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Western Tigers FC/ Alpha ‘United advance to next round after convincing K&S victories

Dec 23, 2012 Sports

 

Western Tigers FC bought back memories of their tournament winning feats in the 2009/2010 edition of the Kashif and Shanghai Football extravaganza with a brilliant display of classic football and mauled Grove Hi Tech 7-0 when action in the 23rd edition of the Kashif and Shanghai Football extravaganza continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground Friday evening last.
Devon Millington scored in the 31st, 33rd, 50th, 86th and 89th minutes with support from Shawn ‘Bubbly’ Beveney and Paul Giles, in the 79th and 80th minutes respectively.
Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United FC was also in good form and on the back of a triple from the quintessential Dwight Peters, which included a penalty in the 50th minute, overcame Rosignol United FC 3-1 after Delbert Wilson narrowed the lead in the 67th minute.
The Alpha/Rosignol United duel started at a fiery pace with the former team looking threatening as they invaded the latter’s goal. The strike combination of Peters, Chris Nurse and Kelvin McKenzie teamed up and weaved circles around the opposition’s strikers but failed to breach the defence cordon.
The Berbicians, led by the aggression of Curtis Moore, Kelvin Joseph and Olvis Mitchell, counterattacked and indeed looked threatening and when Tyson Carmichael pounced on a loose ball and delivered a powerful kick that narrowly missed the opposition’s goal, the cheering fans settled down for an exhilarating duel.
Mitchell featured once again, dribbling the ball deep into the Alpha’s territory but wasted a superb play, blundering just near the goal mouth for their custodian, Richie Richards to safely scoop up.
The Berbicians demonstrated good technique early in the game with excellent combinations but faltered on the conversion. Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams then made his presence felt after collecting a pass and charged to Rosignol United’s goal. He let loose a ‘stinger’ that had goal written all over it but Rosignol United’s custodian plucked the ball out of the air. Undaunted, Abrams collected a pass shortly afterwards and raced down the left wing. With the opposition’s defence advancing ominously, Abrams passed the ball to a charging Peters who charismatically completed the play. Abrams should have made it two up when he had only the goalie to contend with but somehow managed only a tame strike that ended up in the clutches of custodian, Keith Fraser.
Rosignol United then called in Curtis Moore at the expense of Kyron Lynch mere minutes before striker Delbert Wilson struck the ball past the clutching fingers of Fraser to narrow the lead in the 68th minute and it was game on.
It appeared as though the Wilson success was just the tonic Alpha needed as shortly afterwards Kithson Bain launched a robust attack but his kick, delivered with terrific force, was rendered inconsequential by a diving Fraser who punched it onto the touchline.
Alpha then made their first change, sending in Abrams for Manasseh Primo. A determined Bain then replicated an earlier kick which, ironically, received a similar treatment when Fraser once again flicked it to the side of the goal. Peters featured once again, just before the final whistle when he deceived Fraser, sending in the perfect shot and despite his earlier acrobatic feats, Fraser just could not intercept the ball.
The players will move over to the Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground this evening when Milerock tackle Den Amstel starting at 18:00hrs followed by Silver Shattas up against Uitvlugt two hours later.

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