Harbour View FC’s Oquassa Chong (entrance) goes flying after a crunching sort out from Montego Bay United’s Jordan Britto of their Jamaica Premier League sport performed on the Montego Bay Sports activities Advanced on Thursday. (Picture: Paul Reid)
Paul Davis bought his first win as head coach of Montego Bay United (MBU) when the group edged a cussed Harbour View 1-0 on the Montego Bay Sports activities Advanced on Thursday.
It took a spectacular strike from Jourdain Fletcher, within the 69th minute, two minutes after he was introduced on as a second-half substitute. Davis, who was in cost the final time the Montego Bay group lifted the title, in 2016, mentioned the sensation was good.
It was back-to-back 1-0 wins for Montego Bay United in opposition to Harbour View this season as additionally they avenged their solely dwelling lack of the season after the East Kingston group got here from a objective right down to win 2-1 within the first spherical.
After a hard-fought 1-1 draw in opposition to league leaders Mount Nice of their ultimate second-round sport on the similar venue, Davis mentioned, “It feels good, actually good.This efficiency was a continuation from the Mount Nice sport. We had been extra constant all through the sport.”
Davis, who not too long ago changed Rodolfo Zapata, mentioned the first-half efficiency was “one of the best the group has performed since I got here right here, we had been shifting the ball round, we bought some possibilities however we had been giving the ball away. We had been extra affected person at the moment however it was an excellent win and an excellent feeling”.
Davis says the week of coaching the group had since their earlier sport benefited them as he was in a position spend time making an attempt to implement his type of play and mentioned they gamers had been adapting slowly.
“We will see the ball shifting round, irritating the subsequent group they usually had been being affected person however they should begin taking extra of their possibilities,” he mentioned.
Harbour View Head Coach Donald Stewart says his group deserved extra from the sport.
“I feel the group performed properly,” he instructed the Jamaica Observer. “The trouble was wonderful as properly. We had been well-organised however sadly we conceded a objective, the one motion we didn’t cope with correctly, and it price us the sport.”
The loss noticed Harbour View slip a spot right down to eleventh place in what’s setting as much as be a brutal relegation battle with seven factors separating 5 groups on the foot of the factors desk.
Montego Bay United thought they’d taken the lead however Shaniel Thomas was dominated to have been marginally offside when he performed the ball previous goalkeeper Anthony Bennett into the far proper nook of the objective.
Fletcher scored the sport’s solely objective when he curled a left-footer on the proper aspect from about 25 yards out, into the highest left-hand nook of the objective, leaving Bennett rooted to his objective line and he may solely watch the ball sail previous him.
