Coach Ezra Hendrickson called for goals. The Vincy Heat delivered.

Needing not just a win but a flood of goals to revive their World Cup qualifying hopes, St. Vincent and the Grenadines responded in emphatic style with a 6-0 demolition of Anguilla on Wednesday night at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex.

“It’s a match that, going into it, we know exactly what we need to do,” Hendrickson had said on the eve of the match. “First and foremost is win the game, and we need to make up as much of the goal difference that we've found ourselves in at the moment. So that’s going to be the focus.”

And from the outset, the Vincy Heat showed they had taken those words to heart.

Oalex Anderson, the captain who had also urged his teammates to show respect and intensity, opened the scoring in the 20th minute with a composed finish. Four minutes later, he earned a penalty, which Cornelius Stewart converted to make it 2-0.

Micah Joseph added a third in the 59th minute with a well-timed header off a cross from Kirtney Franklyn. Just two minutes later, Kyle Edwards found the net from the centre of the box, pushing the score to 4-0. Anderson grabbed his second and the team’s fifth in the 69th minute with a clinical header, before Franklyn completed the rout in the 85th with a low left-footed strike.

The performance capped off a night that delivered exactly what Hendrickson had hoped for—clinical finishing, attacking intent, and six goals that not only secured the team’s first points of the campaign but helped claw back some of the goal difference from their earlier losses to Suriname and Puerto Rico.

It was also a validation of the team’s structure and mentality, which had shown promise during a 1-1 draw against Jamaica in March—another result that Hendrickson pointed to as a sign of progress.

“The last time out in a competitive match… was against Jamaica. We came out that first game and played really, really well—up until that last 30 seconds,” Hendrickson said earlier this week. “That kind of left a bad taste in our mouths. So the boys are ready to go out again in front of our crowd and do what’s necessary.”

They did just that.

Buoyed by a home crowd Hendrickson had pleaded to show up and be that "12th man," the Vincy Heat turned Arnos Vale into a goal factory on Wednesday night—and reignited hope in their 2026 World Cup qualifying journey.

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