Technical has a bye this week so can sit back and watch as Caversham has a chance to move ahead, albeit by playing a game more than coach Mike Fridge's side.
Both Technical and Caversham have played seven matches and a win for Caversham over Mosgiel at Tonga Park on Saturday could see Richard Murray's side nose one point ahead at the top.
Unbeaten this season, Caversham has produced a scoring rate of three goals per match, 21 in seven FPL matches, and that tally has been well spread throughout a broad attack.
Keeper Liam Little has also been well protected, having had to pick only four goals out of his net, as the mobile Caversham team pressure limits opposition scoring chances.
Opponent Mosgiel has faded from an impressive start, to a bleak five-match run without a win, and coach Mike McGarry may have to try to recapture the firepower that thumped Queenstown 7-1 in the first game of the season.
Since then, single-goal margins have damaged the Plainsmen, and with McGarry himself playing, plus striker Phil Kelly and centreback Nathan Forbes, the team's average age has soared.
At the Caledonian Ground, University will flex its collective muscle against Northern, which has earned good results against Technical, Mosgiel and Grants Braes.
However, the Magpies also shipped 12 goals in two matches against Roslyn and Caversham, so it depends on which Northern team shows up on the day.
University is playing cavalier, incisive football, with pace and power that delighted spectators last week against Roslyn, and as the students' confidence grows, so does their attacking flair.
The downside for Brazilian coach Luiz Uehara is a defence that has leaked goals to produce a paltry goal difference of one, compared with Caversham's 17.
Roslyn-Wakari faces a difficult away fixture in Queenstown, where goalkeeper-coach Steve Henderson is developing ever stiffer resistance.
Queenstown's foreign legionnaires even extend to the women's team, which last week fielded an international brigade from Canada (three) and a bunch of Scots, Irish and English players, who tested Technical's women before losing the national knockout cup clash 2-0, at Culling Park.
Henderson's Rovers side has only won one game this season, but even that was a flamboyant nine-goal thriller, in which Grants Braes scored twice.
Roslyn has only lost one game this season, and may have improved its firepower with the return of James Govan and Aajay Cunningham.
Much will depend on the level of discipline that both sides maintain.
Fresh from a 5-1 home win over Queenstown last week, Green Island will be keen to kick on at Ocean Grove.
However, bottom-placed Grants Braes almost created a major upset last week when the game with FPL leader Technical was tied 3-3 before Aaron Burgess eventually rescued a win by scoring in injury time.
Shaking his head, luckless Braes coach Allan Laidler pointed to a match total of six disciplinary cards - one red and five yellow - which kept the pot boiling for all of the game's 93 minutes before his battling team eventually ran out of steam.
