2nd Turbo Football tourney... Rangers and Riddim Squad into quarterfinals

2nd Turbo Football tourney… Rangers and Riddim Squad into quarterfinals

Nov 07, 2018 Sports

Action between winners’ Northern Rangers (on the ball) and Western Tigers during the 3-1 result on Monday.

Close play between Pele (left) and Riddim Squad on Monday night.

Riddim Squad’s hat-trick hero, Travis Agard.

The opening night of the second annual Turbo football tournament kicked off on Monday with two identical 3-1 wins for Northern Rangers and Riddim Squad as these two teams became the first to book their spots in the quarterfinals of the 16-team knockout tournament.
In the feature match of the night, Northern Rangers had a comfortable win over Western Tigers with Steven Sankar firing the victors ahead in the 11th minute of the clash with a composed finish before Adolph George completed a brace in the 30th and 69th minutes.
Western Tigers would’ve felt that they had a good chance after Joshua Britton had netted to pull their deficit to one goal with almost half of the game to play in the 47th minute but Ruimveldt based team was completely outplayed.
Meanwhile, in the opening game, Riddim Squad’s Kevin Agard banged in a hat-trick to ensure the Mocha Arcadia based team pulled off a come from behind win against Pele Football Club that went ahead first through Abosi Jarvis in the 20th minute. All of Agard’s goals came from set pieces with him curling the last past Pele’s custodian to take the score to 3-1.
Round-of-16 matches continues tonight with two games from 18:30hrs. In the first match, Santos will match skills with Buxton United, while the feature match, which will kick off at 20:30hrs will be an engagement between Police football club and Beacons.
The winners of the competition will pocket $800,000, second place $400,000, third $200,000 and fourth $100,000.
Monday night’s scores:
Match #1 Riddim Squad 3 vs Pele FC 1
Goal scorers Riddim Squad
Kevin Agard 33,60, 90+2
Goal scorer Pele
Abosi Jarvis 20
Match #2 Northern Rangers 3 vs Western Tigers 1
Goal scorers Northern Rangers
Steven Sankar 11
Adolph George 30, 69
Goal scorer Western Tigers
Joshua Britton 47