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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Karl[/i] [br]Under-20s outclass Haiti - Shelton, Howell strike twice in 4-0 win By PAUL-ANDRE WALKER, Staff Reporter DOUBLE STRIKES FROM Luton Shelton and Horace Howell helped Jamaica's Young Reggae Boyz to a 4-0 Youth World Cup qualifying tie against Haiti at Ferdie Neita Park yesterday. Jamaica got all their goals in the second half. Shelton opened the scoring in the 63rd minute, completing his double three minutes later. Shelton's strikes were separated by a 64th minute goal from Horace Howell, who struck again in the 70th. Jamaica started slowly and the battle that was expected from the Haitians was evident with the first half ending in a listless 0-0 scoreline. Few chances Haiti were able to get a few chances in the half and more importantly, the clearer chances went to Leonel Saint Preux who showed good pace to outrun his marker. Facing Jamaica's custodian, Ryan Thompson, in a one-on-one situation, Saint Preux was foiled by the goalie rushing off his line, forcing the Haitian to take the ball too wide. The second half was more sprightly as the Jamaicans began showing they could knock the ball around. Akeem Priestly, who had been unusually quiet, began to become more prominent, first dribbling into space before unleashing a testing shot at goal. Priestly afterwards hooked up with Shelton, who had stolen a ball on the half-line, in a string of give and go that ended with Shelton sauntering into the box to finish in clinical fashion. Not a minute later, the inexperience of Haiti, which seemed shocked to have gone down, showed itself with a defender gifting Rafei Wolfe a ball inside the box that he tried to tap over goalkeeper Peter Moel's head. The partially blocked attempt was headed home by fast approaching substitute Howell. With the game at 2-0, Jamaica went on the attack and looked a class team in patches, grabbing their next goal only minutes later. It was again Wolfe, who was responsible for the goal after he had an opening inside the box and unselfishly knocked a lateral pass to Shelton that took the 'keeper out of the equation, allowing the striker to score his second of the evening. With the score at 3-0, Haiti reorganised and pressed the Jamaicans, who for the most part stood up well in defence. However, Haiti were also a little unfortunate to have a shot hit the apex of the right upright after taking a deflection off the head of a Jamaican defender. Jamaica knocked the wind out of the sails of the Haitians for good when Shelton again showed his ability by outpacing his marker down the left touchline to drive in a low cross that was met by Howell. The final chance of the game went to Haiti when Jackson Jean rose to head a ball wide from eight yards away after his team had won a deserved corner. Haiti's coach, Miguel Angel Aguilar Abando, was disappointed by his team's loss but said they played well. "We didn't play so bad. There were some technical errors that were made in defence after the second goal. Basically, they got a little bit disorganised and gave it away," he said. "The second game will start from zero and now I see what the Jamaican team is made of and we are going to try all that we can to make sure that the game turns even. We'll have to go back and look at the strategy a little bit," Abando added. Match-rusty Jamaica's coach, Wendell Downswell, agreed with his Haitain counterpart. "The fact that we haven't played a really good match in the last three-four weeks made us a little bit match-rusty but in the second half following the instructions you saw a more classy performance with us putting the ball around, keeping the posession and we are happy to have got four goals and for the kind of discipline that the team showed in the second half," he said. "Haiti played well in spurts so definitely we have to pay attention to them. One goal and they could get into their game. So we need to maintain discipline so we can improve the performance come next game," Downswell added. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.