Written by Michael DaSilva
THE Guyana Defence Force (GDF) faltered and succumbed to a 2-3 defeat at the hands of Young Achievers when the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Banks Beer Premier League continued, yesterday, at the Georgetown Football Club, ground.One goal each from Mark Bobb, Deren Terrance and Lloyd Prince in the 8th, 23rd and 89th minute, respectively, saw Young Achievers defeating the soldiers by a 3-2 margin.
Scoring for the Army were Kennard Simeon in the 49th minute and Deylon Fraser in the 90th minute.
Bobb sent his team into the lead with a well placed shot and this was followed by a build up from Young Achievers’ defence that saw the ball being played from the defence to approximately 40 metres outside the Army’s goal .
The shot brought GDF’s custodian Basil Stephenson off his line, a GDF central defender tried to clear the ball in vain and Terrance latched onto it and comfortably placed between the uprights.
The soldiers were very guilty of not taking or executing clean ball control which gave the opposition the upper hand for most of the 130 minutes they rivalled each other.
The game was scheduled for 90 minutes duration at the end of which Young Achievers were leading 2-1, but for some unexplained reason, the game went into extra over-time, allowing both sides to score one more goal each.
Throughout the game, Yong Achievers’ custodian Quincy Ashley was hardly called upon to do duties as his team mates continued their rain on the opposition’s defence, leaving him with little or no work to do.
During the first session, the soldiers were very complacent in their approach to the game which caused them the match and a valuable three points.
Young Achievers now move on to six points from six matches, while GDF remain on 14 points from six matches.
Going into the second period trailing 0-2, GDF went into overdrive and pulled one back when the ball was lofted to goal and unintentionally struck the hand of a Young Achievers’ defender and the referee blew foul with the penalty being taken by Fraser who easily converted.
Young Achievers then forged further ahead when the ball was played from the midfield to Prince who placed it into second post.