- PAUL REID
Wadadah's Jermaine Anderson (right) celebrates his second half goal that gave his team the lead over Constant Spring in their Wray and Nephew National Premier League game at Jarrett Park yesterday. Joining Anderson in the celebration is midfielder Daniel Ricketts.
Paul A. Reid, Staff Reporter
WESTERN BUREAU:
WADADAH SCORED their first home win of the Wray and Nephew National Premier League season after beating Constant Spring 2-0 in their return round game at Jarrett Park yesterday.
Jermaine Anderson scored his 12th goal of the season and Olivia Sewell got the second as Wadadah beat Constant Spring for the second time to record their third win of the season.
Constant Spring finished with 10 players after Dean Hillelide picked up two yellow cards in the space of four minutes in the first half and was expelled. According to coach Danny Lyn, that made his team's task even more difficult.
Wadadah's coach Anthony 'Follies' Williams, who was very animated in the first half urging his team to move forward, said:
"They looked jaded in the first half. I don't know if the change of starting time affected the players. We have been starting a bit flat over the past few games but we had a serious chat at half-time and the players responded."
This was the first time since the opening weekend the team was playing a home game at 3:30p.m. Their matches at Jarrett Park normally kick-off at 6:00p.m.
Lyn said his team did not follow instructions.
"If a team don't follow instructions they will always get beaten," he said. "The first instruction I gave them was that Wadadah is the taller team, so play the ball on the ground and just move it around. They got into a long ball situation and we just could not beat them in the air."
INDIVIDUAL SKILL
Except for the red card and some display of individual skill by former national players Walter Boyd of Constant Spring and Daniel Ricketts of Wadadah, the first half was well below par.
Boyd's long-range right footer from a rebound in the 43rd minute was just turned around the post for a corner by goalkeeper Gavin Barrett.
The second half started much better as in just over a minute, Anderson finished off a good move when he beat Ralston Robinson from just on the edge of the penalty area.
Boyd, who was tightly marked for the 90 minutes by Garfield Brown, hit the post in the 57th minute, the first of three times that a shot from a Constant Spring player would find the woodwork in the second half.
Jameel Thompson should have drawn Constant Spring level on goals in the 58th when he was sent through by Boyd, but he shot tamely, straight to 'keeper Barrett, instead
Wadadah put the game out of reach of the Kingston team in the 77th minute when Sewell beat Robinson to his right.
He also saved his place on the field as his coach, Williams, had written up a substitution card to take him out for Calvin Coward. The coach ruefully asked the fourth official to withdraw the change, later putting Coward on for the injured Rohan Reid.
Both teams missed chances late in the game, Alberto Fray hit the inside of the Wadadah goal post in the 82nd, while Coward's point -blank shot from a goal-mouth melee was saved by a defender.
