The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super 16 year-end tournament will now have its remaining matches played at the Leonora Stadium. The inclement weather has caused the organisers of the Corona Beer sponsored tournament to place all remaining matches at the facility on the West Coast of Demerara.
Action was initially set to continue on Boxing Day at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) with Fruta Conquerors battling Buxton United and Grove Hi Tech running against the Guyana Police Force FC but were shifted to Leonora on Wednesday night.
Denzel Fordyce
Those matches would have marked the end of the quarter-finals since Milerock and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have earned their semi-final berths already.
On Christmas Day, the two sides would have played at the Mackenzie Sports Club and secured victories over Den Amstel and Winners Connection respectively.
Milerock defeated their West Demerara opponents 3-1 with Denzel Fordyce scoring a brace. He had scored in the 32nd and 53rd and got assistance from Lorenzo Miller who scored in injury time (90+2). Gideon Payne had initially levelled the scores at the start of the second half (47th minute) after Milerock had a 1-0 lead at the interval.
In the other fixture, which went down to the wire, the army won 3-2 on sudden death penalty kicks after the match ended 2-2 after full-time.
Kenard Sampson (11th) had given GDF the lead until Marley Davidson levelled the scores in the 28th. Travis Henry returned the lead to the soldiers in the 58th but in the dying minutes (89th) Davidson again found the critical equalizer.
Teams are playing for the grand cash prize of $2million, while the losing finalist will receive $1million, third place $500,000 and fourth $250,000. The semi-finals are slated for Friday while the final is carded for January 1.
