Paul A. Reid, Staff Reporter
Wadadah's Daniel Ricketts (left) prepares to tackle his Constant Spring opponent Carlos Williams in the second half of their Wray & Nephew National Premier League game at Jarrett Park on Sunday. Both men scored in the game that Wadadah won 3-2. - PHOTO BY PAUL REID
WESTERN BUREAU:
A SECOND-HALF rally by Constant Spring came up just short as despite two second half goals, they lost to Wadadah at Jarrett Park for the second straight time, going down 3-2.
After coming from behind to win last week, it was the opposite situation yesterday as Wadadah were forced to hang on for dear life to earn another three points and jumped over Rivoli into seventh place in the points tables.
Daniel Ricketts (14th), Jermaine Anderson (21st) with his 14th goal of the season and Calvin Coward scored for Wadadah, while Jermaine Russell scored a second half penalty and Carlos Williams (88th) from a free kick gave Constant Spring some life.
Both teams missed several chances, especially in the second half that was highlighted by Constant Spring's two goals that came from set plays.
Wadadah looked far better in attack in the first half creating a number of chances but faded badly in the second half.
COACH ANGERED
Wadadah's coach, Anthony 'Follis' Williams, was angry despite the win, blaming his "inexperienced defenders" for not carrying out instructions and lacking the skills required to play at this level.
"We have a defense line that plays as if they know nothing about football, they don't mark, they don't tackle and even when we led 3-0 we kept making numerous mistakes. But Constant Spring did not capitalise, if they did we would have lost as we gave up two clear chances. It just shows that our inexperienced defenders will hurt the team."
Constant Spring's Danny Lyn was disappointed after the game, saying they would have at least taken a point had they taken their chances.
"We gave away three goals basically...we got two clear chances to score but we fumbled them. We came back strong in the second half and despite being down 3-0 the players really gave it a go and tried to make a game of it but we just came up short."
Lyn said their failures in the first half "was a matter of being too relaxed and we gave up the two soft goals and our backs was against the wall ... three simple defensive errors. In the second half we took over the game and scored two good goals, we fell short, we keep shooting ourselves in the foot."
