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St Vincent routs Montserrat 7-0; Barbados & St Kitts draw 1-1

Oct 08, 2010 Sports

St Vincent and the Grenadines opened their Digicel Caribbean Cup campaign in a convincing manner in front of a boisterous home crowd at Victoria Park in the St. Vincent capital on Wednesday evening. With pacey striker Shandel Samuel in sizzling form the Vincy Heat made easy work of a poorly organised Montserrat defence to the delight of an energetic home crowd as they won 7-0.
Montserrat started the game brightly taking the game to the Vincy Heat in the first 5 minutes amassing 4 shots on target and forcing the first corner. The growing crowd in Victoria Park remained calm; the opener for the home team came after 26 minutes from the penalty spot with Shandel Samuel making no mistake from 12 yards after an unfortunate Junior Mendes was adjudged to have kicked Daren Hamlet in the face inside the box when trying to clear from a corner.
Samuel was on target 60 seconds later when he doubled the lead for St Vincent on 27 minutes. One long ball from the back from Chester Morgan sent the speedy Shandel Samuel through on goal and he calmly slotted the ball past the advancing keeper to send the already jubilant home fans into fits of rapture.
The Vincy Heat kept up the pressure in the second half and made it three 11 minutes after the restart. Myron Samuel picked up an attempted clearance on the edge of the Montserrat box and although his clipped pass was controlled by Montserrat defender Kenneth Dyer, Damol Francis had other ideas as he stole the ball off the bewildered dithering defenders knee and slotted the ball home under the legs of a helpless Hilton.
With Montserrat now in total disarray at the back Shandel Samuel walked past an ever stagnant defence and unselfishly crossed for his cousin Myron Samuel from 8 yards whose shot was brilliantly saved by Hilton only for the new captain Cornelius Stewart to crown his debut game with the armband with an acrobatic finish from the rebound and into the open net.
Samuels completed a glorious personal night and earned his hat-trick on 67 minutes when he easily converted from a fantastic run and cross from Emerald George.
Vincy Heat made it six after 70 minutes when Chad Balcombe was the first to pounce after Hilton had saved well from Stewarts initial shot. This coming inevitably after an ill disciplined Ellis Remy received his marching orders following a rash challenge earned him his second yellow card of the night.
Substitute Ramon Snagg completed the route on 89 minutes when he chipped over Hilton for the seventh and final goal.
Meanwhile, Barbados and St Kitts/Nevis had to settle for a hard-fought 1-1 draw in their clash.
The Bajan Tridents drew first blood after just 14 minutes when Rashida ‘Jeffrey’ Williams drilled a shot past Kittitian custodian Akil Byron following a smart build-up with the ball moving from the right side of midfield to the left. Former Barbados captain John Parris delivered a defence-splitting pass to an unmarked Williams just outside the penalty area after drawing the defence of the Sugar Boyz toward him. With only goalkeeper Akil Byron in his path, Williams made no mistake to beat him with a powerful shot.
St Kitts, who had won four of their previous eight encounters against Barbados while losing three and drawing the other, gradually took control of the match. However, they rushed far too many long-range shots which sailed over the bar, rather than try to penetrate the flat Barbados back four, marshalled by the imposing 6 foot, five inch centre back, Barry Skeete, another player with experience of playing in Argentina.
St Kitts/Nevis finally got the equaliser in the 61st minute and predictably, it was the combination of Gumbs and Isaac, which delivered for the Sugar Boyz, Gumbs dished off a neat pass to Isaac and his low shot from the top of the 18-yard box, took a deflection off Skeete and not even a desperate dive to his left by Rouse, who got his hands to the ball could stop it from rolling over the goal line.

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