SLVC Preview: SAFFC vs Home on 20-Aug - Another Titanic Clash!!

Home United's next opponent on 20-Aug, defending champions SAFFC, is not just the most successful club in S.League history (with 5 championships & being the all-time table leader), but also the most accomplished team in SLVC alongside Home, having won the title 12 times, as well as topping the all-time standings of SLVC mini-league since 2002, only to be overtaken by Home recently on 17-Aug-2007.

The following were SAFFC's 12 previous SLVC title winning matches:

006 1996-05-07 Home------ Sing. AF-- 0 2

015 1996-07-13 Geylang--- Sing. AF-- 0 2

068 1998-07-25 Woodlands- Sing. AF-- 0 3

125 2001-06-01 Sing. AF-- Jurong---- 2 0

136 2001-08-18 Sing. AF-- Tampines-- 8 2 *The Record Win for a SLVC Challenger!!

147 2002-02-22 Sing. AF-- Tampines-- 2 1

169 2002-07-28 Woodlands- Sing. AF-- 1 2

191 2003-05-24 Sing. AF-- Home------ 1 0

205 2003-08-30 Sing. AF-- Geylang--- 3 2

228 2004-06-30 Sing. AF-- Geylang--- 2 0

249 2005-05-14 Sing. AF-- Tampines-- 3 2

267 2006-03-10 Sing. AF-- Home------ 2 1

In this titanic clash, several things will be at stake:
1.SAFFC (currently 2nd in the league) will hope to beat Home (current leader) to overtake the top spot on Goal Difference.
2.SAFFC will be keen to exact revenge on Home who beat them 2-0 on 18-May-2007, which was also an SLVC match.
3.SAFFC will also hope to regain its leadership in all-time SLVC mini-league standings, with Home just 1 point ahead.

Unlike the few teams Home played earlier on, SAFFC is understandably one of the only 2 teams (the other is surprisingly Gombak United) that fared better against Home head-to-head in SLVC, having met 14 times: won 6, drew 4 & lost 4; scored 19 & conceded 17 in the process.

List of results as follows: (WDL was from SAFFC's of View)
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#- Date------ Home Team- Away Team HG AG Holder--- Challenger WDL
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01 1996-05-07 Home------ Sing. AF-- 0 2 Home------ Sing. AF-- W
02 1996-07-23 Home------ Sing. AF-- 1 4 Sing. AF-- Home------ W
03 1996-09-28 Sing. AF-- Home------ 3 0 Sing. AF-- Home------ W
04 1999-05-01 Home------ Sing. AF-- 2 0 Sing. AF-- Home------ L
05 1999-09-01 Sing. AF-- Home------ 0 0 Home------ Sing. AF-- D
06 2000-07-20 Home------ Sing. AF-- 2 2 Home------ Sing. AF-- D
07 2001-06-07 Home------ Sing. AF-- 4 0 Sing. AF-- Home------ L
08 2002-04-27 Home------ Sing. AF-- 2 2 Sing. AF-- Home------ D
09 2002-09-21 Sing. AF-- Home------ 1 1 Sing. AF-- Home------ D
10 2003-03-01 Home------ Sing. AF-- 2 1 Sing. AF-- Home------ L
11 2003-05-24 Sing. AF-- Home------ 1 0 Home------ Sing. AF-- W
12 2005-05-19 Home------ Sing. AF-- 0 1 Sing. AF-- Home------ W
13 2006-03-10 Sing. AF-- Home------ 2 1 Home------ Sing. AF-- W
14 2007-05-18 Home------ Sing. AF-- 2 0 Home------ Sing. AF-- L
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In terms of playing against Home as host & challenger, SAFFC's results were also favourable, having won twice and drew once according to the above listings.

In fact, SAFFC has never lost as host (holder/challenger regardless), & has only lost once to Home as a challenger (home/away regardless), which happened to be the same match on 18-May-2007 as mentioned in point #2 above.

For more info on the match-up, please visit previews on SLeague.Com & TodayOnline.

Who do you think will win on 20-Aug? With both teams fighting hard for the 2007 League Title & Tampines preying from behind, it is going to be yet another electrifying contest!

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