St Georges captain Damion Harwood.- File

Leaders St Georges Sports Club will take their surprise act on the road to Collie Smith Drive, looking to topple a Boys' Town team hell-bent on repairing its early season stuttering in the Digicel Premier League. Match time is 3:30 p.m.

The relatively young Premier League outfit from Portland has made steady, yet quiet progress to the top of the standings on 14 points, following an unbeaten six-match sequence that includes four wins.

New coach Braxton Hyre has moulded the fourth-season club into a a very efficient unit, scoring eight goals while conceding only one, mirroring a nice balance at either end of the pitch.

Long-time ace striker, Damion 'Boy Boy' Harwood, is once again the man chiefly responsible for the goals, while their defence has been strengthened with the addition of national centre half, Jermaine Taylor.

surprise defeat

They have generally displayed good form on the road and even last season, they played Boys' Town tough at Collie Smith Drive despite losing.

Andrew Price's team, which opened up with four consecutive draws, skidded to a surprise defeat at debutants Humble Lions one week, then rebounded the next to beat champions Tivoli Gardens 2-0 at Tivoli's home turf.

Such inconsistencies tell the nature of this Boys' Town team. It also speaks to the talent they possess - good enough to knock off top-of-the-shelf opposition when they are at their best, as Tivoli had racked up 11 goals in their five previous matches.

That victory last week is certain to improve the drive and enthusiasm at Boys' Town, who, like St Georges, hardly waste an opportunity to maximise points on their home ground.

The Red Brigade's major bugbear this season has been scoring. Counting last week's two at Tivoli, they have only tallied four in six matches, which is a big reason why they are in seventh with as many points. They have only conceded three goals.

Two other teams have similar concessions, Trelawny's Village United and Clarendon's Sporting Central Academy. Both have very tough assignments against the teams that finished one-two last season.

Village have crafted five draws and a win to be sixth on eight points. They have scored four times and cannot be discounted, though going up against the champions.

As they were stung last week, it might not be the best time for Cassman Williams' side to be facing a Tivoli team that is powerful offensively, mainly through the quality and character of strikers Roland Dean, Navion Boyd and Keammar Daley, who always appear hungry to hit the net.

They have already done so 11 times and should pose serious difficulties for Village, who also have quality and real scoring threat in former national striker, the busy Teofore Bennett.

decently positioned

Another team with problems hitting the target are Portmore United. Despite having a plethora of talent, including Roen Nelson, Kevin Deerr, Wolry Wolfe and his brother, Kemeel, the Sunshine City team has not yet set the place alight.

Despite that, they are still decently positioned at fourth on nine points, just five off the leaders and promise to make life hard for Sporting Central Academy.

The fact that Sporting's coach Donovan Duckie once held the reins at Portmore, is sure to add intrigue to the contest and the extra bit of motivation might be just what the Clarendon team really needs to get over the hurdle.

It must be noted though that Sporting are playing exceptionally well, a nice passing game complimented by good skill, which has been creating a fair amount of scoring chances.

Portmore also have a nice passing game and this sets the stage for what should be a real showpiece.

Third-place Harbour View have always found Spanish Town Prison Oval to be a happy hunting ground, winning against Rivoli on just about every occasion they have ventured to the St Catherine capital.

winning record After accumulating drawn results in the first three matches, Harbour View have changed that trend to gain the maximum in the next three and are quite capable of extending that sequence as their strikers, including Kemar Petrekin and Rafeik Thomas, have scored lately.

Given the law of averages though, third-place Harbour View's winning record in Spanish Town will end one day and Bradley Stewart will be hoping this is the day, especially with leading marksman Devon Hodges hitting the target once in recent matches. The match should be close.

Pressure will bursting at the lid in the other confrontations, with traditional giants Arnett Gardens and Waterhouse, as well as August Town, feeling most of the burden for failure to produce more than three points in six matches.