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Saturday, March 15, 2025

T&T blasts SVG in Digicel opener

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Trinidad and To­ba­go's So­ca War­riors opened its cam­paign in the Dig­i­cel Caribbean Cup qual­i­fiers with a com­fort­able 6-2 vic­to­ry over St Vin­cent and the Grenadines (SVG) in Group F ac­tion at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, last night. The lo­cal team got three goals from strik­er De­von Jorsling, in­clud­ing a sec­ond minute left-foot­er which gave his team the lead and set the tone for the rest of the game. Ker­ry Bap­tiste scored a dou­ble and Hughton Hec­tor al­so got his name on the score­sheet. The War­riors, led by cap­tain Clyde Leon, dom­i­nat­ed the mid­field but could not capi­tilise on their dom­i­nance in the first half and paid the price when the vis­i­tors equalised through Shan­del Samuel in the 27th minute. Jorsling, how­ev­er, put his team back in front, hit­ting a righ foot­ed shot past goal­keep­er Dwayne Sandy in the 36th minute.

The War­riors should have in­creased their lead in the 41st minute but Ja­mal Gay fail to con­vert a good left side cross from Kendall Jagdeosingh. SVG would make T&T pay dear­ly for the miss, when Julius James' weak clear­ance found an un­marked Cor­nelius Stew­art who beat an ad­vanc­ing Jan Williams to put his team back on lev­el terms, two min­utes from the end of the half. The flood­gates opened in the sec­ond pe­ri­od, how­ev­er, as Bap­tiste, who re­placed Gay in the 52nd minute, scored with his third touch, four min­utes lat­er, af­ter col­lect­ing a cross from Lester Pelti­er on the right side. Jorsling added his third and T&T's fourth when he com­bined with Jagdeosingh in the 59th minute and blast­ed his shot past a be­wil­dered Sandy.

Mem­bers of the T&T team join De­von Jorsling in cel­e­bra­tion af­ter his sec­ond minute goal gave T&T the lead in the Dig­i­cel Caribbean Cup qual­i­fi­er against SVG last night.

Bap­tiste got his sec­ond and T&T's fifth af­ter he was brought down just out­side the area. The re­sult­ing free kick from skip­per Leon was played to Hec­tor, who re­placed Trent Noel in the 62th minute. Hec­tor found a free Bap­tiste who made no mis­take with his shot in the 66th minute.

Hec­tor added his name to the score sheet in the 90th minute when he took ad­van­tage of a dis­or­gan­ised SVG de­fence and his well tak­en free kick beat Sandy. In the first match of the dou­ble head­er, Haiti and Guyana played to a dull goal­less draw in their Group F match. The clash be­tween the 2007 cham­pi­on, Haiti and num­ber two ranked team in the re­gion, Guyana, failed to live up to ex­pec­ta­tions, which re­sult­ed in both teams walk­ing away with a point. Ac­tion con­tin­ues to­mor­row with T&T play­ing Guyana in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble head­er at 7 pm Haiti and SVG will meet in the first game from 5 pm Both match­es will be played at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la.


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