Angostura 1976 FC Phoenix and Superstar Rangers won their matches to top the Sportworld National Super League standings on Sunday.
With only two rounds of matches played in this year’s competition, both teams are off to a rousing start.
On the heels of beating defending champs Joe Public 2-1 on the league’s opening day, Rangers cruised past the Maraval Youth Academy 2-0.
Brimming with confidence away to the Academy at its Trinity College, Moka, home ground, Rangers made their intention clear from the first whistle and a Don Morris goal put them ahead in the 14th minute.
Rangers took a 1-0 lead into the half and were back on the grind on the resumption keeping the Academy from getting the equaliser and effectively ending the challenge, as Josimar Belgrave’s 87th minute goal sealed victory for them.
Against Stokely Vale FC at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago, Phoenix was no polite guest, ensuring that there was victory and achieved this by 2-1
The teams locked horns for the entire first half, but failed to get a goal. This would soon change after the interval.
Whatever Phoenix coach Terry Williams told his players during the break had the desired effect as, in the 54th minute, Dominique Kerr opened the scoring.
Seven minutes later, Gary Bruce scored Phoenix’s second goal.
Stokely Vale’s Warren Phillips tried to effect a late turn-around of fortunes, but his 83rd minute goal proved not effort.
PLIPDECO Caroni FC shut-out Media 21 FC 2-0 after a two- minute, first-half scoring spree, during which Steve Benny, 24th, and Kyle Cupid, 26th, sealed the win for the Central giants at Gilbert Park, California.
The game descended into a slugfest soon after, as referee Michael Mohammed handed out yellow cards to five players, four of them from Caroni.
In the 20th minute Media 21’s Junior Waldron got the first caution and Caroni’s Kern Cupid picked up the second in the 38th. In the second half, his team-mates Bevon Knights, 65th, Kyle Cupid 82nd and Ryan Dipsingh, 85th, all followed him into the scorebook.
Neri Joseph’s 48th minute goal put a damper on M&M Harvard’s parade at the Larry Gomes Stadium, Arima, and gave Police FC its first win in the competition.
Harvard opened its season with hard-fought 1-0 win over WASA Clean and White on Wednesday, but suffered a similar fate when Police closed up shop .
Hosts Crab Connection FC handed Clean and White its second loss of the competition, a 3-1 rout at the San Juan Senior Comprehensive ground, Bourg Malatresse.
Connection began the scoring from as early as the first minute, when Marvin Oliver put his team ahead, but WASA, keen on taking at least a point out of the fixture, equalised in the 40th minute from the boot of Kirth Hutchings.
Rennie Brito restored Connection’s lead in the 76th minute and last season’s second highest goalscorer Marlon Warner made victory certain when he netted in the 90th minute.
The round’s only draw came out of the Joe Public FC versus Couva Players United match at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya, which ended 2-2.
Public, the defending champs, appears to be having a hard time getting off the ground this time around, but on the evening came out swinging and took an early lead, as Lyndon Andrews got the first of his two goals in the 25th minute.
United was quick to respond and Anthony Thompson got the equaliser in the 32nd minute. Public again went ahead in the 50th minute ,as Andrews notched his second.
But United’s Kirwyn Jackson put in an 87th minute goal to ensure that both teams share the points.