HARBOUR View stifled Waterhouse’s first-half marauding efforts before scoring the only goal for a 1-0 victory in a seventh-round Red Stripe Premier League Monday night game at the Compound.

Xavian Virgo scored for Harbour View in the 41st minute then blotted his copy book in the 68th minute when he was sent packing by referee Karl Tyrel for his second bookable offence.

Harbour View’s coach Harold Thomas was happy with the result. “It was a good result for us. We felt at times that we have not got the results that were due, but knew it will always come, and with this victory, which we welcome, we will continue to move up the table; and the best is yet to come.”

Junior Francis, the Waterhouse head coach, said that he did not plan for this type of result. “I thought our loss was made possible by missing our chances in the earlier part of the game. That is how football is, when you fail to capitalise on your chance you are more than likely to lose the game, which we did.”

Waterhouse began as a run- away train and early on the fleet-footed striker Juvaune Benjamin missed what appeared to be easy scoring chances. The first opportunity come with only the goalkeeper to beat. He booted high over the bar. He had another bite of the cherry, but only to see his firm header going wide of the mark at the first post.

During this period Harbour View weathered the storm admirably as Kemar Lawrence and Montrose Phinn kept the Waterhouse linchpin Jermaine Anderson in check.

Keith Kelly, Nicholas Beckett and Joel Senior probed the Waterhouse defence but it held its own until four minutes to the break when Harbour View won a free kick some 20 yards out at the diamond of the area. The resultant kick found Virgo unmarked on the edge of the six-yard box and he calmly placed a low shot out of the reach of Richard McCallum.

On the resumption Harbour View again looked to have created the only real chance of scoring when the ball kept bubbling around the Waterhouse goal area before it was cleared.