As the KFC Elite League nears the latter rounds, several teams have all to play for in a quest to finish at the top of the League. One such team is Santos FC, who have been impressive thus far in the competition.
Coming off a marvelous 10-0 victory over Ann’s Grove United on Tuesday night, Santos now sit at third place on the points table, with 12 points from 6 games with a +19 goal difference.
Speaking with this publication following Tuesday’s victory, Head Coach Trevor Burnette expressed his thoughts on the team’s performance.
“I enjoyed the game. I think it was a pretty good game and we scored a lot of goals but we still got to go back to the drawing board and we have a little more work to do because when we made the changes in the second half, we could see we lose a little bit in the second half,” Burnette shared.
He added, “So, we want to maintain the same composure as we did in the first half. We have to go back to the practice session and fix those things that we did wrong tonight.”
Scoring ten unanswered goals on Tuesday, coupled with the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) 1-0 loss to Western Tigers, also on Tuesday, have propelled Santos past the Policemen on the points table, only on the account of goal difference.
As such, Burnette touched on the goal difference topic, opining that the league may come down to that being the decider.
Burnette explained, “It’s very important because I think at some tie it might come down to goal differences, so, scoring ten goals tonight (Tuesday) is a big thing, you know.”
The Santos FC Head Coach went on to say about their upcoming game tonight, “And hopefully we maintain it, our next game is a very big game. We have to go back to the drawing board and put some work in.”
With three games to play and currently sitting in third place, the Santos outfit look good to finish in one of the top positions in the league. This was another topic that Burnette shared thoughts on.
The Coach said, “When we started, that was one of our main objectives, to be in the top three and I think we’re teetering right on that line right now, we just got to see about the next couple of games, how that works out,”
“We have to have more composure, I think we lost it a little bit when we start scoring a whole lot of goals and players start playing for themselves instead of for the team. So, we got to fix those teams,” Burnette added, revisiting the work that needs to be done for the team to excel.
Santos FC will take on Western Tigers tonight at the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) National Training Center (NTC), Providence from 20:30hrs. Prior to that clash, Milerock FC and Den Amstel FC will do battle from 18:00hrs.
