Boys’ Town……………..1

Thomas (30th)

Montego Bay……………1

St Fluer (9th-penalty)

Peter Keyes missed a penalty chance in minute 85 that robbed an ailing Boys’ Town of maximum points in their Red Stripe Premier League game against Montego United at Collie Smith Drive on Sunday.

The game ended 1-1.

Happy with a point, coach Andrew Price, said: “We are playing fairly good football but just not scoring the goals to complement the team effort. Nonetheless, we have a set of quality players and we just need to get it right and go on a winning streak.”

His opposite number Carlos Garcia, said: “It is a game we should have won, but after we scored the opening goal, we sat back and let Boys’ Town in. And added to this, we had to make an early change that set our plans back. And even with other changes, we just could not go on to make better use of the chances we created.

Boys’ Town, probably feeling the effects of being rooted at the bottom of the standings, opened as though they were on a slow boat to China, and before they could settle, Montego Bay drew a penalty from an injudicious tackle from Xavian Virgo that left referee Jermaine Douglas with little choice than to point to the spot for a penalty. Lesly St Fluer then put Montego Bay in the lead.

Not even this could inspire greater effort from Boys’ Town. However, Montego Bay, who were not themselves any more inspiring, were forced to make an early substitution, but nothing changed radically for the better and Boys’ Town’s first real peep at goal drew them level through Rafiek Thomas, who rolled a low curling shot away from goalkeeper Jacomeno Barrett.

Teams:

Boys’ Town — Kirk Porter, Pearce Mc Pherson, Victor Thompson, Xavian Virgo, Garfield Gillespie, Marvin Stewart, Chavaney Willis (Asrick Samuels 65th), Michael Campbell, Andre Dawson (Peter Keyes 77th), Rafiek Thomas, Hugh Evans

Subs not used: Leon Goffe, Daemion Benjamin, Trevin Garnett, William Richards, Anthony Dawes

Booked: Evans (37th)

Montego United — Jacomeno Barrett, Keneil Kirlew, Cordel Simpson (Jerome Haughton 46th), Omar Gordon, Lesly St Fluer (Ladale Richie 26th), Dwayne Ambusley, Ronaldo Rodney, John Barrett, Dino Williams, Winston Wilkinson, Allan Ottey

Subs not used: Garen Downie, Deshane Beckford, Jermaine Woozencraft, O’Carey Spence, Kevaun Atkinson

Booked: Ambusley (64th), Haughton (79th), Ottey (87th)

Referee: Jermaine Douglas

Assistant Referees: Ricardo Morgan, Lloyd Edwards

Fourth Official: Tyrone Robinson

Match Commissary: Horace Lewis

— Hurbun Williams