Terengganu perfect home record in the Super League ended last night after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Kelantan at the Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium, Kuala Terengganu.
In front of an almost capacity crowd, Terengganu found themselves trailing after Mohamad Shawky capitalised on hesitant defending by the home side to opened the scoring after sixteen minute.
The Turtles drew level in the 36th minute when Zairo Anuar Zailani blasted home his trade-mark freekick past Khairul Fahmi Che Mat in the Kelantan's goal.
The result saw Terengganu relinquishing their lead to Pahang after Zainal Abidin Hassan's men easily saw off Perak at the Darul Makmur Stadium.
Dickson Nwakaeme put The Elephants ahead just after ten minutes before Gopinathan Ramachandra increased it to 2-0 nine minutes before the break.
Selangor missed the chance to be level with Pahang at the top after they were held to a 2-2 draw by PKNS FC despite the visitors had to play with ten men after Nazmi Faiz's dismissal in the 67th minute.
The score at the time was 1-1 after The Red Giants had gone ahead courtesy of an own goal by Helmi Remeli in the 18th minute. His team-mate, Aminudin Mohamad Noor however put his side level again four minutes later.
Despite being down to ten men, PKNS FC regained their lead in the 72nd minute with Aminuddin second of the match. However, the lead did not last long when Selangor equalised through Afiq Azmi two minutes later.
Johor Darul Takzim (JDT) inconsistencies emerged again after being held to a 1-1 draw at home by Sarawak.
The home side lost goalkeeper, Izham Tarmizi Roslan to an injury and he was replaced by Norazlan Razali. The substitute custodian could do anything eight minutes later when Chanturu's effort gave him no chance.
However the lead did not last long when Luciano Figueroa struck in the 28th minute to level things up. Despite their best effort, JDT once again failed to get all three points at home.
A fighting display by T-Team Titans earned them a point against defending champions, Lions XII at the Jalan Besar Stadium. This was against the backdrop of losing two of their central defenders.
Brazilian Fabio Flor had to be taken off just after four minutes and Marzuki Yusof came in his place. However Marzuki too was taken off during half-time and The Titans played the whole second half with a makeshift defence.
Mohamad Safuwan gave the capacity crowd something to cheer when he found the net in the 24th minute. However, tried as they might the home side could not add to the tally and they were made to pay when Nelson Marcelo curled in a wonderful free-kick in the 63rd minute.
It brought the score to 1-1 and it stayed that way until the final whistle.
The Armed Forces (ATM) which are now struggling at the foot of the table twice went ahead during their match against Sime Darby FC at the Selayang Municipal Stadium.
Bruno Martelotto put them ahead from the penalty spot in the eleventh minute only for Muhammad Arif to equalise for the home side just around the half hour mark.
ATM went ahead again through Juan Manuel Arostegui nine minutes into the second half but five minutes later the score was level again when William Mensah found the net.
Mahmoud Al Amna then emerged as the hero for Sime Darby when he scored what turned out to be the winning goal in the 65th minute.
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