Tampines will push for SPL title all the way: Coach Lee

Things change quickly in football and Singapore Premier League (SPL) side BG Tampines Rovers know this all too well.

- Deepanraj Ganesan

Back in July, the Stags made a bold statement in the title race, thumping the Lion City Sailors 5-0 on their home ground at Bishan Stadium to go top of the table, three points clear of the Sailors.

Fast forward three months and the tables have turned. Tampines now find themselves six points behind the Sailors and struggling through a tough patch, winless in their last six league games.

On Oct 29, the Stags take on Geylang International in the Eastern Derby at the Jalan Besar Stadium, hoping to keep their title ambitions alive and prevent their rivals, two points behind, from leapfrogging them into second place in the table.

Tampines coach Gavin Lee will have something up his sleeve to halt the slide, telling The Straits Times that there are "a few things that need to be better that we aren't going to share publicly", but admitted his team needed to be more decisive at both ends.

Lee, 34, who took charge of the Stags in 2019, said: "We're well aware of our recent results in the league and it has definitely not helped us in our journey this season. We have evaluated and want to improve things we feel that have let us down a little bit.