Sporting add to Village woes
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Thursday | January 24, 2008
Nodley Wright, Freelance Reporter
Sporting's Owen Gordon
The woes of Village United continued yesterday as they were beaten 2-0 by Sporting Central in the Cash Plus Premier League at the Elliston Wakeland Centre.
Owen Gordon in the fourth minute and Sean Mason in the 24th minute provided the goals which kept the home team rooted at the bottom of the table and dented any chances they had of closing the gap on their nearest rivals, August Town, who played to a 1-1 draw with Reno at UWI.
Victory catapulted Sporting three places up the ladder to 25 points, while Village remain rooted to the bottom on 13.
Village United started the game poorly and owed this to their goalkeeper, Sheldon Brown, who had a horrible game. As brilliant as Brown was in Village's 2-1 win over Arnett Gardens recently, he was awful. He gave up his first goal in the fourth minute when Owen Gordon converted a free kick from just outside the 18-yard box on the left side.
Second goal
Brown continued to look shaky and gave up his second goal in the 24th minute when his defence cleared a ball, which fell kindly for the burly Mason midway the Village half. His powerful drive beat Brown, who appeared wrong-footed as he went to his right while the ball went in the opposite direction and beat him.
The wounded team changed their posture in the second half as they introduced Elvis Hart for Brown at the start of the half. That was followed by a double substition in the 51st minute as Devron Clarke took Everett Mullings' place and Ricardo Reid did likewise for Emille Thomas.
Village enjoyed the better of play in this half as they virtually camped out in the Sporting Central half of the field. They created chance after chance but could not find the finishing touch.
"I knew the game would be a poor one. I came here expecting that and with our half-time lead we decided to consolidate in the second half," said Sporting Central's coach, Chris Dawes.
Village's Paul 'Tegat' Davis sung a familiar tune, bemoaning his players' inability to convert chances.
"The attacking changes that we made worked but we still were not able to score," the disappointed former national striker said.
