St David’s 6 Inter BDA 0

St David’s striker Kevin Edmund bagged a second-half hat-trick to kill off determined Carlsberg League outfit Inter BDA and progress in the FA Challenge Cup at Lord’s on Saturday.

The home side dominated for large periods of the first half but struggled to penetrate thee away side’s solid mid block, despite opening the scoring inside ten minutes from a goalkeeping mistake.

St David’s coach Aaron Lugo was pleased by watching his side’s dominance but said there was still some things to work on

“We have to work on playing against low blocks,” he said.

“Our first goal came from a mistake ands Inter are a good team overall. They have some quick and technical players and they gave us a go.”

The first goal came when the home side won a free kick on the left and Inter goalkeeper Jack Ferris fumbled his attempted catch before Kurtis Minors bundled in.

Warriors struggled to penetrate the away side early as a result of a combination of slow tempo and lack of fluidity in possession. This led to a long period of scrappy football in the breezy conditions.

Inter BDA grew in confidence as the half wore on and forced stand-in St David’s goalkeeper Jamere Jervis into his first significant save of the game seven minutes before the break.

Attacking duo Thales Francis and Shaquille Dill combined just outside the penalty area and Dill attempted to roll an effort past Jervis. However, Jervis did well to get down and make a reflex stop to keep the home side in front at the interval.

St David’s turned on the style in the second half, doubling their lead within 90 seconds of the restart. Edmund made the final pass from a fast break, perfectly weighting a whipped ball across the pitch for Christian King to powerfully sidefoot past Ferris at the near post.

The purple and black completely killed the contest with two more goals in three minutes just before the hour, the first two for the clinical Edmund.

First, a free kick struck Christian Lugo-Elibox before coming back for Edmund to swivel and fire into the near post. Then Lugo chipped a pass over the high line of Inter for Edmund to compose himself and lob the rushing Ferris from about eight yards.

Warriors continued to pounce on the space that their inferior opponents offered and Edmund made the pass of the game to nutmeg an Inter defender but Christian King rattled the crossbar with his subsequent finish from just outside the box.

Edmund completed his hat-trick five minutes after the hour mark, capitalising on solid pressure by the home side as Inter tried to play out from the back before finishing past Ferris.

Youngster Tyree Fox scored his first senior goal with just under 20 minutes remaining to complete the rout and coach Lugo was pleased with his young players.

“I had a chance to introduce a few under-18 players for exposure,” Lugo said. “Happy for Tyree who scored.”

Inter never gave up creating openings on the attack in the final stages despite the scoreline and Jervis made his only other meaningful save from Scott Redmond’s powerful effort.

Subs Diego McCallan and Jarreau Daniels had the best chances for Warriors to further extend the whitewash.

Scorers

St David’s: Minors 6; King 47; Edmund 56, 58, 65; Fox 73

TEAMS

St Davids: J Jervis, C Lugo Elibox, K Butterfield, K Minors, Cody Richardson, M Proctor, K Edmund, T Burgess, C King, D Laws, J Wales. Substitutes: T Fox, Corey Richardson, J Dill, D McCallan, J Daniels, D Waldron, N Butterfield.

Inter BDA: J Ferris, S Wehmeyer, C Urrutia, E Frederick, S Aqni, S Redmond, R McKittrick, S Derys, T Francis, O Bangole, S Dill. Substitutes: D Armas, A Basith, K Medeiros, D Joell, M Vernala, C Roque, D Guglielmucci.

Referee: T Ming