Saint Vincent and the Grenadines vs Jamaica | 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Prelims

Hello everybody and a warm welcome to you from St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the Arnos Vale Stadium. This is the first leg of the CONCACAF Gold Cup prelims tonight as St. Vincent of the Grenadines play host to the Reggae Boys of Jamaica. The referee blows the whistle and this Gold Cup prelim first leg is underway. Here comes Jamaica in transition here. Leon Bailey plays it back through and Nicholson is thwarted. Brilliant save by Christopher. The Reggae Boys from the long pinnock throw, oh it's up for grabs and it's a miss inside the penalty area. Again, oh Bailey's dispossessed here and is the flag going to go up? Yes it is. Stewart a little early, Blake saves it anyway but it was all a moot point as soon as the ball was played through. But he's beaten to it by Jazzy Barnum Bob and it allows St. Vincent and the Grenadines to bring it up the other end here, they get a shot away and Blake makes the save. He was well onside this time, beat the back line, could not beat Blake and it's a corner for Vincey Heat after their best chance of the night. And what a chance. Here's Oleks Anderson, oh gorgeous back heel, here's the shot, oh just wide, how close was that? Absolutely sublime build-up play, Anderson trying to get it back to him by Lemba Kiza but it was cut out and that's the end of the half here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Well for a vast majority of the half Jamaica had the better of it, I think that's fair to say. For the second half, it'll be Jamaica getting the second half started and they'll be going from left to right in the second 45 minutes. Time and space to run into here, Damari Gray cuts it onto his right, but it's very dangerous and the shot is saved by Christopher, brilliant save. Bailey back across, it's Isaac Hayden, it's saved again. He thwarts Gray and then Hayden, well this is exactly where you don't want to have Damari Gray on the ball, he's very dangerous cutting onto his right, strong save from Christopher and now what a takeaway here, Oleks Anderson is in, can he score? Yes he can, once again, Oleks Anderson is the man for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He gives them the lead against Jamaica in the limbs and with 25 minutes to play. Damari Gray on the counter attack and now they need a goal themselves, it's going to be delivered by Damari Gray, it's a free header and goodness gracious, the goalkeepers come up with some amazing saves, this is a jaw-dropping one, it's just a reaction stop. Cefaz to the byline, crossed in for Brown, touched away and then penalty appeals, oh dear, oh dear, it's a penalty. Warner Brown chopped down in the penalty area and the referee's given it, Brown never gives up on it, oh and the challenge comes in, this is an almighty kick here. It's Leon Bailey and Bailey scores, the boys have rescued it here in stoppage time. Leon Bailey equalizes from the penalty spot, it's a massive goal, it's also an away goal, it's a goal that sees Jamaica level the tie and take an advantage on away goals back home with them. Some of that laid on here and it is indeed the last act here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, an incredible twist of fate at the end.