Sloppy Malta fall to Azerbaijan

The Malta ladies’s nationwide group fell to a 2-0 defeat in opposition to Azerbaijan of their ultimate dwelling World Cup qualifier on the Centenary Stadium on Friday.

The Azeri aspect scored a purpose in every half via Kristina Bakarandze and Diana Mammadova handy their nation the three factors.

In consequence, Azerbaijan have now pipped Malta to fifth as they moved to 6 factors whereas Malta at the moment are on the backside with 4 factors to indicate for his or her efforts.

Malta will face Montenegro of their final sport from this marketing campaign on this competitors.

For this sport, coach Mark Gatt deployed Birkirkara’s Janice Xuereb between the sticks marshalled by defenders Nicole Sciberras, Stephania Farrugia, Charlene Zammit and Jade Flask.

Emma Lipman, captaining the aspect, performed alongside Shona Zammit and Rachel Cuschieri within the midfield.

Upfront, Haley Bugeja, Maria Farrugia and Brenda Borg fashioned an attacking trio.

Earlier than this sport, Gatt was offered with a commemorative memento by Malta FA president Bjorn Vassallo.

Gatt is not going to proceed as Malta ladies’s coach after this competitors, having been in cost since 2015.

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