 Football is still the topic on the Sports Mag Zone. The Reign Nephew Jamaica, primarily continuing its road to the playoffs on Sunday, has match week 19 takes centre stage. Now with the best teams in the country justling four positions. Let's now have a look at how the table is shaping up. Cavalier, the leaders at the moment on 40 points. They're just one ahead of the champions Mount Pleasant and just three in front of third place Tivoli Gardens. Portmore United, seven-time champions are just four points off the lead and fourth. Arnett Garnes right there as well on 34 points. Waterhouse, some distance back, that's eight points adrift of Arnett Garnes in sixth position. Dunbar Holden, Montego Bay United, the team's closest to the playoff spots at seven and eight. And Treasure Beach and Limehall, bottom of the barrel as they have been for most of the season. So let's look at the fixtures for Sunday coming up. Live on Sports Mags, Limehall Academy against Dunbar Holden, Mount Pleasant against Tivoli Gardens, that's going to be a big one. And the other games fixtures for the weekend, Portmore United against Harbour View, Humbleland, Montego Bay United, Treasure Beach taking on Mellines United, Waterhouse and Arnett Garnes battling and Cavalier taking on Veer United as well. An obvious standout clash is the featured game on Sports Mags where a second place Mount Pleasant will host third place Tivoli at Draxall Sports Complex, joining us to break down this clash. And more, our in-house football analyst, Ligea Williams, that's going to be a big one. My producer has asked me to question you about your choice of gear because you've come here to talk about football and you're wearing a cricket jersey. People may know me as a prediction guru for football but I have to let the people at home know, even the producer know as well that I'm a multi-sport guy so I just decided to show up in some, you know, win this gear as well to show the people. Alright sir, continue on your football assignment now. This Mount Pleasant Tivoli clash on Sunday is going to be a big one, both teams playing well and Tivoli looking strong. Yeah, this is so far in the season I think. We've seen the first round of fixtures with everyone playing each other but I think now as we go down to the real business end of it heading to playoffs, I think this can be a real psychological battle in terms of what we expect to see in the playoffs and I think so far this might be the biggest battle that we've seen so far this season, I think at very least. I think if a Tivoli team were able to go to Draxall in front of the Mount Pleasant support and get a result there whether it be a draw or a win, especially a win, I think psychologically they would really dent the psyche of some of the bigger teams who already saw what they did against Arnett Garnes a few weeks back when they come from behind wins so I do think that this Tivoli team they're cooking on some serious smoke right now and I do think that if they were to get this result more heads would be turned so to say. A couple of things to look at here Lesha because when they had met in the first round in November Mount Pleasant won the game by one goal to nil Kimoni Bailey was the goal scorer he has had some injury issues and hasn't played a lot since well he certainly had scored in a goal since that November 23 winner that he scored against Tivoli he's back now how fit is he and how much will Mount Pleasant depend on Kimoni Bailey being unsung to take care of Tivoli. Well I mean the good thing for Mount Pleasant is that well we know about the the riches in squad that Mount Pleasant have so they have so many good players and especially in the wing areas they have more than enough coverage to really account for the absence of Bailey and they have been doing so you know but I've been on record saying from even when Kimoni Bailey was catching the eyes of everyone else I'm not saying that he wasn't playing well of course he was playing brilliantly but I do think that Devante Campbell was the standout player for me and he's continued to be so I think even in the example that we saw in the Harbour View game where he was a catalyst for Mount Pleasant coming from behind and you know he got that trial at Charlton as well so I do think that Devante Campbell has been probably a top three player in the league this season and when it comes on to Mount Pleasant he's just been fantastic but in terms of Kimoni Bailey you know they've had the luxury of giving him his time to come back and ease his way into the squad they've changed up a few things tactically as well and they've brought in some more players we're seeing now um Uvrey or Auvrey from Trinidad and Tobago he has come in he's one of the most deceptive 1v1 players in the league now as well Green who they have brought back into the fold can play an either flank as well so they really I don't think they're short of attacking quality so I think Kimoni Bailey's role in this squad will really be to give that extra energy when they're getting into the playoff time I'm not sure how much of an impact you'll have in this game in particular. Let me ask you this, say what it comes in as much on a winning streak of four straight games they win 70 percent of their away games but Mount Pleasant wins 70 percent of their home games who has the advantage in terms of those stats that we just gave you? Well I mean based on the stats that you gave I guess you can say that there's no advantage for a say but I do think that this game is extremely tight nonetheless both of these teams are playing the two best brands of football in the league so far this season for sure um I think they've been the two most consistent teams apart from you know Cavalier and Portmore have been really good as well both at 11 games without having a loss so I can't discount them but for for the high test and even going after results as well I do think that Mount Pleasant and Tivoli have been extremely impressive this season and they're obviously up there with the favorites so I think this game is going to be extremely tight especially in the midfield areas even though these two teams are experts at scoring we saw what happened in the first game whereas only decided by one goal so I think that shows how important the midfield battle is going to be in this one and how important substitutes may be as well so yeah really really tight game I'm expecting. Yeah you know what you just referenced the first match between them as well but that game happened at a time when Mount Pleasant had started the season with a six game winning streak and hardly gave up goals I think they had given up just one goal in their first six matches but if you look at their recent form they're giving up goals a lot more now and Tivoli have improved I'm saying that to say that if I analyze it that way Tivoli may have the edge going in because Tivoli I think is better now than they were in November and Mount Pleasant were looking better in November than they are looking now. Statistically at least. Okay statistically I would say yes in terms of a Mount Pleasant point. Tivoli are 100% better now than they were because coach Wait has been working with these players and you know it's the same players plus he's brought in some of his older players from the Inet days and they've had a huge impact we saw what Steve Clark did especially so I think this Tivoli team is getting better and better but although Mount Pleasant you know maybe to the statistical eye they won't seem like they're improving but they've made some tweaks especially tactical and I do think that it's going to serve them even better as the season winds down you know where they've even more gone into the continental style of things and I mentioned the Vante Cambo and especially Avery as well their new system well I don't want to say it's new because they've been doing shades of this for quite some time but what they do now is isolate their wingers much more because of the the interior ability and quality that they have were especially seen even their deeper players maybe at the Mario Phillips drop in deeper we've seen Daniel greening those interior areas getting on the ball much more so and then at the end of it I said that they have probably the two deadliest 1v1 players in the league so if you're going to continue to isolate those players and not to mention that Devante Cambo who I think is this good was absent from the team for some time for his trial at Charlton so I'm saying all of this to say is I think that Mount Pleasant are still the best team in the league despite being a pointer two off the top and I think as we go into the playoff you know places and the push towards the playoff time they'll even start to show even more how good they are just like they did last year. The best interject here for a second then remember in November it was when Wade came in just came in in November so he had another chance to imprint his own yeah well it took time took time on the team yet so you know that one little win might have been like a false down in sense of where Mount Pleasant could be in terms of your matchup against Tivoli yeah but you know that he's had a few months under his belt maybe a different that. Well you can see that the Tivoli team is now warming under Jerome Wade's guidance move quickly Caldwee Lige to the waterhouse Arnett Clash because that's another big clash they're disappointing waterhouse they haven't had back-to-back wins in the league since late October going into November they win they draw they lose they they are not developing any consistency with you know with back-to-back wins or a winning streak which is very uncharacteristic for waterhouse whether they are league leaders or top two or top three they usually have seasons where at least for a period they're showing some steadiness but given their up-and-down form you would have to take Arnett to beat them then yeah I wouldn't be surprised if Arnett went to waterhouse and got the result but that's also very close on because if you look at Arnett's results usually when they come up against the other top six teams they tend to lose and they tend to struggle apart from a couple of you know false results may come down to because they did well against Mount Pleasant I believe earlier in the season so this Arnett team is still very young still very inconsistent as well but to your point yes waterhouse have been extremely inconsistent this season and they're caught up in a battle now with I think them Mobile United and you know some other teams number holding as well in and around to get that sixth part and that's going to be extremely tight I think that might be even more entertaining as it usually is actually than to get the top two race and yeah I think yeah that's going to be a close game Mobile United I think so far especially the past couple of weeks they've been looked the strongest coming up so I wouldn't be surprised if they're squeezing number holding extremely inconsistent as well so all three teams I think have the quality to get into the top six is just what Arnett is going to hit for him at this pivotal time right now a quick comment on Humberland Andrew Price lost the job as the coach of Humberland having lost four of nine matches Vaso Reynolds took over he has no lost six of nine um what's happening at Humberland well from what we saw I've seen enough of Vaso Reynolds coaching to know that this isn't necessarily a problem of his because I've seen him be able to set up a defense to a really top top standard in schoolboy football and in the league as well yes but I have to say that the standard of defending that we've seen since he's taken over has been absolutely deplorable I'm not going to you know beat around my words it's been really bad but it has to be said that he came in midseason probably hasn't gotten the players that he has wanted but then again you have to question it because this Humberland team historically has been so good defensively so what has caused the struggle of first Andrew Price and then Vaso Reynolds to not be able to eke out that defensive quality already grip that they usually have so you know it's a sticky one I'm not going to beat a coach that I know is a quality one but I think defensively is the reason why they haven't improved so far under Vaso Reynolds and maybe once he has a summer more players to bring in then we'll see an improvement there okay well let's see what happens there the Ray and Neville Jamaica are primarily continuing this weekend and lots of the action coming up on Sportsmax on Sunday evening including that big match at Drax Hall between Mont Pleasant and Tivoli you can't miss it we go to break we'll be back with more on the zone after this