Sports results: Tarxien Rainbows and Piast Gliwice secure key victories

In the Malta Challenge League, Tarxien Rainbows maintained a perfect record with their fifth consecutive victory, defeating Sirens 2-1 at the Victor Tedesco Stadium. After Jean Borg opened the scoring for Sirens, Ben Gaerty equalized for Tarxien, and Jesus Jimenez Perez secured the win with a long-range goal in the final ten minutes.

Fgura United also secured a 2-1 win against Gudja United, overcoming an early goal by Jamie Carbone to return to winning ways.

In the UEFA Futsal Champions League main round, Piast Gliwice advanced to the round of 16 after a 5-0 victory over Araz Naxçivan. The Polish champions finished Group 5 unbeaten with seven points.

Kauno Žalgiris also secured a place in the round of 16 for the first time in club history. The Lithuanian champions topped Group 6 following a 7-4 win against Differdange 03, finishing the mini-tournament unbeaten.