📏 Form Guide

Young Lions

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Young Lions won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 3-1 S League loss in their previous game against Lion City Sailors.

Bart Ramselaar (13') and Maxime Lestienne (77') scored for Lion City Sailors.

Fixtures with Young Lions have often been absorbing affairs of late with plenty of scoring anticipated. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 26 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.33 goals per game) with 6 of those being chalked up by Young Lions.

Balestier Khalsa

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Balestier Khalsa will go into this game following on from a 2-1 S League win in the defeat of Hougang United in their previous outing.

The only name on the scoresheet from Balestier Khalsa was Anton Fase (10').

Balestier Khalsa have been dangerous up front in their most recent fixtures, scoring 13 goals in their previous 6 matches. While their manager Khidhir Khamis will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Balestier Khalsa can also improve defensively after being scored against in 6 of those same outings. While that may be of interest, time will tell whether that pattern might be replicated here in this game.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 04/03/2023 tells us that Young Lions have won 1 of them and Balestier Khalsa 5, with the number of drawn results being 0.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 33 overall which averages out at 5.5 goals per meeting.

The previous league clash between the two was S League match day 24 on 25/01/2025 when it ended Balestier Khalsa 2-3 Young Lions.

ℹ️ Team News: Young Lions

Ryaan Sanizal (Ankle injury), Nur Adam Abdullah (Shoulder injury), Danish Qayyum (unknown injury) and Raoul Suhaimi (unknown injury) won’t be available for Young Lions manager Fandi Ahmad.

📋 Team News: Balestier Khalsa

From a largely full-strength group, there’s just a single fitness issue for the Balestier Khalsa boss Khidhir Khamis to be concerned about. Sheikh Faris (unknown injury) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

Our feeling is that Balestier Khalsa should convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Young Lions might well find it difficult scoring goals of their own but we do fancy them pulling one back during this clash, too.

We’re predicting a fairly comfortable 1-3 winning margin for Balestier Khalsa when the referee blows the final whistle.

Peter Guest, 09:01 03/05/2025