Walkovers continue to plague the Power Stout Inter-Market Football Competition with Wismar Market being the latest team to gain a victory via that route when Vendors Arcade failed to show while New Amsterdam got past Stabroek Market at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground on Tuesday.
In the clash between Stabroek Market and the New Amsterdam side, the Berbicians won 2 – 1 after leading the entire match.
Colin Bowry scored both goals for New Amsterdam in the 14th and 51st minutes while Stabroek Market scored in the 61st minute.
Stabroek Market boasted a few experienced Premier League players such as former national Neville `Lambada’ Stanton and Jerome Richardson of the Guyana Defence Force and King Solomon of Pele but they were still unable to pull off a victory in the last game in the first round.
Bowry’s second goal was the best of the two as he picked up the ball a few yards into the opposition’s half and raced towards the goal. At about 25 yards out he unleashed a shot which had goal written all over it and which beat the ‘keeper before slamming into the back of the net. Solomon’s goal for Stabroek Market was also quite impressive as he took the ball at the top of the box while unmarked and backing the goal, pivoted, and advanced towards the goal before calmly slipping the ball past the advancing `keeper. Stabroek Market looked like they would have equalized in the 68th minute but Richardson missed the goal after he received a ball in the six-yard box and New Amsterdam breathed a sigh of relief when referee Lawrence Drakes blew the regulation time whistle.
The quarter-final round kicks off tonight at the GFC ground with Bourda and La Penitence opposing New Amsterdam and Plaisance at 6pm and 8pm respectively while on Saturday, Stewartville will battle Wismar in another quarter-final at 7pm.
The other quarter-final match involving Kitty will not be played because their opponents Merriman’s Mall and Golden Grove did not show up for their qualifying matches, putting Kitty through to the semi-final round which is scheduled for next Thursday.
