Oilers Tops LFA Premiership!
-Thrashes IE 2-0
-As BYC Suffers Defeat

  By Roland M. Mulbah

Sensational LPRC Oilers continues wooing fans of Liberian football as the gold and black outfit thrashed Liberian’s darling football club, Invincible Eleven (IE) 2-0 at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium (ATS) in Monrovia as the Liberia Football Association (LFA) 2009 National championship heats up.

Net buster Alex Whitmore opened the score line from a scrambled ball as Gabriel Johns’ guided side went ahead in the 25^th minute of the first half.

Later in the 39^th minute, speedy winger Johnny Blelee increased the score with the first half ending the oil boys’ favor.

Back from recess, the match was now considered one way traffic as IE took lion share of the possession, but missed several goal scoring chances.

Captain Joseph Kelleh Hina came closed to rotating the score line, but thanks to the wood bar as Oilers’ goaltender Saylee had no answer..

The yellow boys could have frustrated Oilers in the dying moments of the duel with three possible goal scoring chances coming to the sun shine yellow boys’ strikers , but oilers’ gloves man in the form of the burly Saylee denied the sun shine yellow boys as the match ended 2-0 in the gold and black outfit’s favor.

The result saw IE played nine matches so far this season with only a win and the team is placed 15^th on the LFA 18 team’s premier log with just nine points hanging around the relegation zone.

Fans of IE were seen in complete disarray after the match with some threatening players.

After the match, Oilers coach Johns was glade and said “the result today shows that what we have been working towards is coming to pass gradually.

“The result also showed our supremacy in the current LFA premiership chase. We dominated the match in all departments and we want to continue such as the league progresses,” the former Liberian International midfielder noted.

Meanwhile, BYC suffered her third defeat of the season after being edged 2-1 by rejuvenated Watanga FC at the Nancy Doe Stadium in Kakarta, Margibi County, but the LFA youthful premier outfit is still a force to compete for the LFA premiership crown.

BYC has now been toppled by Oilers who sank IE on Sunday also.

At the Unification Town pitch in Margibi County also, Gedi and Sons and bottom of the table Devereux FC settled to a 2-2 draw, while Jasmine Rangers secured a 2-1 victory over Monrovia Club Breweries at the D. Tweh pitch in New Kru town in Monrovia.