Sheriff Tiraspol is coming closer to the top position in the national football championship. In the eighteenth National Division stage, Moldova's champion defeated Academia UTM Chisinau by 1-0 on November 10, Info-Prim Neo reports. It was the sixth victory in a row for the Tiraspol team. Sheriff scored the victory goal in the middle of the second half through Serbia's Vladimir Brankovic. Sheriff's line-up did not include the African players Benjamin Balima, Florent Rouamba and Abdul-Gafar Mamah as they were called to their national teams. Sheriff has scored 37 points and is third in the rankings, five points away from the leader, Dacia Chisinau. But it played by three matches fewer. On November 18, the two teams will meet in the derby of the first part of the championship, Info-Prim Neo reports.