DEFENDING Elite League champions Guyana Defence Force (GDF) put on a show to clinch an important win, while Slingerz Football Club on Sunday again brought out their A-game to maintain their unbeaten record in the 2025 edition of the Guyana Football Federation Elite League season at the Leonora National Stadium.
Den Amstel’s difficult run in the Elite League continued as they suffered their 8th loss this season 4-2.
They went down to GDF in the feature clash at the weekend.

The defending champions went ahead in the 38th minute of the contest off of a Stephen Mcdonald strike before Den Amstel’s Delon Lanferman equalised three minutes later as they went into the break one goal apiece.

A second-half double from Trayon Bobb coming within eight minutes of each other in the 50th and 58th minutes gave the soldiers the advantage 2-1.
Abumchi Opara would add to that making it 4-1 in the 69th minute as the soldiers started to strut their offensive prowess.

Den Amstel‘s Deon Alfred got on to the score sheet in the 87th minute but that proved his only intervention as they succumbed to a 4-2 defeat.
In the other clash, Slingerz who hold the sway at the top of the league table after picking up their 11th win when they clashed with Essequibo’s Mainstay Gold Star.
It was their most one-sided win of the season as they demolished their new opponents who is a novice team in the league this year.

Mainstay’s woes continued as they found the going tough unable to get into the back of the net instead going down 2-0 to Slingerz. Slingerz new recruit Jean-Heim McFree showed his chops to record a fiver.

McFree had good support from Kemar Beckford and Bryan Wharton with both registering hat-tricks.

Derron Niles, Romaine Brackenridge and Derrel Garcia contributed with doubles with Job Caesar, Daniel Ross and Solomon Austin getting solitary goals.
On the table behind Slingerz at the top is the Guyana Police Force on eight wins with three draws and a loss with Western Tigers third. Guyana Defence Force are fourth with Santos.