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GFA/Banks Beer KO Cup… National champions Alpha United in action today; Santos hoping to break losing jinx

Nov 27, 2013 Sports

Play in the Georgetown Football Association (GFA)/Banks Beer Knockout Cup continues today with another double header at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground. In the feature contest at 20:00hrs, national champions Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United square off with East Bank giants Grove Hi-Tech in what promises to be a bruising encounter.
Crushing their rivals by a 6-1 score line compliments of a Manasseh Primo hat trick in their most recent encounter, Alpha will look to the likes of Anthony Abrams, Gregory Richardson and Primo to continue their dominance as they attempt to seal their passage to the next round.
Standing in their way and aiming to create a different outcome when opening whistle sounds for the East Bank unit will be the combination of John Matthews and Dominic Garnett.
Alpha coach Wayne Dover during a pre-match comment said “We started our preparation early for the national league and as we go through different competitions we are doing maintenance work. Currently we are doing more tactical work and team organization as well as patterns in attack and set pieces.”
“We don’t look at score lines; we just go into the game looking for the win. Whether you win by one or six, the objective is to win on the day. If we happen to win 1-0, the important thing is that we would have progressed to the next stage” added Dover.
In the curtain raiser, Santos, a team that has not been doing well recently will no doubt be aiming to break that jinx, having lost four games on the trot, but how they do that will depend on the performances of their main strike force that includes Glenorvan Edmonds, Odel Williams and Michael Pedro when they face off with Houston Stars in the opening fixture at 18:00hrs.
Dwain Babb, coach of the Santos in an invited comment said “Preparation is coming along as usual. It’s a knockout tournament so we coming with a different strategy to a league. Even through the match will be played on game day, I am trying to motivate them as much as I can in practice”.
The fans have been very supportive to date and another packed house is anticipated as the action to be part of prize monies that exceed $13million heats up.

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