niver­sary of the Port-of-Spain Cor­po­ra­tion Foot­ball League Tour­na­ment at Nel­son Man­dela Park, St Clair on Fri­day night.

With the win, Cen­tral/East­ern joined fel­low un­beat­en team Trans­port & Cleans­ing in a two-way share of the lead on the sev­en-team ta­ble with 13 points from five match­es and con­firmed as two of the semi­fi­nals qual­i­fiers ahead of their fi­nal round clash on Mon­day from 6 pm.

In an­oth­er match on Fri­day night, Sean Ram­doo scored both goals to fire Cen­tral Mar­ket to a com­fort­able 2-0 tri­umph over cel­lar-placed Cor­po­ra­tion Vet­er­ans to im­prove to eight points in the third spot, and need­ing on­ly a draw in their fi­nal match against fifth placed Pub­lic Health, who have five points to ad­vance to the semis.

Pub­lic Health stay in the semi­fi­nal hunt fol­low­ing a 1-1 draw with City Hall with Kern Mal­colm strike be­ing can­celled out by Jabari Raphael.

Fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the round-robin phase of the com­pe­ti­tion on Mon­day, the top four teams will con­test the semi­fi­nals on Wednes­day, Ju­ly 10 fol­lowed by the third place play­off and fi­nal on Fri­day, Ju­ly 12.

Re­sults

Fri­day, Ju­ly 5

Cen­tral Mar­ket 2 (Sean Ram­doo 2) vs Cor­po­ra­tion Vet­er­ans 0

Man-of-the-match: Joel Thomas (Cor­po­ra­tion Vet­er­ans)

Pub­lic Health 1 (Kern Mal­colm) vs City Hall 1 (Jabari Raphael)

Man-of-the-match: Jabari Raphael (City Hall)

Cen­tral/East­ern 1 (Kadeem Fred­er­ick) vs West­ern Di­vi­sion 0

Man-of-the-match: Kadeem Fred­er­ick

Lat­est Stand­ings

Teams P W D L F A Pts

1. Trans­port&Cleans­ing*5*4* 1*0*13*3*13

2. Cen­tral/East­ern*5*4*1*0*9*1*13

3. Cen­tral Mar­ket*5*2*2*1*6*4*8

4. West­ern Di­vi­sion*5*2*0*3*5*5*6

5. Pub­lic Health*5*1*2*3*8*6*5

6. City Hall*6*1*2*3*4*11*5

7. Vet­er­ans*5*0*0*5*0*15*0

Up­com­ing match­es

Mon­day

Cen­tral/East­ern vs Trans­port & Cleans­ing, 6 pm

Cor­po­ra­tion Vet­er­ans vs West­ern Di­vi­sion, 7 pm

Cen­tral Mar­ket vs Pub­lic Health, 8 pm