Portmore United's players and fans are hoping that Roen 'Bumpy' Nelson's late goal against Boys' Town in a 1-0 victory on Sunday will spark a revival in the team.

Nelson snatched his second goal of the season coming off the bench, to give Portmore an important three points - their first points of the second round in the Digicel Premier League.

The win saw Portmore move to 20 points from 14 games. Boys' Town remained on 23.

The Boys' Town camp was very disappointed as they squandered a chance to move closer to Tivoli Gardens (27), which drew 1-1 with Arnett Gardens; and Harbour View (28), the previous leaders. Harbour View were ambushed 2-0 by Waterhouse (23) at the Harbour View Mini Stadium.

Perfect start

Nelson scored on August Town near the death on opening day to give Portmore a perfect start to the season as Portmore quickly rushed to seven points from three games.

The team, however, has slumped to 10 points from 10 matches, including two losses at the start of the second round.

The fans are holding their breath and are hopeful that Portmore will turn the corner, and that Reon 'Bumpy' Nelson will spark another run for the team.

"Bumpy is back," one fan shouted with an air of optimism as the striker rushed to the sideline to celebrate his goal.

The Portmore camp was happy Sunday night, as the team played with more urgency and created good goalscoring chances, but were denied early by the goalkeeping of Kirk Porter, Boys' Town's custodian.

Kemeel Wolfe, who justifiably received a starting role, was the standout player for the Sunshine City team and he gave Portmore the punch they needed.

Portmore though had to dig deep into their reserves. They went down to 10 men in the 73rd minute, as Michael Binns was shown a red card for a second bookable offence.

However, Boys' Town could not capitalise on the one-man advantage.

Good performance

"It was a good performance. We dug in and we fought, we really needed three points and we worked hard tonight,"said Portmore's coach, Linval Dixon.

He added: "We were playing a good Boys' Town team and we won. We knew we weren't scoring and we worked on it in training and it paid off tonight. Hopefully, we can build on it."

Boys' Town's coach, Andrew Price, was ejected from the bench by the referee in the 63rd minute for allegedly being abusive to the officials. However, Price, who was visibly upset by the officiating, never commented on that issue in post-match interviews.

"I thought it's the usual script that we normally have; we got the chances and we didn't put them away. We should have put the game away from the first half and once you don't convert chances playing against teams like Portmore, they are going to hurt you," he said.

"We weren't playing assertive and because of that we weren't clinical in front of goal."