T&TEC's Dami­an Charles pro­duced a splen­did per­for­mance to help his team to a win­ning start as ac­tion con­tin­ued in the SIS In­dus­tri­al Foot­ball League on Wednes­day.

The mus­cu­lar for­ward showed his prowess and skill as he ma­neu­vered be­tween the Plipde­co de­fense to cre­ate chances and cause dis­ar­ray in their back­line.

Charles opened the scor­ing in the 9th minute with a pin­point fin­ish in the top right cor­ner past goal­keep­er Kwe­si Grif­fith. T&TEC had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to go two goals up six min­utes lat­er when Nolan Mo­hammed whipped in a fiery low cross but Charles failed to make con­tact with the ball against an open goal and had to watch it go out for a goal kick.

Plipde­co re­spond­ed with a few hope­ful strikes from out­side the area but strug­gled to con­nect their pass­es and build mo­men­tum as they end­ed the first half trail­ing one goal to nil. On the re­sump­tion, Charles made up for the clear cut chance he missed ear­li­er, bag­ging a sec­ond goal to sink Plipde­co in­to fur­ther trou­ble.

Goal­keep­er Grif­fith would de­ny Charles his hat trick a cou­ple min­utes lat­er as he tipped a long range ef­fort just over to cross­bar to keep his team in the game. Grif­fith's ef­fort sparked a re­vival amongst his team­mates as Plipde­co start­ed to be more cre­ative and at­tack­ing on both flanks and were just­ly re­ward­ed when Ke­ston Belfor slammed home Plipde­co's first of the match.

The game was set­up for an ex­cit­ing fin­ish and so it would be as Plipde­co pressed for an equalis­er and T&TEC de­fend­ed like their lives de­pend­ed on it. Aja­mu Mat­ter­son, who scored a brace for Plipde­co in their first match on Mon­day, led the charge but un­for­tu­nate­ly saw his ef­forts go ag­o­niz­ing­ly wide on a few oc­ca­sions. T&TEC would hold firm and gath­er a valu­able three points putting Plipde­co un­der im­mense pres­sure hav­ing drawn their first fix­ture.

In the sec­ond fix­ture of the day, the Methanol Di­vi­sion of In­dus­tri­al Plant Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (IP­SL MX) took on Yara in a match where lit­tle op­por­tu­ni­ties and spaces were found ear­ly on. The first half was a vir­tu­al mid­field bat­tle with both teams los­ing pos­ses­sion reg­u­lar­ly re­sult­ing in shots from out­side the box.

Both teams would have been dis­ap­point­ed as they head­ed in at half time with the score 0-0. MX and Yara seemed as though they re­ceived some stern words from their man­agers at the in­ter­val as they came out full throt­tle at the start of the 2nd half with both teams go­ing head to head and punch for punch, it was just a mat­ter of time be­fore one suf­fered a dead­ly blow. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, it was Yara to con­cede when Ter­rence Lon­don's long range ef­fort slammed in­to the low­er left cor­ner to give MX the lead.

This ini­ti­at­ed a string of at­tempts from3 teams as Yara pushed for an equal­iz­er and MX sought that all im­por­tant ex­tra goal to seal the match. It was not un­til the fi­nal play of the match that Yara stole vic­to­ry from MX when Ke­ston Davis drilled an ef­fort from about 10 me­tres out to rup­ture the back of the net. Yara erupt­ed in cel­e­bra­tions as the ref­er­ee blew the whis­tle to sig­nal the end of the match.

MX would be dis­ap­point­ed hav­ing lost two points due to a mo­men­tary lapse in con­cen­tra­tion and will look to re­bound in their next match against Nu Iron Un­lim­it­ed.