Yesterday’s final of the Lucozade Sport Goal Shield at the Hasely Crawford Stadium was not, in my opinion, a typical Caledonia AIA versus Defence Force game.
The venue was familiar, the coaches were familiar, the teams were familiar but it was difficult in my view to recognize the tactics employed on the night.
In the first five minutes of the match, Caledonia got their noses in front thanks to a well taken penalty. But for the rest of the first half, the Morvant/Laventille men never found any consistency as their normal passing game was absent.
Not surprisingly, they hardly posed any problems for Defence Force up until the half-time whistle.
In the first five minutes of the game, Defence Force had two good goal scoring opportunities and they surprised everyone who knows these two teams well by controlling play territorially for most of the first half. It was they who took the game to their opponents and they deserved their equaliser, which came five minutes before half time.
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