Po­lice FC coach Richard Hood be­lieves a top-two fin­ish in the T&T Pro League, which will as­sure his team a berth in the Caribbean Club Cham­pi­onship, is achiev­able.

The 'Law­men' are in sec­ond po­si­tion on the 10-team stand­ings with 26 points and four match­es left against Ter­minix St Ann's Rangers, North East Stars, Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed and Cen­tral FC. The Po­lice­men played un­beat­en in eight of their last nine match­es, which took them to four points be­hind lead­ers W Con­nec­tion (30 points).

Hood in a brief in­ter­view said, “The in­ten­tion is to first qual­i­fy for the Caribbean Club Cham­pi­onship. We would like to fin­ish as cham­pi­ons but that is not re­al­ly with­in our hands. So the in­ten­tion is to fin­ish sec­ond which is with­in our hands.”

Po­lice, in 1991, fin­ished run­ners-up be­hind cham­pi­ons Club Puebla of Mex­i­co in the CON­CA­CAF Cham­pi­ons’ Cup. Hood, was a mem­ber of that team, but his play­ing days were cut short by a bro­ken leg.

“Cred­it to our play­ers, most of whom have been to­geth­er for the last few sea­sons and have giv­en their best this sea­son. The play­ers want to achieve some­thing, the staff wants to do well this sea­son, and where we are now couldn’t be pos­si­ble with­out the Po­lice Ser­vice af­ford­ing us the time to train and re­cov­er, like a pro­fes­sion­al team,” Hood ex­plained.

The first of four games will be­gin to­day with a match-up against cel­lar-place Rangers from 6 pm at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, the first of a dou­ble­head­er. In the oth­er con­test at 8 pm, De­fence Force will take on San Juan Jabloteh.

Con­nec­tion, on the oth­er hand will take on Cale­do­nia this af­ter­noon from 3:30 pm at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um. And in their next three match­es, they will face Point Fortin Civic, San Juan Jabloteh and North East Stars, in that or­der. Cen­tral FC, an­oth­er team bat­tling for the top two places in the league, will have a date with Civic at 7 pm at Ma­haica Oval tonight.

The Con­nec­tion men are win­less in their last four out­ings though main­tain­ing an un­beat­en run, but with Po­lice, Cen­tral and Club San­do tight on their heels, the “Savonet­ta Boys” can­not af­ford to drop an­oth­er point.

Cen­tral and San­do are both on 24 points and are al­so keen of grab­bing one of the top two spots at stake for the right to play in the CON­CA­CAF play-off, the re­gion’s qual­i­fy­ing tour­na­ment to the CON­CA­CAF Cham­pi­ons League and CON­CA­CAF League.

North East Stars and Con­nec­tion, which were cham­pi­ons and run­ners-up of last sea­son, have al­ready booked their places for the 2019 edi­tion of the CON­CA­CAF tour­na­ment.

TO­DAY'S MATCH­ES

W Con­nec­tion vs Mor­vant Cale­do­nia Unit­ed, 3:30 pm at Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la

Po­lice FC vs Ter­minix St. Ann’s Rangers, 6 pm at Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo

De­fence Force FC vs San Juan Jabloteh, 8 pm at Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo

Point Fortin Civic vs Cen­tral FC, 7pm at Ma­haica Oval, Point Fortin.