Kyle Lightbourne, the Robin Hood coach, admits his team will have their work cut out when they face Dandy Town Hornets in a Premier Division make-up match tonight at Goose Gosling Field.

Hornets enter the contest as the favourites having already defeated Hood 2-1 in the Dudley Eve Trophy last month.

“Town are one of the favourites to win the league so we are going to have to be at our best to beat them,” Lightbourne said.

Lightbourne’s charges will look to avenge last month’s loss to Hornets, the two-times Dudley Eve Trophy defending champions, and make a positive start to their league campaign.

“We have come close a couple of times to beating them and now is the time for us to get our league campaign off on the right foot,” Lightbourne added.

“Hopefully we get something out of the game. It’s a little frustrating that we haven’t played since we last faced them. I expect both teams to be a little stale.”

Tonight’s match was originally scheduled for September 26, but was postponed because of heavy rain.

Hood and Hornets were the two teams to advance to the Dudley Eve Trophy semi-finals after last week’s drawing of lots at the Clyde Best Centre of Excellence.

Hood, Hornets and Devonshire Cougars finished the group stage level on three points with identical goal difference and also the same goals scored and conceded.

Hood, the group B winners, will face Somerset Trojans while Hornets take on PHC Zebras, the group A winners, in a semi-final double-header on November 1 at Lord’s.

“There was no easy way [to decide the qualifying teams] and fortunately we got the luck of the draw,” Lightbourne said.

“We were certainly lucky and hopefully that luck will continue.”

Tonight’s match starts at 9pm.

n Aaliya Nolan, the Bermuda women’s striker, scored one goal and created three others as Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas, thrashed Northeastern Texas 6-1 at the weekend.

It was Nolan’s first game back for Navarro College after a four-week absence because of injury.