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Fruta Conquerors, Santos into semi-finals
Jowel Lloyd
Hosts Fruta Conquerors for the second consecutive game prevailed in penalty shootouts after regulation and extra times failed to produce a winner in each of those encounters.
Playing in the NaMilCo Football Festival on Tuesday evening in the feature match of a double-header, Fruta Conquerors eliminated the Guyana Defence Force 4-2 on penalty kicks to move into the semi-final s of the competition.
In the earlier encounter, Santos, who like so many of the teams in Georgetown are in rebuilding mode scraped past a lacklustre BK Western Tigers by a 1-0 margin with Jowel Lloyd’s 69th minute effort separating the two teams as they too made it to the final four.
Lloyd’s goal came through a piece of poor defending after a ball was squared from the left flank across the goal and it eluded all the Tigers defenders, before ending at the feet of Lloyd, who easily tucked it past the custodian.
In the night cap, the Army have only themselves to blame for their exit after missing numerous opportunities to put away the rapidly improving youthful side of Conquerors that has shown that ‘big’ name clubs will not intimidate them.
However, Conquerors have to thank substitute goalkeeper Colin Edwards for their entry into the next round after he executed some brilliant saves to deny the soldiers front line that included Warren Gilkes, Desford Williams and Eusi Phillips, who missed the easiest of chances in extra time after finding himself alone in a goalmouth scrimmage, but hammered his shot over the crossbar instead of just poking the ball into the back of the nets. As the result indicated, they lived to rue the missed opportunities.
The competition continues today with two more quarter-final matches involving Alpha United versus New Amsterdam United at 18:00 hrs and then the feature clash between Victoria Kings and Camptown from 20:00 hrs.
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