For relegation-threatened Molynes United, a league-topping 64 yellow cards tell a story of indiscipline, but that’s not the major concern for head coach Jermaine Thomas, whose team suffered yet another loss in the Jamaica Premier League season and a first against Waterhouse FC in this campaign.

For Waterhouse, and particularly for their Panamanian coach Javier Ainstein, Wednesday’s impressive 4-0 victory at Constant Spring Sports Complex was a welcomed reaction to Sunday’s big defeat to a Montego Bay United team that continued its march with a 4-3 victory against Dunbeholden.

At “Spring” Thomas pointed to a failure to make the most of their opportunities as the biggest issue facing the 12th-placed Molynes team, which has now gone two months without a victory.

“Looking at the yellow cards that we have amassed, most are probably not down to indiscipline, at times players have to really play hard. Yes, there are times when they get some careless ones, and as a club, as a coach, you’ll never be satisfied with those,” Thomas told the Jamaica Observer.

“We’ve been playing like this all season, creating good opportunities, creating good chances, having sometimes the better run of play, but we have been unable to convert, and if you don’t convert and your opponent take their chances, then you’re going to have results like these, we’ve been playing like this all season, creating good opportunities, creating good chances, having sometimes they better run a play. But we have been unable to convert, and if you don’t convert and your opponent take their chances, then you’re going to have results like these,” Thomas said.

In truth, Molynes did have the better of play for much of the second half, but they had precious little to show for it; in fact, they somehow managed to concede two goals in that period without really testing Waterhouse goalkeeper Roje Williams.

Things, however, started going downhill for the opening period after a strong start from Waterhouse.

The first 10 minutes of the encounter saw the Drewsland team looking to possess the ball and create openings through slick, short passing in the middle and final thirds, which more often than not managed to break Molynes’ press in the centre of the park.

Pretty passing and purposeful pressing aside, neither side was able to carve out any real openings until the 22nd minute when Waterhouse Captain Ky-mani Campbell shot wide from a distance before Colorado Murray teased the crossbar with a volley on the swivel from just inside the box six minutes later.

Two minutes later, that Molynes indiscipline showed its face again, this time when defender Sergeni Frankson brought down Shamarie Dallas in the penalty box.

Dallas, a point of reference for Waterhouse for the entire match, got onto a clinical through pass and had his feet moved from underneath him after cutting the burly defender.

Neron Barrow stepped up to calmly convert in the 34th minute to give Waterhouse a deserved lead.

Murray got a great opportunity to double the advantage in the 43rd but could not get enough purchase on his header after making contact with a perfectly measured lob pass from midfield metronome Denardo Thomas.

Murray didn’t have too long to lament his miss as Thomas again fed him with another teasing cross on the stroke of half-time, which this time he managed to bury from the doorstep of the goal for the 2-0 lead.

Molynes seemed to be a different team in the second half, basically setting up camp in their opponents’ half, with Nicholas Nelson and Tyrique Wilson giving the Waterhouse defenders much to think about. Still, that possessional and positional dominance never resulted in any real opportunities.

It took a good half-hour or so in the second half for Waterhouse to work their way into the Molynes box, Thomas driving his shot against the far upright after being played into the box.

Molynes huffed and puffed but got the wind knocked out of them in the 85th minute when Thomas, again, showed his class, slotting home after finding himself with time and space.

National Under-17 standout Jamone Lyle scored the symbolic fourth goal in minute 89 after pass from Mario Simms ended a sweeping move of close to 15 passes.

For Coach Ainstein, Wednesday’s response to their 0-4 loss to MBU in their last outing was an important step in their progress.

“When we finished the Montego Bay match, I was counting down the minutes to play again. We needed to play and forget the defeat. Sometimes when you are winning, winning, winning, you can lose sometime, it’s normal. If you don’t know losing, you can’t know how to win. We need to be able to manage the victories and the defeats,” said Ainstein.

The win sent Waterhouse up to fifth on 43 points, two more than Cavalier, who are idle because of Mount Pleasant’s Concacaf Champions Cup match on Thursday.

At Jarrett Park Richardo Ramsay scored a brace (64th, 65th) to help MBU (56 points) to their close win over ninth-place Dunbeholden (32 points), for whom Shakeen Powell (59th, 71st) scored a brace of his own. Malachi Sterling at the stroke of half-time and Dwight Merrick (83rd) got the other goals for the league leaders, while substitute Stephen Barnett (77th) scored Dunbeholden’s third.

In Wednesday’s other game, 11th-placed Treasure Beach FC (26 points) and Portmore United, who are fourth on 46, played out a dramatic 2-2 draw at STETHS Sports Complex, where two goals were scored in added time.

Treasure Beach’s Raheem Porter (26th) responded to an early strike from Dunsting Cohen (8th). Portmore seemed to secure the three points when Ronaldo Robinson came off the bench to score one minute into added time, only for defender Afiba Chambers (90+6) to rescue a point for the home team at the death.

THOMAS… we’ve been playing like this all season, creating good opportunities, creating good chances, having sometimes the better run of play, but we have been unable to convert

Ky-Mani Campbell (left) of Waterhouse FC gets to the ball ahead of Rashawn Livingston of Molynes United during the Jamaica Premier Legue match at Constant Spring field on Wednesday.(Photos: Naphtali Junior)