By S. Siapha Mulbah
After a couple of unwanted draws and frustrating performances by Bea Mountain Football Club, the team has restored hopes of making a come-back to its fans.
On Monday March 13, 2023, fans were again in jubilation cheering the Gold Boys against relegation zone holder Nimba United to their biggest win in the second phase of the Liberia Football Association ongoing national first division league.
The match which ended 5-0 for Bea Mountain woke its fans to believe that there is still more room for their favorite team to get to the drawing board crafting strategies to win the league.
The Grand Cape Mount based National First Division side since defeating current defending champion Watanga on Sunday, February 5, 2023 at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium 2-1 suffered four consecutive draws.
Thought Coach Robert Lartey and his boys have not tasted defeat in the league season, the number of straight draws cost them to drop the top spot on the league chart which is tantamount to a loss of the championship.
The Gold Boys were in control as league-leaders all through the closure of the first phase comfortably ahead of LISCR and Watanga and had been the two most contending teams.
The last day of celebration from fans on behalf of Bea Mountain was Match 15 at the ATS where the defending champion lost all three points despite taking an early lead from the start of the match.
Against Jubilee FC in the following match, the pride of Grand Cape Mount County slipped from winning ways and started accumulating single points by drawing games and sharing points with some of those that saw defeat in the first leg.
In a post-match conversation, Coach Lartey then attributed their first draw in the second phase which was against the Church Boys Jubilee FC as a serious setback to Bea Mountain and promised to get back to winning other matches.
He said though the team was then on top of the table every three points were important to collect and lower future pressure in making it possible to become a league champion.
It did not happen as he said, when the Shipping Boys improved their quest to clinch the championship. LISCR held the Gold Boys to their next remarkable draw in the second phase reducing the points tallied on the league table.
The last two draws came against Freeport FC and Nimba Kwado as they lost total control of the league table to LISCR.
