Captain Dyllan John produced a heroic performance to lead 10 man Jamaica College to a determined 2 nil win over Mcgrath High at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Friday to book a semi final spot in ISSA Champions Cup.
John struck in the 60th and 90+2 minutes to lead the "True Blues" to the win.
However JC had to overcome an early adversity after Goalkeeper Tawayne Lynch was controversially shown a red card in the 16th minute.
Referee Christopher Mason deemed Lynch handled the ball, despite protests from the JC bench and supporters, and subsequent replays that suggested the ball had come off his chest while he was still inside his 18-yard box.
Following the controversy, substitute goalkeeper Adriano Kitson stepped in to fill the breach as Jamaica College were forced to play the remainder of the match with 10 players.
JC despite the numerical disadvantage reorganized defensively to ward off a Mcgrath team that smelt blood and sensed an upset but the boys from Old Hope Road ensured they went to the half time interval at nil all.
Both teams had half chances, but John then took matters into his own hands, shrugged off two defenders and sent a pinpoint right footer into the far corner 17 minutes after the break.
Following a few more tense moments, a confident JC stuck to the task and sealed victory from another classic finish from the captain in stoppage time.
JC's Head coach Davion Ferguson speaking in a post game interview said: “I think the referee made a very questionable call, but the boys didn’t drop their heads. At halftime we told them that this is what we have been working on, and they dug deep, pressed McGrath a little higher, and I think that’s what paid off for us at the end. So even though it was 11 versus 10, we were still even in the sense of our quality superiority, and we made it count in the second half,” Ferguson said in a post-game interview.
Ferguson's opposite counterpart Jermaine Thomas commended his players:
“I thought we played well; we just never scored. I thought we created several goal-scoring opportunities...easy ones, and we stopped them from playing through the channels and breaking the lines easy. So they were playing long balls for the entire game; it is just that we never scored the chances that we got,”
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