Smith rues missed opportunities in Dunbeholden’s loss to Arnett
DUNBEHOLDEN FC Assistant Coach Ricardo Smith had no answers to questions as to how his team lost to nine-man Arnett Gardens on Sunday.
Boasting one of the most lethal attacking duos in the league, Dunbeholden were held scoreless by a team that played three quarters of the game with 10 players and the last quarter with nine.
Smith, with a shrug of the shoulders, said that the coaching staff did as much as they could to change the situation on the pitch.
“We tried to make adjustments after they got the cards. We put more in attack, but we didn’t get the goal, it didn’t work, we just have to come again,” he said.
Both Atapharoy Bygrave and Peter Mcgregor were guilty of glaring misses which left Smith almost speechless.
“I can’t give an excuse for them. They both got chances. We worked on some things in the training and they came out and they were in the position where we put them to get the chances, they just didn’t finish.”
He refused to bash his strikers however, blaming the result on it being a bad day for his front two.
“They are always finishing for us. Today (Sunday) is probably an off day for them, a bad day, we can’t kill them.
“We got chances, Bygrave got a few, Mcgregor, I don’t know what happened with him; I would have to as him. They got their chances, they were a little bit rusty, a little bit slow. Probably that cost us for not scoring.”
The missed opportunities has led to a big missed opportunity for Dunbeholden who failed to capitalise on the absence of the league leaders Waterhouse and a chance to go three points clear at the top.
“Yes, it is a missed opportunity. Whether they were here or not, we would have played before them and we would have gotten three points ahead of them, but it didn’t happen,” Smith admitted.
Dunbeholden now have two weeks to fix whatever is broken as their next scheduled game is against Cavalier who are also away playing in the Caribbean Club Championships.