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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Jamaica and Haiti among visiting teams winning

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Sport Desk
405 days ago
20240611
Concacaf Qualifiers.

Concacaf Qualifiers.

MI­A­MI– Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) No 1 Ja­maica and No 2 Haiti were two of the six vis­it­ing teams that won their lat­est match­es on Sun­day in the Con­ca­caf qual­i­fiers for the 2026 Fi­fa World Cup.

It was the sec­ond win for both the Ja­maicans, al­so known as the Reg­gae Boyz, and the Haitians, al­so known as the Grenadiers, and three oth­ers – all Cen­tral Amer­i­can sides – while it was the first for El Sal­vador.

AT WIND­SOR PARK: Ja­maica kept pace with Group E lead­ers Guatemala when Shamar Nichol­son scored a brace to lead them to a 3-2 win against hosts Do­mini­ca in Roseau.

The re­sult ap­peared to be clos­er than re­al­i­ty af­ter the Do­mini­cans scored twice in the fi­nal 10 min­utes to make the Ja­maicans sweat to hold on to the win.

Nichol­son struck the first goal of the match in the 30th minute with a poke of his right foot to help the ball past goal­keep­er Glen­son Prince and he got his sec­ond from the penal­ty spot in the 79th minute.

In be­tween, Ka­heim Dixon used a bit of in­di­vid­ual skill in­side the penal­ty box to cre­ate space and scored to give the Reg­gae Boyz a 2-0 lead at half-time be­fore Nichol­son ex­tend­ed their lead.

But Javid George trapped a long pass from Savio Anselm and beat Ja­maica goal­keep­er Jah­mali Waite in the 82nd minute be­fore Troy Jules struck from a free kick six min­utes lat­er to raise the stakes in the clos­ing min­utes – but the vis­i­tors re­mained stead­fast.

AT WILDEY TURF: Haiti stayed in step with Group C lead­ers Cu­raçao when they con­demned hosts Bar­ba­dos to a sec­ond suc­ces­sive de­feat with a 3-1 win in Bridgetown.

The Haitians led 2-0 at half-time af­ter Louicius Deed­son struck from short dis­tance in the 12th minute and Markhus Lacroix hit a left-foot­ed strike to­wards the top net­ting.

Niall Reid-Stephen short­ened the deficit in the 73rd minute with his sec­ond goal of the qual­i­fiers, but

Bryan Labissiere re­stored the ad­van­tage when he fin­ished off a coun­ter­at­tack­ing move in the 84th minute.

AT THE NA­TION­AL SPORTS CEN­TRE: Six dif­fer­ent play­ers scored, and Group A lead­ers Hon­duras pound­ed hosts Bermu­da 6-1 in the most lop­sided re­sult on Match Day 4 in Hamil­ton.

The match looked to be a gen­uine con­test when Unit­ed States-based mid­field­er Zeiko Lewis scored from the penal­ty af­ter Kole Hall was brought down in­side the box to equalise for the Bermu­di­ans in the fourth minute of first half stop­page time.

Kevin Ar­ria­ga had giv­en the Hon­durans the lead af­ter 15 min­utes with a strike near the penal­ty mark­er, and the first half end­ed 1-1.

But Hon­duras start­ed to im­pose their will in the sec­ond half, and David Ruiz re­stored their lead in the 49th minute with a strike in front of goal, con­nect­ing on a cross from Luis Pal­ma.

Ed­win Ro­driguez se­cured his sec­ond goal of the cam­paign in the 53rd minute to ex­tend the lead, and Luis Ve­ga opened his tal­ly in the 56th minute with a hit off a re­bound fol­low­ing a Hon­duras cor­ner kick.

Andy Na­jar added his name to the score­sheet in the 62nd minute when he placed the ball just in­side the right post, and Bryan Rochez com­plet­ed the rout in the first minute of sec­ond half stop­page time with a left-foot­ed strike from in­side the penal­ty arc.

Luis Pal­ma end­ed the night with three as­sists, all of which came in the first three goals from the vis­i­tors.

AT THE KI­RANI JAMES STA­DI­UM: Group B lead­ers Cos­ta Ri­ca kept their foot on the ped­al af­ter tak­ing a two-goal lead at half-time and brushed aside Grena­da 3-0 in St George’s.

Man­fred Ugalde latched on­to a through ball from Bran­don Aguil­era to give the Ticos the lead af­ter nine min­utes, and a left-foot­ed fin­ish from Al­varo Zamo­ra pushed them fur­ther ahead af­ter 34 min­utes.

Ger­ald Tay­lor put the fin­ish­ing touch on a short pass from Ugalde in the 70th minute to com­plete the rout.

AT THE FRANK ISSED STA­DI­UM: Sec­ond half strikes from Rafael Te­ja­da and Nel­son Bonil­la pow­ered

El Sal­vador to a 3-1 win against St Vin­cent & the Grenadines in Group F in the Suri­name cap­i­tal of Para­mari­bo.

The match was lev­el 1-1 at half-time af­ter Jairo Hen­riquez put the Sal­vado­rans ahead with a rock­et from out­side the box in the 10th minute, and Unit­ed States-based for­ward Oalex An­der­son head­ed in from a cor­ner kick in the 43rd minute to bring SVG lev­el.

Rafael Te­ja­da re­gained the lead for El Sal­vador on the hour af­ter a build-up from Jairo Hen­riquez and Fran­cis Castil­lo, and Bonil­la con­nect­ed on a long cross from Nel­son Blan­co in the 83rd minute to seal the deal for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can side.

AT THE NA­TION­AL FOOT­BALL STA­DI­UM: In sim­i­lar fash­ion, José Fa­jar­do and José Ro­drí­guez pro­pelled Pana­ma to a 3-1 win against Montser­rat in their Group D match in the Nicaragua cap­i­tal of Man­agua.

The match was lev­el 1-1 af­ter Jo­vani Welch struck from long dis­tance in the 40th to give the Pana­ma­ni­ans the lead, but Kaleem Straw­brige-Si­mon equalised in the 48th with his at­tempt from out­side the box.

But Fa­jar­do put Pana­ma in the lead again in the 61st minute when he con­nect­ed with a head­er to a ser­vice from Ro­driguez, who added his name to the score­sheet in the 70th minute with a head­er at the left post.

Pana­ma im­proved to six points from two match­es and keep pace with lead­ers Nicaragua.

CMC

Re­sults

GROUP A

NA­TION­AL SPORTS CEN­TRE, Hamil­ton, Bermu­da

BERMU­DA lost to HON­DURAS 1-6 (1-1)

BER: Zeiko Lewis 45th minute (+4)

HON: Kervin Ar­ria­ga 15, David Ruiz-Ochoa 49, Ed­win Ro­driguez 53, Luis Ve­ga 56, Andy Ná­jar 62, Bryan Róchez 90(+1)

GROUP B

KI­RANI JAMES STA­DI­UM, St George’s, Grena­da

GRENA­DA lost to COS­TA RI­CA 0-3 (0-2)

Man­fred Ugalde 9, Ál­varo Zamo­ra 34, Ger­ald Tay­lor 70

GROUP C

WILDEY TURF, Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos

BAR­BA­DOS lost to HAITI 1-3 (0-2)

BRB: Niall Reid-Stephen 73

HAI: Louicius Deed­son 12, Markhus Lacroix 45(+1), Bryan Labissiere 84

GROUP D

NA­TION­AL STA­DI­UM, Man­agua, Nicaragu

MONTSER­RAT lost to PANA­MA 1-3 (0-1)

MSR: Kaleem Straw­bridge 49

PAN: Jo­vani Welch 41, José Fa­jar­do 62, José Ro­drí­guez 71

GROUP E

WIND­SOR PARK, Roseau, Do­mini­ca

DO­MINI­CA lost to JA­MAICA 2-3 (0-2)

DMA: Javid George 83, Troy Jules 89

JAM: Shamar Nichol­son 31, 80, Ka­heim Dixon 43

GROUP F

FRANKLIN ISSED STA­DI­UM, Para­mari­bo, Suri­name

ST VIN­CENT & THE GRENADINES lost to EL SAL­VADOR 1-3 (1-1)

VIN: Oalex An­der­son 43

SLV: Jairo Hen­riquez 10, Rafael Te­ja­da 60, Nel­son Bonil­la 83

CMC


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