Reggae Boy Gray scores winner, then gets injured
Published:Thursday | November 4, 2021 | 2:51 PM
LONDON (CMC):
REGGAE BOY Andre Gray’s participation in Jamaica’s two World Cup qualifiers later this month was left in doubt, after the striker scored Queens Park Rangers’ (QPR) winner at Cardiff on Wednesday night, before an injury forced him off after 54 minutes.
Gray netted his third QPR goal of the season in the 37th minute as the Londoners moved back into the English Championship play-off spots with a deserved 1-0 win over a lacklustre Cardiff City in the Welsh capital.
Gray, who was forced off after a knock early in the second half and replaced by Charlie Austin, was earlier named in Jamaica’s 24-member squad for their World Cup qualifiers away to El Salvador on November 12 and home to the United States four days later.
It was against the US that Gray made his Reggae Boyz debut in March – a 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Americans in a friendly.
The Reggae Boyz, whose only appearance at the World Cup Finals came at France 1998, are sixth in the eight-team final round of CONCACAF qualifying with five points from six matches.