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Following their first win of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) season last weekend, Tivoli Gardens (TG) coach, Philip Williams, is hoping to continue in the same vein when they oppose Mount Pleasant in today’s feature match at the UWI-JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence. Kick-off time is 3:15 p.m.
In the opening match of the double-header at 1 p.m., Waterhouse entertain Harbour View.
Tivoli have one win, three draws and two defeats in their six matches and Williams thinks this will be their toughest test to date.
Although confident of matching up to the league leaders, he believes they have to improve in front of goal to claim a second successive win.
“Our confidence has improved since getting the first win,” he said. “When we look back at earlier games, we see that they have been very close and we haven’t been losing badly.
“We are confident and it is just a matter of getting things right in the final third. We will be competitive. In our games before the last one, we got a lot of chances. We were able to convert one in our last game and fortunately that turned out to be the winner.
“We have been good in defence but at the business end, we need to get more in terms of converting the chances. We want another striker as productive or nearly as productive as a young Warner Brown,” he stated.
He said the Mount Pleasant squad is deep, strong and plays good football and they cannot allow the St Ann-based team to settle into their game.
“We cannot allow them to get comfortable. We will have to press them all over the pitch. That will take a lot of concentration but we are up to the task, so hopefully the guys will turn up on the day.
“Another win could take us up the table, so we are not looking behind us. We want to put a couple of wins together and move away from the bottom pack and put ourselves in a better position,” he said.
Mount Pleasant coach, Wally Downes, said although the west Kingston-based Tivoli Gardens didn’t have the best start to the season, he believes they are improving with every game and will give them the respect they deserve.
“We know they are very mobile and very physical. We will have to be at our best. We will have to be strong and clinical and take the game to them.
“We need to play our game. Take control from early, dominate the territory and make sure that when those chances come along, we put them away,” he said.
Mount Pleasant lead the table with 17 points, while Tivoli are in eighth spot with six points.
In the opening match, second-place Waterhouse (14) will be hunting their first win in three games when they face off against sixth-place Harbour View (nine points).
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