T&T's Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice FC had a sham­bol­ic sec­ond-half de­fen­sive dis­play and fell to a 4-1 loss to Ja­maica's Cav­a­lier FC to re­main win­less af­ter two match­es in Group A of the 2024 Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup at Sabi­na Park in Kingston, Ja­maica on Au­gust 29.

For Cav­a­lier FC, who had T&T's Kaiel Au­vray in its start­ing line-up, Shaquille Stein opened the scor­ing in the 22nd minute when he ran on­to a through ball from Christo­pher Ainsworth be­tween Po­lice FC's Mekeil Williams and Robert Primus to beat ad­vanc­ing goal­keep­er Adri­an Fon­cette with a right-foot­ed strike to his left.

Au­vray al­most put the host fur­ther ahead, but fol­low­ing a surg­ing run in­to the left side of the 18-yard box, his shot on tar­get was de­flect­ed be­hind for a cor­ner by a lung­ing tack­le from in­ter­na­tion­al team-mate Alvin Jones.

Soon af­ter, Jones turned provider when his right-foot­ed cen­tre from a William feed was met by a div­ing head­er from vet­er­an strik­er Kevon Wood­ley to even up the score at 1-1.

On the re­sump­tion, Cav­a­lier FC was quick to set­tle and cre­at­ed a few ner­vous mo­ments for the lack­lus­tre Po­lice de­fence be­fore Stein re­gained the lead for the hosts in the 65th in­side the penal­ty area af­ter Ainsworth again start­ed the build-up through the left side be­fore Dwayne Atkin­son redi­rect­ed the ball in the box to pick up the as­sist.

De­spite be­ing out­played for most parts, Wood­ley al­most got Po­lice lev­el for the sec­ond time in the match but this time his lung­ing right-foot­ed ef­fort from an­oth­er Jones cross, de­flect­ed off the body of goal­keep­er Jea­dine White and on­to the cross­bar. His team­mate Ezekiel Ke­sar al­so hit the cross­bar from a cheeky Alvin Jones cross out­side the left boot.

Cav­a­lier FC put the game be­yond reach when Dwayne Atkin­son penned his name on the score­sheet in the 77th by plac­ing the fin­ish­ing touch on a coun­ter­at­tack, with a first post fin­ish past Fon­cette.

Two min­utes in­to ad­di­tion­al time, Atkin­son scored his sec­ond of the night with a right-foot­ed vol­ley af­ter Fon­cette punched out a cor­ner kick straight in­to his path at the top of the 18-yard box.

With the win, Cav­a­lier FC who blanked fel­low Ja­maicans Mount Pleas­ant 2-0 in the tour­na­ment open­er im­proved to a max­i­mum of six points, three ahead of their lo­cal ri­vals and meet Re­al Hope FA of Haiti in its next chal­lenge on Sep­tem­ber 17 in Kingston.

Po­lice FC, mean­while stayed on one point from their 1-1 draw with Re­al Hope at the same venue last week and will now re­turn home to Ja­maica's Ar­nett Gar­dens FC, the Caribbean Foot­ball Union Club Shield win­ners on Sep­tem­ber 19 fol­lowed by an­oth­er home tie with Mount Pleas­ant on Sep­tem­ber 26.

Nor­eiga and AC Port-of-Spain (AC PoS) will re­turn home to face An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Jen­nings Grenades FC on Sep­tem­ber 17 at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, while Mo­ca will seek to con­tin­ue its un­beat­en start when it hosts Oua­naminthe FC on Sep­tem­ber 18. Last night, Cibao and Grenades were sched­uled to clash.

In Group B, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic duo, Mo­ca FC and Cibao FC share the lead with four points each from two match­es fol­lowed by Haiti's Oua­naminthe FC and T&T cham­pi­ons AC PoS with a point apiece.

This af­ter, AC PoS squan­dered a 2-0 lead in a 3-2 loss away to Mo­ca FC on Wednes­day night af­ter a 1-1 draw with the Haitians in their open­er. AC PoS re­turns home to face An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Jen­nings Grenades FC, the CFU Club Shield run­ners-up on Sep­tem­ber 17 be­fore host­ing Cibao on Sep­tem­ber 24.

At the end of the two round-robin groups, the top two teams will ad­vance to the semi­fi­nals, fol­lowed by the fi­nals of the sec­ond edi­tion of the re­gion­al cup com­pe­ti­tion, which serves as a qual­i­fi­er for the 2025 CON­CA­CAF Cham­pi­ons Cup and crowns the Caribbean’s club cham­pi­on.

Lat­est Con­ca­caf Caribbean stand­ings

Group A

Teams P W D L F A Pts

Cav­a­lier FC 2 2 0 0 6 1 6

Mt Pleas­ant 2 1 0 1 2 3 3

Re­al Hope 1 0 1 0 1 1 1

Po­lice FC 2 0 1 1 2 5 1

Ar­nett Gar­dens 1 0 0 1 1 2 0

Group B

Mo­ca FC 2 1 1 0 3 2 4

Cibao FC 2 1 1 0 2 1 4

Oua­naminthe FC 1 0 1 0 1 1 1

AC PoS 2 0 1 1 3 4 1

Grenades 1 0 0 1 1 2 0

Re­main­ing Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup match­es:

Kick­off times list­ed in ET (lo­cal) and home club list­ed first

Group Stage Week 3

Sep­tem­ber 17:

AC PoS vs Grenades FC - Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, T&T, 6 pm

Cav­a­lier FC vs Re­al Hope FA - Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica, 8 pm

Sep­tem­ber 18:

Mo­ca FC vs Oua­naminthe FC - Es­ta­dio Mo­ca 85, Mo­ca, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, 8 pm

Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 19:

Po­lice FC vs Ar­nett Gar­dens - Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, T&T, 8 pm

Group Stage Week 4

Sep­tem­ber 24:

Oua­naminthe FC vs Grenades - Es­ta­dio Mo­ca 85, Mo­ca, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, 6 pm

AC PoS vs Cibao FC - Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, T&T, 8 pm

Sep­tem­ber 25:

Re­al Hope FA vs Ar­nett Gar­dens - Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica, 8 pm

Sep­tem­ber 26:

Po­lice FC vs Mount Pleas­ant FA - Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, T&T, 6pm

Group Stage Week 5

Oc­to­ber 1:

Grenades vs Mo­ca FC, 6 pm

Cibao FC vs Oua­naminthe FC - Es­ta­dio Cibao FC, San­ti­a­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, 8 pm

Oc­to­ber 3:

Ar­nett Gar­dens vs Cav­a­lier FC, 6 pm

Mount Pleas­ant FA vs Re­al Hope FA - Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica, 8 pm

Semi­fi­nals:

First Legs: Oc­to­ber 22-25

Sec­ond Legs: Oc­to­ber 29-31

Third Place and Fi­nal:

First Leg: No­vem­ber 26-28

Sec­ond Leg: De­cem­ber 3-5