Tanjong Pagar United head into this match following a 1-1 S League stalemate against Young Lions.
The only player to score from Tanjong Pagar United was Salif Cissé (45').
Matches featuring Tanjong Pagar United have often been lively encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, a grand total of 21 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 6 of these belonging to Tanjong Pagar United.
Since being beaten in their last game against Geylang International in S League competition, Lion City Sailors will be aiming to make amends here.
The only player to score from Lion City Sailors was Lennart Thy (33').
Illustrating their bias toward eventful encounters, goals have been scored 21 times in the previous 6 games in which Lion City Sailors have played, making it a mean average of 3.5 goals each fixture. Opposition teams have hit 5 of these goals. That trend might not be continued into this match, though.
Looking over their past head to head results going back to 24/02/2023 reveals that these fixtures have been disappointments for Tanjong Pagar United. They have not managed to get any wins at all while Lion City Sailors have been too good for them, beating them in 100 per cent of those ties.
There were also goals galore in those games, with 31 overall at an average of 5.17 goals per match.
The last league encounter between these sides was S League match day 25 on 09/02/2025 when it finished Lion City Sailors 4-1 Tanjong Pagar United.
Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the sole fitness concern for the Tanjong Pagar United gaffer to be concerned about from a near full-strength group. Shodai Nishikawa (surgery) misses out.
It looks to us that Lion City Sailors look set to have the opportunity for a goalfest against Tanjong Pagar United, who could well find it tough to find the back of the net at all.
Could be in for a big scoreline here.
Accordingly, we see an extremely comfortable 0-3 winning score at least for Lion City Sailors at full-time.