The Bajan Tridents were broken for the second time by Guyana on Sunday night.
Guyana swept their two-match friendly international football series with Barbados when they came from two goals down to win the final match 3-2 at the Guyana National Stadium in Providence.
After losing Friday’s first match 1-0 to an 87th-minute goal by Guyana’s captain Christopher Bourne, Barbados made an excellent start in their bid to level the series.
Barbados went ahead in the very first minute with Maradona Lavine scoring, compliments some sloppy goalkeeping from Guyana’s custodian Oswald Cornette.
Riviere Williams made it 2-0 in the 15th minute against a Guyana side which included a number of their Under-23 players who will be representing the country in the Caribbean Football Union’s Olympic Qualifying competition that kicks off next month.
He capitalized on some ordinary goalkeeping again by Cornette as well as miscommunication at the back to drill home his shot.
The Golden Jaguars pulled back a goal in the 28th minute with a beautiful free-kick through the six-man Barbados wall by Reshawn Sandiford, which eluded goalkeeper Omari Eastmond after a handled ball just outside the box.
In the second half, Guyana replaced Cornette with Akel Clarke and were soon awarded a penalty in the 61st minute which was converted by National Under-20 captain Colin Nelson, who now campaigns in Trinidad and Tobago.
United States-based Anani Mohamed got the winner for Guyana eight minutes after he came on, following some excellent work in midfield by another Trinidad-based player Vurlon Mills.
Mills received the ball at left midfield and unbelievably dribbled past four Barbados players before slipping the ball through to Mohamed, who blasted a powerful right foot shot past the advancing Eastmond.
Barbados will have a chance to avenge those defeats on home soil when they play Guyana at the National Stadium on Sunday to bring a climax to the Bradley University Football Festival, which started last night.
Before that the Bajan Tridents will play Bradley at 8 p.m. tomorrow, followed by a clash against St Vincent on Friday at 8:30 p.m.
