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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 11 JANUARY 2015 33 Sport FOOTBALL SPORTTODAY Valletta ease past Pieta EDWARD FALZON Valletta ........................ 3 Pieta ............................ 0 VALLETTA easily disposed of op- ponents Pieta thanks to a brace by Hamza Barry to stay in second with Birkirkara. Hamza Barry was the main protagonist for the Champi- ons scoring twice before half time which paved the way for an easy three points. Valletta had the returning Jonath- an Caruana and Roderick Briffa replacing Luke Montebello and Llywelyn Cremona in the starting line-up. Valletta looked in control from the beginning of the match, going close from a Jonathan Caruana effort who missed the post by a bit. On 21 min- utes Ryan Fenech's effort scraped by the post after a free kick taken by Nafti. After a half hour, again it was Valletta who went close to scoring with Elford-Alliyu hitting the post. Six minutes before the interval, Valletta went ahead when a corner taken by Nafti, was headed by Barry to beat the Pieta keeper. Just before the break, Valletta went two up with similar fashion when off another corner taken by Nafti, Barry again headed the ball into the net. The second half barely had any goal scoring opportunities with Val- letta easily controlling the match and Pieta waiting for the final whis- tle. However eight minutes from time, substitute Luke Montebello made it three goals to nil after receiving from Barry. VALLETTA Nicholas George Vella, Johathan Caruana, Ian Azzopardi, Steve Borg, Ryan Camilleri, Ryan Fenech, Hamza Barry (89' Daniel Camilleri), Roderick Briffa, Lateef Elford-Alliyu (81' Luke Montebello), Abdelkarim Nafti (79' Llewelyn Cre- mona), Luke Dimech. Subs not used: Ryan Caruana, Ha- mid Ismael Alkamali, Jean Borg, Stefan Cassar. Coach: Gilbert Agius PIETÀ David Cassar, Karl Micallef, Leonardo Fortunato dos Santos, Christian Grech, Rafael Rodrigues da Silva, Dylan Agius, Orosco Ndu- bisi Anonam (70' Neil Pace Cocks), Kyle Cesare, Joao Gabriel da Silva (83' Mark Kecskes Zsolt), Claudio Francis, Luke Emanuel Micallef (88' Christian Stewart). Subs not used: Miguel Montfort, Ayrton Mizzi, Gary Sultana, Josuel Spiteri. Coach: Alfred Attard Referee: Andre Arciola Assistant Referees: Chris Francalan- za, Thomas Debono Fourth Official: Alan Mario Sant Yellow cards: Briffa, Azzopardi Scorers: 39' Hamza Barry, 45' Ham- za Barry, 82' Luke Montebello BOV Player of the Match: Hamza Barry PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ATTARD