{"id":29464,"date":"2025-09-23T00:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=29464"},"modified":"2025-09-23T00:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:33:04","slug":"untouchable-jdts-crushing-of-sabah-proves-the-liga-super-is-theirs-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2025\/09\/23\/untouchable-jdts-crushing-of-sabah-proves-the-liga-super-is-theirs-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Untouchable: JDT\u2019s Crushing of Sabah Proves the Liga Super Is Theirs Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"347\"><strong>If anyone still needed proof that the Liga Super Malaysia is becoming a one-horse race, September 21\u2019s clash between defending champions Johor Darul Ta\u2019zim (JDT) and Sabah FC at the Sultan Ibrahim Stadium delivered it in emphatic fashion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"579\">Facing a side that has consistently hovered around the top half of the table in recent years, JDT didn\u2019t just cruise to a routine victory \u2013 they utterly dismantled Sabah, running out 8-0 winners in a statement of pure dominance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"995\">This was no understrength Sabah either. Jean-Paul de Marigny\u2019s men fielded a lineup packed with heavy hitters: Fergus Tierney, Khairul Fahmi Che Mat, Stuart Wilkin, Dominic Tan, Cifu, and Dane Ingham. But despite the quality at their disposal, the Rhinos were completely powerless to stop the Southern Tigers, underlining the sheer gulf in class between JDT and the rest of the league.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1361\">Bergson made history on the night, cementing his status as the Liga Super\u2019s all-time top scorer. His hat-trick took him to a staggering 109 goals, surpassing Malaysian legend Indra Putra Mahayuddin\u2019s long-standing tally of 106. The Brazilian\u2019s nearest active challenger is Kelantan The Real Warriors&#8217; Ifedayo Olusegun, who sits at 90 goals \u2013 a full 19 behind.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1507\">Joao Figueiredo matched Bergson with a hat-trick of his own, while Oscar Arribas and Raul Parra added to the humiliation, completing the rout.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1509\" data-end=\"1749\">The result \u2013 JDT\u2019s sixth win from six \u2013 further solidified their inevitable march toward a 12th consecutive Liga Super title. Domestically, it\u2019s no longer a question of whether anyone can stop JDT, but simply how far ahead they\u2019ll finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone still needed proof that the Liga Super Malaysia is becoming a one-horse race, September 21\u2019s clash between defending champions Johor Darul Ta\u2019zim (JDT) and Sabah FC at the Sultan Ibrahim Stadium delivered it in emphatic fashion. Facing a side that has consistently hovered around the top half of the table in recent years, JDT didn\u2019t just cruise to a routine victory \u2013 they utterly dismantled Sabah, running out 8-0 winners in a statement of pure dominance. This was no understrength Sabah either. Jean-Paul de Marigny\u2019s men fielded a lineup packed with heavy hitters: Fergus Tierney, Khairul Fahmi Che Mat, Stuart Wilkin, Dominic Tan, Cifu, and Dane Ingham. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2025\/09\/23\/untouchable-jdts-crushing-of-sabah-proves-the-liga-super-is-theirs-again\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Untouchable: JDT\u2019s Crushing of Sabah Proves the Liga Super Is Theirs Again&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857,26],"tags":[65,2247,2338,64,633,1677,95,315],"class_list":["post-29464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","category-southeast-asia","tag-johor-darul-tazim","tag-liga-super","tag-liga-super-malaysia","tag-malaysia","tag-malaysia-super-league","tag-sabah","tag-slider","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29465,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29464\/revisions\/29465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}