Police and FC South End will meet in the second ever penalty shoot- out to determine the tenth qualifier for the second annual Lucozade Sport Goal Shield knockout tournament hosted by the T&T Pro League. The penalty shoot-out takes place at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya from 6 pm today, with the winner, advancing to a qualifying round encounter versus DirecTV North East Stars in one of the two qualifying round matches from 8.30pm for a quarterfinal spot. Two hours earlier, St Ann's Rangers and Tobago United will meet in the first qualifying round clash.
However, in the penalty-kicks contest, South End will be hoping to avoid the same result from last year when it went under to Tobago United 4-2 who then defeated Police 5-3 also from spot-kicks after a 0-0 draw. But while the lawmen have not enjoyed a good first-half to its league season, losing, seven of ten matches it will take some confidence in that its lone win came against today's opponents, South End 3-1. Tobago will also fancy its chances of reaching the last eight for a second straight season having blanked Rangers 3-0 in its only meeting so far this season.
The winner of the Tobago/Rangers will face unbeaten league leaders, Defence Force in the quarterfinal round while Rangers/Tobago against Stars winner gets a date with bmobile Joe Public. Defence, Joe Public, W connection, Ma Pau, San Juan Jabloteh and Caledonia AIA were all handed automatic places in the quarterfinals after occupying positions one to six on the Digicel Pro League table at the end of Round One Match Day 11. The teams through position seventh (Stars), eighth (Rangers) and ninth (Tobago) also qualified automatically for the qualifying.
Last year's inaugural winners, W Connection who defeated Defence Force 3-0 in the final starts its defence against Caledonia at Macoya on July 30. The other set quarterfinal at the same venue one day later will see Ma Pau and Jabloteh.
