Molynes rebound with Vere thrashing
Published:Tuesday | March 14, 2023 | 1:32 AM
FORMER NATIONAL youth player, Jason Wright, bagged a first-half brace as Molynes United rebounded from last week’ defeat to Arnett Gardens, registering a 4-0 win over a hapless Vere United at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday.
Wright, topscorer for Jamaica’s u17 team that qualified for the Youth World Cup in 2011 with four goals, had dropped off the radar for some time.
The former Wolmer’s Boys’ School Manning Cup star last played locally for Humble Lion in the 2019-20 season and had a stint with Romanian Club CS Meoveni in the 2021-22 campaign.
However, he spent the following season without a club before returning home to play for Molynes at the start of the season.
Though he started slowly, the stocky striker has been showing his pedigree and his eight goals and four assists are proof of his undeniable quality.
“As a striker I see myself more as a complete player. You can see I do a lot of link-up plays and assists. So for me, it is just to incorporate every player into the game and try to make others better,” he told The Gleaner.
He admitted it was a bit difficult adjusting to the physicality of the league but insists he is just taking things in stride, still with an eye to returning overseas.
“As a player you are always striving for the best. If you are playing, locally, you want to go overseas and that is the ambition of players and me. For the team, it is just to move up the table as much as we can,” he said.
Molynes coach Alex Thomas Thomas said without Nicholas Nelson for much of the season, Wright has been shouldering much of the goalscoring responsibility.
“He is carrying a lot of load, so hats off to him. He is a quality striker. He can play with his back to goal, he links up well and he’s a quality finisher.
“The sky is the limit for him and it is good to see him getting back to his best,” Thomas said.
In the first half, Vere spent a lot of time on the ball, creating a few anxious moments for their opponents but were caught by two classic counter-attacks finished off by the former national youth player in the 13th and 31st minutes.
After the break, Jevaughn Brown skimmed the bar with a free kick before Nelson found the net after showing good skill and composure from 12 yards in the 66th minute.
Brown eventually got his name on the scoresheet with a sumptuous strike in the 74th minute.
“We really started slowly and the backline was just not organised. Nobody marking, nobody talking and nobody tracking and we gave up two early goals,” said losing coach Linval Dixon
“But if we had taken one or two of those chances in the first half, it could have been a different game.”