Jersey's squad named for Muratti semi in Alderney

Jon Welsh is manager of Jersey's senior team

A squad of 20 players has been named to train for the Muratti semi-final, when Jersey make the trip to Alderney later this month.

Manager Jon Welsh has included one new name - central striker Cliff Silva from the Portuguese Club.

"Jersey aren't scoring many at the moment but he is," Welsh told the BBC.

The semi-final is on Saturday, 20 March, with the final against Guernsey now scheduled for Saturday, 8 May at Springfield Stadium.

Nine players from St Paul's are named; Stuart Andre, Scott Devlin, Jack Cannon, Dave Watson, Luke Watson, Mark Lucas, John Paul Martyn, Craig Leitch and Ross Crick.

With goalkeeper Andrew Bird out for the season, Trinity's Jimmy Styles and Craig Fletcher from Jersey Scottish are both included.

The other selected players are James Scott, Paul Aitken, Dave Le Roux, Chris Andrews and Jamie Savoury, Joel Speight, Sean Heslop, Neal Crowell and newcomer Cliff Silva from the Portuguese Club.

Two other Grouville players, Bradley Russell and Garry Lloyd, were both selected but are unavailable for the match.

Providing Jersey get past Alderney, they will play Guernsey in the Muratti final on 8 May with a 1400 GMT kick-off.