Liberty Professionals vs Hearts of Oak: Regional derby in Accra

The Accra Sports Stadium will be the venue where Liberty Professionals will be play as homesters to glorious Accra Hearts of Oak who will be invited as guest under the new tutelage of Portuguese coach Sergio Daniel Muril Traguil.

It has already been a story of two sour fairytale marital affairs between these two sides each time they meet no matter the venue.

Accra Sports Stadium is a familiar territory for this encounter pressing hard for the need for the two sides to prepare adequately for this tiring but always entertaining encounter.

Witnessing week seventeen league game there wouldn't be anything special of a sort different from what has already been done in previous games between both sides.

After last Sunday's defeat to Abusua Dwarf at the newly built Cape Coast sports stadium by Christopher Bonney's spot kick, the scientific soccer lads will be relishing to redeem their image of avoiding another consecutive defeat when they lost in week ten (10) and eleven (11) to Aduana and Medeama SC in that order.

Arguably enjoying one of their best season's in topflight football amassing a wholesome twenty-four (24) points after sixteen (16) games on the sixth (6th) position is not anything to be complacence of going into a crucial battle against a 19-times local champions.

Incredibly having a better and potent attacking option that their rivals in match-day seventeen (17) with twenty-one goals to their credit, it will be a concern to Liberty that they have a porous defence their opponents, who also have a reasonable number of goals recorded- eighteen (18), can also capitalize on.

On the divisive side in perspective, Accra Hearts of Oak will hold on to a their fine record against the Dansoman-based side to give a very good account of themselves with the mindset of maintaining a better position from last season.

Without an iota of doubt, the rainbow side is on a very good season as juxtaposed to their last six seasons and will be in hay to take that to their advantage to make a mark of reaching a top height this season in the league with Liberty Professionals falling as victims.

Accra Hearts of Oak has started the second on a good note as they overcame a stubborn Dreams FC side last Sunday in Accra through Cosmos Dauda's solitary goal which has moved them from fourth to second position on the league table.

A defeat against Liberty will only see them move down the table and will start another dilly-dallying of the club on the league log.

It might sound strange where and how Hearts of Oak can defeat Liberty Professionals looking at the form and class the scientific soccer lads have exhibited so far in the league but it will be only be a cheap thought for one to understand how easy it will be from Hearts' away performance so far this season as they are yet to lose an away game.

Sergio Traguil will have a huge mantra to save against Liberty Professionals as Kenichi Yatsuhashi maintained a standard for the club in away games akin to George Lamptey who would love to repeat his comments of "Hearts is the cheapest side I have played this season" when he defeated them in Accra in week fourteen (14) of the league after the this encounter.

MATCH OFFICIALS

Center referee: A.D Mohammed

Assistant line one: Ashitey Amarh

Assistant line two: Sylvester Bonuedi

Fourth official: Maxwell Hanson

Match Commissioner: Kweku Eyiah