2 first-half strikes sufficed for Buriram United to declare their 5th straight Thai League 1 success last night when they beat Chonburi 2-0 to keep their nine-point lead.
With 10 more matches to play, the Thunder Castle are now odds-on favourites to hang on to the top-flight prize for another year.
Buriram were put ahead in the 14th minute by their respected Brazilian forward Diogo Luis Santo and kept a company grip on the match quickly prior to the breather when Jakkraphan Kaewprom doubled the margin.
Flying Force Central, who till a week earlier had actually been on an 11-game losing streak, produced another outstanding program to continue their healing in the league.
The league cellar-dwellers were anticipated to lose greatly at fourth-placed PT Prachuap last night however they amazed everybody with a 1-1 draw, which began the heels of a shock 3-2 success over third-placed Port recently.
Flying Force were on course for another upset win however were rejected by an injury-time charge which Prachuap’s Jonatan Reis transformed to counteract a 53rd-minute objective by Pinyo Inpinit.
Reis made the area kick when he was fouled by Flying force’s Aleksandar Kapisoda inside package to assist Prachuap get away a dip to 5th location in the table.
In Sattahip, Navy returned from 2 objectives to share a point with Ratchaburi last night.
Mark Hartmann and Nerijus Valskis netted for Ratchaburi in the 33rd and 54th minutes however Navy reacted with 2 objectives of their own through Amadou Ouattara (61st) and Herlison Ferreira (68th).
Pattaya United leapt up 2 locations to ninth following a 2-1 away win over Suphanburi last night.
Lukian Almeida and Carlos Silva scored for Pattaya in the very first half while Cleiton Silva netted Suphanburi’s only objective on the hour mark.
