Home United have to face an uphill battle against Albirex Niigata in the clash which could decide the 2017 S.League title race.<\/p>\n
Third-placed Home United are one of two teams still with a realistic chance of overtaking the defending champions, with four games in hand to reduce a 16-point gap.<\/p>\n
Playing less than four games compared to table toppers Albirex Niigata, the Protectors can cut the gap to a single point if they win their four games in hand.<\/p>\n
Second-placed Tampines Rovers trail Albirex by nine points but they have only a game in hand.<\/p>\n
“We need to be ready for the next four games and try to get the miracle,” Home skipper Hassan Sunny said on the club\u2019s official Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n “This is football and sometimes you need to create that miracle for yourself.<\/p>\n “We want to end the month on a high. By that, I mean in a good position to fight for the title and the Singapore Cup and I believe we are ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Home United have to face an uphill battle against Albirex Niigata in the clash which could decide the 2017 S.League title race. Third-placed Home United are one of two teams still with a realistic chance of overtaking the defending champions, with four games in hand to reduce a 16-point gap. Playing less than four games compared to table toppers Albirex Niigata, the Protectors can cut the gap to a single point if they win their four games in hand. Second-placed Tampines Rovers trail Albirex by nine points but they have only a game in hand. “We need to be ready for the next four games and try to get the … Continue reading “Home United eye on champions ahead of Albirex Niigata clash”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154"}],"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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}