Peart’s heaven sent
Coach’s late sub scores last-minute winner for UWI
to prevent goals, he was prepared to do anything to help his team.
“My coach believes in me and I have been putting in the work and he called on me and I showed up. But I went out with the mindset to do anything for my team and it resulted in a goal. I saw that we were few in numbers going forward, so I decided to make that one run and it brought something to the table and I took it and I am grateful,” he said.
CONFIDENCE
The player, who has not started regularly so far this season, hopes this goal will bring more playing time.
“I look ahead with confidence and I just plan to put in the hard work and get something in the end. We are up in the table so the work just need to be continued,” he said.
The first hour of the game was equally contested, as both teams showed good attacking enterprise and created good scoring chances on which they failed to capitalise. However, when the visitors thought they had the advantage with the extra man, the host struck late to grab all three points.
“That (losing a player) was tough and the opponent seized the opportunity and brought on more attacking players. But the team figured we still had it in us to win. So credit to Michael Heaven, who came off the bench to stop the flow of attack down the left. But saw the right moment when he could go forward from right back and score,” he said.
The win lifted UWI to second in the table behind Portmore and level on 17 points with Mount Pleasant, who were down to play Arnett Gardens in a late game last night.
However, Peart was not carried away with their climb up the table.
“Now it’s about accumulating as much points as possible, our position in the table is not that important now, getting the points was the most important thing,” he added.