Happy Valley team manager Leung Sui-wing has warned his players to take their Ericsson League match against bottom side Five-One-Seven tonight seriously.
The match at Mongkok Stadium is also the farewell match for Leung, who has spent 22 years with Valley and retired as player last season.
Leung, 40, said his players should remember this was a 'real league match' instead of a farewell game.
'It's a league match and it's important to us. We need the three points to get closer to Instant-Dict. We are five points behind them,' said Leung, a former Hong Kong national sweeper.
'We have not played against Five-One-Seven this season. They beat Instant-Dict in the Senior Challenge Shield and we can't take them lightly.' Valley were thrashed 5-1 by a Macau Select in an exhibition on Taipa Island last Saturday but their English defenders Shaun Teale and Martin Kuhl, goalkeeper Peter Guthrie and forward Paul Wood were absent because of the Carlsberg Cup.
Their new English signing, Craig Maskell, will not play tonight as he is still to pass the fitness test on Saturday.
