 Changing focus to football now on the Sportsmax zone. Match week 7 gets underway this weekend and these are the fixtures. So we have Lime Hall playing Bear United, Donby Holden up against Malines United, Montego Bear United play multi-pleasant waterhouse face humble lion, Portmore will be seeing Tivoli Gardens. Well, with us this afternoon to give a rundown of the season so far and preview the fixtures is our in-house football analyst Ligea Williams. Good afternoon Ligea, welcome to the set. Good afternoon, lovely to be here as per usual. Alright, so I'll start by questioning you so you'll have an easy start. Let's talk about the weekend and which of the matches are we to look forward to. I just had on the screen the exciting match-ups, which one you think will be the most exciting of them all? Well for me I think, well at least I think the match-up that I'm looking forward to the most would be on Monday, the Portmore United versus Tivoli. I think both of these teams are looking likely or one of the likely bunch to try and get to the top of the mountain in terms of the bunch that are chasing Mount Pleasant. So I think Portmore, they won the link-up last year, they had flashes, they didn't make the players but they had flashes, they've retained a few of their players, yes the last players like Lamar Walker but I think that they've recruited well, replaced them well with Martin Davis and I do think that they have the makings and the coaching teams have a really good team so they're a team I'm really looking forward to this season and Tivoli guidance, I can't heap enough praise on them and Jerome White, I think the job that he has done so far in terms of the difference in stylistic play that they have changed in addition to the quality, they're basically the same squad from last season, I think it's really brilliant what he's doing over there. So that's how much I'm definitely looking forward to this weekend. Yeah, I want you to talk to us a little bit about Martin Davis because I remember him as a youth player with so much promise and so much expected of him, had a stint in Spain as well during his youth days, saw him on Wednesday I think it was with a beautiful play getting the ball to the byline and getting the cross inside which resulted in a goal. Your own thoughts on his overall development and what he's brought to this Portmore United setup? Well I mean his development you know unfortunately he didn't or so far he hasn't reached the heights that his talent I think would meet, like his talent you'd expect him to get so much further than he's gone so far but with that being said I still think that he's played in some good places to develop his career, you mentioned Spain when he was in Europe otherwise apart from that and he's a really talented footballer that's something that's never going to fade in my opinion and I think he brings a lot especially I mentioned the fact that the last Lamar Walker, Lamar Walker if we cast our minds back to the link up final he was the man of the match at that game, he was really good dictating things from deep but also being really penetrative in an attacking sense, Martin Davis I don't think he's going to give them that deep build-up threat but in terms of being penetrative attacking wise there are very few players I think that Portmore could have brought in to approximate what Lamar Walker could do and I think that this Portmore setup with how they play with three narrow forwards he's going to be really close to Chevron Walsh really close to Alex Marshall players that have a similar level of talent to him I think that's going to do his form in the Jamaican Premier League a world of good. Yeah well Tivoli lost to Mont Pleasant yesterday they would not feel too hard done by that result because Mont Pleasant has been on fire this season what would they need to do differently from that loss in order to ensure that they pick up all points on the weekend? I think it's tough to to criticize them over the last that they would lose against Mont Pleasant because as you mentioned Mont Pleasant have been flying they're the best team in the country so far by a really a landslide so Tivoli they are an emerging team I think that by time if health permitting no injuries permitting I think if Tivoli were to continue on this trajectory there is no doubt in my mind there are semi-finals team at minimum with just the squad that they have and I'm hearing that they have players to come in changes to be made but just development of the coaching the familiarity of what they're trying to do what their coaches trying to do as well I think that Tivoli just need to continue going rolling with the punches and I think generally they'll get better and better and then over time their project will go boom as as my guffar said Miquel Ariteta but I do think that Tivoli have the squad they have the capabilities and I do think that they'll get better but in relation to this Portmore game Tivoli versus Portmore I'm sure Ricardo especially would know when I was growing up in probably mid-2000s that when you're still growing up by the way go ahead what I was growing up but I was around six seven eight because I know Ricardo is an old boy but as a young man myself when I was growing up I was going to prison over I was going to national stadium I was going to Ferdinita Park I was going to Edward Seattle Sports Campus because this was the game that so often the end around finals the JP the at the time that well it's right now I guess I can say it during every Premier League finals this game was so important in the grand scheme of things so this is one those games where it's like a L classical I know that there's a actual a classical Arnett and Waterhouse but to me this is a significance that it would play Arnett Waterhouse is a L classical this is the Milan Derby how big of a game it is this is not a game that will lose its prestige so I'm looking forward to a really tight encounter no matter what the talent levels made the form of the teams this game is always going to be an exciting one and I'm definitely looking forward to that's why it's my matchup of the weekend yeah I want your assessment of Tivoli Gardens under Jerome Waite in comparison to the Tivoli teams the Tivoli setups that we have seen in more recent seasons well I think it's just there the profile of players that were within the squad just fit Jerome Waite perfectly and it's not something that I saw what as soon as I saw Jerome Waite get a point I'm like yes this project is going to be really good but now when I watch them play I realize that what he is trying to accomplish and the position that he has the players in it's perfect for them so for instance Penny Cook he has him playing yes he's playing in the back three also but in terms of what he he try he pushes him up into midfield similar to what we see with John Stones and Manchester City so and his engine allows him to do that Howard Morris playing him just off of the strike at the tip of a midfield three diamond that works out brilliantly and then you talk about Justin Dunn six goals in the Premier League this season he was playing right wing back at times last year and now he's playing in a pseudo right wing sometimes a lot of rotation in their front three so he will be pick up striking positions you see making penetrative runs from deep that's what he's really good at and his finishing ability so I think what Jermu it identified immediately is a type of profile that he has in the squad and he has built a system around them perfectly and this team is really flying and that's why I said I have a lot of confidence in them not only I don't think it's just a flash in the pan I think that when the season is over this team if injuries injuries with standing this team should be minimum in the semifinals just based off their talent level the level of their coaching and just their application in games as well so this is a real this is a team that I'm really excited about going forward yeah has Jerome found a statistician yet no not as yet but is he still doing the stats from the stands no he's gone back maybe maybe he was just putting it out there for anyone who wants to join I personally can't do it why I know that you wouldn't want me to leave sports max personally let you go on alone alone alone deal a season long deal you couldn't do you couldn't build out me for salaguer card could it do it I think you all to have your bromance on that side and I'm just in my little corner but I don't want to ask you though about my lines United yeah they have not got a win this entire season they played down beholden on the weekend are we expecting the results to of course change these are two teams that I think are really similar actually I'm two teams at one to play attacking football have good attacking players yes but defensively they just haven't been showing out this season especially more lines from last season actually they're one of the worst defenses in the Premier League and Alex Thomas is a coach that I really respect I think that he's a really good manager he has quality players at his disposal as well but I'm just not defensively just has not been clicking they were always liable to collect as my friends would say collect a bargain at certain points of last season so I might give them five they collect a lot of big scores as well I just think defensively their application isn't good enough most of the time and I think they need to work on that they haven't worked on that coming into this season with terms of number holding although I do think that number holding are struggling right now I think they're going to get better they have one of the best coaches in the island for goodness sake in Lenny Hyde and they have quality players as well so I think they'll get better but more lines United I think they have to button down hatches and try see if they can get a result this weekend because if they're not going to get it this weekend pressure will just continue to build and build and build and the last thing I would want is someone like Alex Thomas a young good coach like that to get sucked and then more lines has to reset and then who knows even fall into a relegation scrap like they're in right now so I think I need to start getting some results going dumbo holding I think around a less pressure let's see how they perform this weekend. Yeah we spoke about it at the top of the show Montego Bay United Mount Pleasant that game originally scheduled for 7 30 p.m. on Monday at the Montego Bay Sports Complex at Catherine all however renovations taking place at that venue and the match time had to be changed now Montego Bay United wanted the match to be played on Sunday at 3 p.m. at West Pole Park understandably so because Sunday at 3 p.m. would be a better time for fans to come out and support however the match remains on Monday it will be played at 3 p.m. at West Pole Park and a large part of the reason for that there are no lights at West Pole Park so it has to be a day game the management of Montego Bay United have come out to say they are disappointed that the request to have the game played on Sunday was not granted and as I said at the top of the show it seems like a no-brainer from the Montego Bay United standpoint but there is also another standpoint to be considered and that is the Mon Pleasant standpoint because Mon Pleasant would have planned and prepared for a game on Monday and I think the rules are pretty clear that to have a change in a situation like this then you need both teams to submit the request and you need both teams to agree in this case I suspect that Mon Pleasant would not have agreed understandably so from their standpoint because if you are preparing for a Monday game and all of a sudden a few days before you hear that it's going to be on Sunday that's not something you would necessarily agree with I don't know Leje if that makes this contest or adds some amount of intensity to this contest on Monday the developments leading in yeah I think it may especially there's going to be no fans less people to to view so maybe the mobile people are saying okay let's just go out and be physical as we made the crowd isn't going to get on top of us so be the case but Montego Bay 90 they've been struggling again this season they've brought in some players of Brazilian heritage to go along with their Brazilian coach but it hasn't quite gone too well for them then they had a really good game over the weekend home ball and again against home ball and it was a close game but this Mon Pleasant unit they're playing some liquid stuff right now they have easily the best squad and paper I'm talking about now on their defense we see how their attack is going with Kimoni Bailey Devante Campbell across a chunk but I'm a midfield man yeah I'm an engine room man so when I see a midfield three coming to against a team and that midfield three is got three Demario Phillips and then on top of that they're going to add Ramon Howell one of the another one of the best midfielders in the league that midfield alone is a title winning midfield so good luck to the rest of the JPL but you're going to have a warm time de-throning Mon Pleasant this season yeah very much the case and quickly I want you to talk about Kimoni Bailey who has been in fantastic form four goals in five matches this campaign what has led to this success that we didn't see for example when he was at Dunbeholden you said quickly so I'm not going to get too much into it but tactically there is a shift in terms of when you think about Trivante's stewards it's similar to what you see take Man City for example early in Holland everything is funneled into him as a target man but when they're playing with a false nine you see the wingers getting more involved you had Sterling scoring 20 at goals when it's a more nimble striker like Acosta Chong is there's going to be more help on the wing more there's a lot more facets to the attack and I think that's what causing the wingers to get more involved it's not only Kimoni Bailey who has been fantastic this season but the Vante Camel and the left I think has been just as good just hasn't scored as many goals he has his assists however but yeah I think because of the the shift in type of striker that they're using that's what causing the wingers to really explode this season so far yeah and quickly again even quicker than the last time we show that graphic at the top of the segment with only five matches scheduled for this round there are a few teams who will not be involved yeah Cavalier Cavalier will be taking part of course in the Cavalier and Harbourview will be taking part in the Caribbean Cup Harbourview of their third place matches Cavalier of the final coming up is a two-legged affair so good luck to both of those teams I would love to see Cavalier bring it home because they have been absolutely fantastic in that tournament Shanieel Thomas the top scorer so hopefully they can bring on the trophy for Jamaica yeah DJ Williams thank you very much for joining us on the sportsman zone with your expert analysis and we'll discuss that one-year loan deal let's take a break