T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) cam­paign­er Club San­do FC was boot­ed out of the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Club Shield on Fri­day night when they were beat­en 2-1 by Mar­tini­quan team Gold­en Li­on in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The south­ern club en­joyed an un­blem­ished record be­fore Fri­day's semi­fi­nal en­counter, which the Mar­tini­quans used to pro­pel them to the fi­nal to­day against Suri­name club Robin­hood, who thrashed Met­ro­pol­i­tan of Puer­to Ri­co 5-0 in the oth­er semi­fi­nal con­test on the night.

Club San­do, the third-place team in the top-flight T&T foot­ball league, need­ed to win on the night to progress out of the group. But they went down ear­ly as Mar­vin Bel­lance opened the scor­ing for the Gold­en Li­on in the 12th minute.

Twelve min­utes lat­er, the Mar­tini­quans dou­bled the score as leg­endary Mar­tinique for­ward Kevin Parse­main, who fin­ished as the top scor­er in the 2022 edi­tion of the Shield, made it 2-0 in the 24th minute with the half-time in­ter­val still a dis­tance away.

Club San­do pulled a goal back right be­fore half­time as Alvin Jones rock­et­ed in a free kick to bring his side to with­in 2-1.

Gold­en Li­on tight­ened up in the back in the sec­ond half to nail down the win.

As­sis­tant coach Ab­dal­lah Phillips said his play­ers gave an ex­cel­lent per­for­mance on Fri­day night but in­ex­pe­ri­ence saw them fall just short.

"It was a tough loss be­cause we won all our match­es be­fore, but ku­dos to the Mar­tini­quan team, they are a well-coached out­fit who have been at this com­pe­ti­tion be­fore. It was just a bit of com­pla­cen­cy that stepped in, as the play­ers found out the mag­ni­tude of the team they were up against on the night," Phillips ex­plained.

The South­ern­ers will to­day face Met­ro­pol­i­tan of Puer­to Ri­co in a third and fourth-place play-off be­fore the fi­nal match.

In the oth­er semi­fi­nal game, Robin­hood de­feat­ed Met­ro­pol­i­tan 5-0. The star of the day for Robin­hood was Shaquille Cairo, who notched a hat trick with goals in the 41st, 72nd and 75th min­utes to take his tal­ly to eight goals in the tour­na­ment thus far and be the lead­ing goalscor­er.

Dim­itrio An­dro added an­oth­er goal on the stroke of half­time (45th) while Car­los Da Sil­va sealed the win with a 69th-minute item to com­plete the rout.

Club San­do en­tered the match with 16 goals from three and none con­ced­ed. They de­feat­ed six-time Guade­loupe cham­pi­ons Sol­i­darite Sco­laire 4-0 in their open­ing match and were 3-0 vic­tors on Tues­day in their fi­nal round-robin en­counter over SV Dako­ta of Aru­ba.