Stag Elite League ...Alpha whip Monedderlust to lead table; Buxton hold Pele to draw as Richardson draws red

Stag Elite League …Alpha whip Monedderlust to lead table; Buxton hold Pele to draw as Richardson draws red

Mar 01, 2016 Sports

By Franklin Wilson
Even the red card that Gregory Richardson drew with one minute to full time for violent

This Pele FC player at right eases into the Buxton defensive third being pursued.

conduct against Buxton United’s Inceford Charles (yellow card) couldn’t take away from a solid performance by the East Coast side as they held Pele to a 0-0 draw in the feature match of the night as Stag Elite League (SEL) FINALE action continued at the GFC ground on Sunday night.
Despite not producing any goals, Buxton, which earned its first point of the season were able to match Pele for the duration of the match that was played at a very fast pace which held the attention of the small group of fans on hand.
The first game of the night produced a 4-0 win for Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United – on the strength of a hat-trick from Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams – over West Berbice’ Monedderlust which saw them easing into pole position on the points table ahead of Genesis winner, Slingerz.
Buxton played a solid and compact game and were not afraid to take the fight to Pele, a display that earned them their first point of the season in an admirable performance.
They were able to shut out and frustrate Richardson up front to the extent that he was red carded in retaliation to stiff marking which sometimes was questionable even Charles’ forays at times against Richardson

Alpha United’s Anthony Abrams’ (#10) header eluded Monedderlust goalie Elvis Rutherford but was cleared off the line by a defender, 2nd left.

did not get the attention of the standing referee.
Moments before drawing the red, Richardson could have been heard saying that the referee was not vigilant enough as he {Richardson} would get a red for retaliating to what was at times blatant pushing from Charles.
Despite, the match produced end to end action from start to finish with both sides squandering a few chances; in the end, the teams had to settle for a single point each. Pele moved to four points.
In the opening match, Alpha United squandered a plethora of chances but were still able to walk away with full points from a 4-0 triumph over Monedderlust, Anthony Abrams scoring his fourth goal in two matches as he achieved a hat-trick.
There were some flashes of competitiveness produced by Monedderlust but they couldn’t produce the goods to keep Abrams and company at bay. The first of his hat-trick in the opening half was scored in the 10th minute after goalkeeper Elvis Rutherford was drawn out of his goal with Abrams slipping the ball into an empty goal even as two defenders pursued in vain.
The ensuing minutes to the second goal saw a number of chances being muffed by the former number one side in Guyana. Abrams doubled the lead in the 38th minute before achieving his hat-trick in the 42nd minute to become the leading goal scorer to date with four apart from scoring the fastest goal of the FINALE so far (10th minute).
The second half saw Monedderlust, still on a single point from three matches, putting up better resistance as Alpha were only allowed one goal which came off the boot of their hard working and fleet footed Captain, Dwight Peters.
Arguably the fastest player in the SEL, Peters took the ball from about 10 meters into Monedderlust’s half working his way into the box before beating Rutherford to his left in the 82nd minute. Alpha are now on seven points, one more than Slingerz which will have the chance to take back the lead on Friday when they take on home team GFC in the main attraction.
The curtain raiser pits the Guyana Defence Force against Fruta Conquerors from 18:00hrs.