Lowly-placed Barbican FC held fifth-placed Cavalier SC to an exciting 0-0 draw in a Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) game at Stadium East on Monday night to the satisfaction of coach Raymond Beckford.

“It was just the result we came for,” the Barbican coach beamed. “We could have lost the game after giving up a penalty, but in the same breath, we too could have won as we also had our chances to score, but like Cavalier, wasted them,” Beckford said.

While the Barbican coach expressed delight with the result that pushed him above the relegation zone on 14 points, Cavalier’s Rudolph Speid was far from amused. “While playing very good football, the missing of goals continues to plague our progress.

“It is a game that we should have won, but as you saw, the two misses by Claudius Blackburn in the first half — one a penalty (and) the other when he struck the cross bar — are indications of how we suffer from not making our goal-scoring opportunities count,” he mourned.

Teams:

Cavalier SC — Kadeem Davis, Dwayne Holmes, Girvon Brown, Kimoy Simpson, Jeffrey Grant, Al Nesbeth, Donovan Alveranga, Davion Alves (Jermaine Ricketts 70th), Nicholas Hamilton, Claudius Blackburn (Kemar Shaw 83rd), Davion Roberts (Javanie Mitchell 72nd,

Subs not used: Liston James, Shomoyo Morgan, Raheem Ellis

Booked: Alveranga (32nd), Nesbeth (65th)

Barbican FC — Nicholas Campbell, Ramone McGregor, Jermaine Parris, Akino Bailey, Shawn Lawes, Jodaine Redwood (Dadrian Dixon 73rd), Shavon Charlton, Shennar Parkinson (Dean Phillips 73rd), Kemar Thomas, Roy Forbes (Shaquille Lewis 52nd), Keno Simpson

Subs not used: Mario McDonald, Jamhoy Green, Andrew McDonald, Ashek Taylor

Booked: Charlton (70th)

Referee: Courtney Campbell

Assistant Referees: Lloyd Reader, Stephanie Dale-Easy

Fourth Official: Odette Hamilton

Match Commissary: Garfield McDonald

— Hurbun Williams