The Swieqi United Post
Match25 Sep 2027
5 matches without a win for Swieqi United
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Swieqi United are no longer polite ones.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Danilo Borges in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Swieqi United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Juan Cruz Aguilar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Asante
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Yannick Yankam makes it 200
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Swieqi United lose Jake Grech
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Yannick Yankam runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Antonio Debono on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Antonio Debono after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match25 Sep 2027
Swieqi United and Valletta cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Valletta came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
In brief
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Léo Reis
- Looking ahead Connor Zammit goes back to face Hibernians
- Market Danilo Borges linked with a move away