Elite Sporting Club have been
exquisite this season and they are finding the net in regular fashion, as
testified on Sunday in the Cayman Islands Football Association fixture at the
Ed Bush stadium. In their local West Bay derby with Future, Elite won comfortably
5-0 with two goals from Jairo Sanchez and one apiece from Alex Belcher, Dwayne
‘Gaza’ Wright and Derrin Ebanks. Table toppers Elite have scored 17 times in
the last three games and look even better than two seasons ago when they won
the league, Digicel Cup and were finalists in the FA Cup.
Elite’s technical director Greg
Ebanks is not getting too excited by their initial success though. “I think we
caught Future at a good time,” he said. “They were missing a few key players.
Sometimes there is a thing called luck which we had a lot of. This is one small
step, there are a thousand more to go. It is a long, long season and we’re not
getting carried away.”
In the other match at Ed Bush, Tigers
beat Bodden Town 3-2. An own goal and strikes by Maynor Rodriguez and Jose Luis
Bush were enough for Tigers. Arvid Harris and Rashad Rankin were the Bodden
Town scorers.
Roma United have always been a
stylish team but when it came to basics like formation, tactics and discipline,
they were always lacking. But they seem to have found a new resolve this term
and it paid off handsomely at the TE McField Annex on Sunday with a 1-0 victory
over last season’s double cup winners George Town.
Roma consist of mostly Jamaicans
but it was a Caymanian, Kevin McField, who got the golden touch near the end of
a pulsating match that could have gone either way. George Town had better
possession but squandered too many chances and only have themselves to blame for
at least not earning a point.
East End may be the Premier League
newcomers, but like Bodden Town were last season, the young side are no
pushovers. Well drilled, totally focused and extremely fit – which is what you
would expect because their coach is Thiago Cunha, Cayman’s national fitness
coach – they were never outclassed by last season’s league champions Scholars
International who are having a stuttering start to this campaign.
Scholars had most of the possession
in the first half and went ahead, deservedly, from a Richard ‘Bulla’ Brown
penalty just before the break, but they were never able to overwhelm the
battling East Enders who stoically refused to succumb and got their just
desserts when the always lively former national striker Carson Fagan equalised
near the end.
Scholars midfielder Victor Chicas
was sent off for a second bookable offence near the end to complete Scholars’
misery. Even though they drew, there was an air of a loss afterwards, knowing
full well that they should have capitalised on the many chances they
created.
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