Can anyone who saw the match post an report?

[Karl]

We would like to hear as many reports as possible.
Your various opinions are always welcomed by the MASSIVE!
Thank you.

[Farmah]

Monday, November 29th 2010 – Stade de Riviere Pilote, Martinique: Jamaica maintained their 100% record in the Digicel Cup tonight with a comprehensive performance against a strong Guadeloupe side that now assures them of winning Group I and qualifying to the Digicel Cup semi finals.

Jamaica played with the slight advantage of the wind in the first half and were nearly in front after only a minutes play when Dale Richards took advantage of the elements and let fly from all of 20 yards only for his shot to be well saved by an alert Bus in the French goal.

Richards continued to cause a huge amount of trouble down the left and when his cross was met by an inrushing Shelton from the left, his header shaved the far post when it seemed as if the Jamaicans were about to take the lead.

Richards almost went it alone soon after when he won a dash for the ball with French keeper Bus but when he turned to lob the ball back in the direction of the goal, Mocka had managed to scramble back and safely headed the ball away on the line.

Jamaica looked comfortable on the ball and moved it around with confidence and a growing swagger. It seemed more likely they would open the scoring soon but could not under estimate their technically sound opponents.

Guadeloupe were being out matched in most areas of the field but they still had to concede a goal which allowed their confidence grow more as the half wore on. With 4 minutes to half time Gotin had their best chance of the half when he turned and lashed out at his shot from the right side of the goal 8 yards out, but his effort went harmlessly wide and Miller was not troubled.

The French started the second half a lot brighter than they did the first and with Auvray making incise runs into the box they started to look a real threat. On 52 minutes the French should have scored when Mocka played a delicate chipped cross between the Jamaican defence for Auvray to launch himself at the ball with a flying header but his effort went inches past the post.

The Reggae Boyz took their warning seriously and went straight down the other end and scored. That man again Dale Richards was yet again the thorn in the side for the French and his beautiful cross was met 8 yards out with a firm header that Shaun Francis met and planted into the corner. The young Francis turned and celebrated ecstatically in the corner, and rightly so as he notched his first ever senior goal for Jamaica in this his fourth appearance in the famous yellow shirt.

Jamaica were presented a gift to end this match as a contest when on 62 minutes Richards beat everyone to the ball and cut back for top scorer Shelton who somehow blasted over from 5 yards when he seemed destined to extend his lead in his search for the Digicel Golden Boot award.

Guadeloupe kept searching for the equalizer and the introduction of Collet with his wicked left foot added an attacking impetus that the French lacked in the first half. The Jamaicans responded with a calculated substitute of their own with coach Whitmore bringing on the big target man Johnson who was causing all sorts of trouble up front as he combined well with Shelton. Johnson had a chance to finish it off on 88 minutes after his strength saw him through two challenges before he smashed his shot off the legs of Bus in the Guadeloupe goal.

With time running out Guadeloupe had a free kick 20 yards out and well within striking range for dead ball specialist Jean Luc Lamboude. But when his free kick hit the wall, the Jamaicans broke with speed and after the French dallied in possession Johnson took full advantage of their reluctance to clear the ball and gleefully stroked Jamaica’s second goal home in injury time.

The result now assures the Reggae Boyz of qualification to the semi finals of the Digicel Cup and in top spot from Group I no matter what the other results, will mean their automatic qualification to the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2011.

Guadeloupe must now win their final game against Antigua and hope that Jamaica keep their 100% record against Guyana.

The Digicel Cup Finals will be played from November 26 through to December 5 in Martinique with live television broadcast worldwide courtesy of Digicel as well as live radio coverage, images and updates on www.digicelgroup.com.
For more information, access to match images and live score updates, visit www.digicelgroup.com.

Guadeloupe:

1 Yohann Bus 4 Ulick Lupede 5. Dominique Mocka 6 Stephane Auvray (Captain) 9. Ludovic Gotin (15. Livio Nabab 67 mins)13 Jean Luc Lomboude 18 Eddy Viator 14 Julien Ictoi 17 Larry Hanany (8. Fabien Belson 52 mins)19 Larry Clavier 20 Loic Loval
Coach: Roger Salnot

Jamaica:
13. Dwayne Miller 4 Shavar Thomas (Captain) 6 Jermaine Taylor 7 Lovel Palmer 10 Keammar Daley 11 Dane Richards (2. Richard Edwards 82 mins) 14 Omar Cummings (9. Ryan Johnson 65 mins) 15 Shaun Francis (16. Troy Smith 75 mins) 17 Rodolph Austin 19 Adrian Reid 21 Luton Shelton

Coach: Theodore Whitmore



Referee: Walter Lopez (Guatemala)
Assistant Referee 1: Egbert Paesch ( Aruba)
Assistant Referee 2: Ramon Louisville (Suriname)
Match Commissioner: Hubert Isenia (Curacao)

[Karl]

Thank you.

[Karl]

Boys beat Guadeloupe to reach semis

Boys beat Guadeloupe to reach semis
Also qualify for Gold Cup after 2-0 win
IAN BURNETT @ THE DIGICEL CARIBBEAN CUP in Martinique
Tuesday, November 30, 2010


SAINTE-LUCE, Martinique – Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz placed their off the field problems firmly behind them and blanked Guadeloupe 2-0 in their second game of the 2010 Digicel Caribbean Cup to book their place in the semi-finals as group winners here at the Riviere Pilote Sports Complex last night.

Shaun Francis opened the scoring in the 53rd minute and substitute Ryan Johnson made the game safe in time added to push the Jamaicans to maximum six points in Group I, three ahead of Antigua and Barbuda, who edged Guyana 1-0 in the first game of the double header.
Guadeloupe and Guyana remain at the bottom of the four-team table on one point.

The win came at a price as the Boyz picked up three cautions, with captain Shavar Thomas, Rodolph Austin and Troy Smith being the guilty parties. It was the second for Thomas and Austin, which means that they must serve a one match suspension in what will be a meaningless encounter against Guyana tomorrow night.

The victory also ensured qualification to next summer’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, as the top four teams in the Caribbean Cup advance to that regional showpiece event. Jamaica joined Cuba from Group H, as the early qualifiers for the semis.

In their desperate bid to get something positive from the game, Guadeloupe’s coach Salnot Roger made four changes to the team which started against Guyana on Saturday night, but the strategy seemed to have made no difference as the Jamaicans grabbed an early control of the game, but failed to turn their superiority into anything tangible.

In the very first minute of play, New York Red Bulls’ Dane Richards made his intensions known when he rifled a shot from just outside the penalty area which forced goalkeeper Yohann Bus into a fine save, turning the ball around the right upright.

Then midway into the half, Luton Shelton, who scored two goals in the opening game, scraped the far upright when his neat header flashed by with Bus stranded, after Keammar Daley had provided a teasing cross.

Francis then went close, but had his shot blocked from close range, and Lovell Palmer wasted a great opportunity after Daley split the defence with a well-weighted through ball – the Houston Dynamo midfielder being let down by a poor first touch, giving the Jamaicans nothing to show for their complete dominance of the first 45 minutes.

With Jamaica’s wastefulness, Guadeloupe might have sensed that it was going to be their night and they started the better of the teams early in the second half and had not one but two great opportunities to go ahead through skipper Stephane Auvray, a teammate of Thomas at Kansas City Wizards.

First Auvray’s firm shot from just inside the penalty box was well saved by Dwayne Miller, and a minute later Auvray, from even closer to Miller’s goal frame, directed a header wide of the target when left unmarked during a period of panic from the Jamaican defenders.

Oftentimes teams are made to pay for those kinds of misses, and the French-speaking team did not have long to wait for their judgement, as during one of the brief controlled passing moves by the Jamaicans, the Reggae Boyz went ahead.

The Boyz played the ball through the middle of the park, and eventually found Richards wide right. The speedy winger then used his trickery to get behind the defence and his inviting cross was met by a firm header from Francis, for his first international goal.

Richards, who tormented the much bigger Gwada Boys all night, then provided Shelton with a great opportunity to add to his two-goal tournament tally, but Jamaica’s all-time leading scorer somehow conspired to boot the ball high over the crossbar from seven yards.

As Guadeloupe pressed for an equaliser, Jamaica made the game difficult for themselves by omitting the passing game and gifting possession away cheaply, but in time added substitute Richard Edwards stole possession of the ball deep inside the penalty area after Bus made a mess of a clearance.

The Harbour View midfielder then smartly served Johnson, who strolled home easily from 14 yards between a couple defenders to seal the deal.
In the first match, Antigua and Barbuda stormed back into contention when Gason Gregory, who scored the free-kick against Jamaica in their 1-3 loss on Saturday night, found the winner with another rasping left-footer which wrong-footed goalkeeper Ronson Williams in the 69th minute.

But they had to endure some anxious closing moments as the South Americans threw everything into attack and almost stole a point on a few occasions, the most glaring being when striker Devon Millington headed against the base of the upright, with Molvin James well and truly beaten.

Teams: Jamaica – Dwayne Miller, Shavar Thomas, Adrian Reid, Jermaine
Taylor, Rodolph Austin, Lovell Palmer, Shaun Francis (Troy Smith 75th), Keammar Daley, Dane Richards (Richard Edwards 82nd), Luton Shelton, Omar Cummings (Ryan Johnson 65th).

Booked: Thomas (59th), Austin (76th), Smith (90th)

Subs not used: Richard McCallum, Sergio Campbell, Keneil Moodie, Eric Vernan.

Guadeloupe – Yohann Bus, Ulick Lupede, Dominique Mocka (Cedric Collet 58th), Stephane Auvray, Ludovic Gotin (Livio Nabab 67th), Jean Luc Lamboude, Julien Ictoi, Lery hanany (Fabien Belson 52nd), Eddy Viator, Larry Clavier, Loic loval.

Booked: None

Subs not used: Marius Fausta, Kevin Lacroix, Mathias Babel, Mickael Nicoise.

Referee: Walter Lopez (Guatemala)
Assistant Referees: Ricardo Louisville (Suriname), Egbert Paesch (Aruba)
Fourth Official: Lee Davis (Trinidad and Tobago)


Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz16lgdOUwj

[Mosiah]

Jamaica looked comfortable on the ball and moved it around with confidence and a growing swagger. It seemed more likely they would open the scoring soon but could not under estimate their technically sound opponents.

swaggerific, we're so swaggerific!

[Lionpaw]

my match report goes as follows:

eediat match!

[Hortical]

It was the second for Thomas and Austin, which means that they must serve a one match suspension in what will be a meaningless encounter against Guyana tomorrow night.

Every match is relevant, lets go with a new lineup, give some new ballers run versus Guyana and expect that they will perform on the field.

[Mutty]

all those who threatened not to play unless they get more money didn't play crap they should had stay the hell off the field. they getting more money for less action this is disgrateful

[Muadib]

.against Guadeloupe...

yay !