I listen to the radio and Andre Baptiste made me laugh, he was hitting the right notes. Lincoln Phillips also made some very good comments. One thing LP said though that made me vex. He said he was happy with the team selection, seems like he was trying to save Maturana or maybe he eh know football. All he talked about how happy we was that Jones was benched.
How the hell could you be happy because Jones was bench, Jones and Stern/Scotland would have been the better combo out there to start because of these.
1. Jones maynot score, but he draw defenders out opening space for the next attacker. He run at defence unlike Stern and Scotland who depend on service.
2. Stern and Scotland are basically of the same style therefore they cannot compliment each other. They cannot work off each other.
3. Everyone in CONCACAF is afraid or aware (very much) of Jones this is why we either using him to draw fouls around the box as he is good with headers, bring defenders out, create harvoc or play under T&T striker in a 4-3-1-2 formation, his ability give us plenty options.
4. Why do our strikers take so long to shoot, why ? shoot, it might go it, or may not, but something good might come out of it. They wait tell they get into the box to shoot, come on man, shoot de ball. All de goals scoring in our WCQ are mostly from midfield. If we dont shoot, how can we score.
We team played with no togetherness and the long high balls does KILL us...... a simple one touch and run for de return, work off the ball also will help us so much.
Play players in they rightfull position, shoot more, from inside or outside, run for the pass dont just stand there waiting for it, find an open space, back up your partner, we need to play it compact, get the ball out of defence and not give away free kicks close to our box, dont pass the ball on the top of our the penalty box, keep the ball on the ground.
My line up for Honduras would have been.
Williams
Wolfe, Lawrence, Thomas, Pacheco
Edwards, Hyland, Noel, Aklie
John, Jones
But then again, I'm not the coach, we coach is a horse dentist.
Nothing wrong if you have your favorites, but sometimes your favorites are the ones that gets you in trouble. Any body could see some of the weakness our team showed continuously, they are the easiest to scout. I guess we dont scout so how would we know. Maturana says so...
We going to USA allyuh. Bring more Mats.
My view.Jan Williams - Not commanding his area enough, but made some good saves. Played decent.
Dennis Lawrence - A true captain.
Keyeno Thomas - Worked good with Lawrence.
Aklie Edwards - Did his part well, was a bit more happy with him that all of his previous games.
Wolfe - Held the right back pretty decent, but his partnership with Edwards is not bearing fruits. Not sure if he was really tested though. Both him an Edwards have to build a partnership as to much space between them on the field and this allows the opponent arces to room.
Edwards - Good baller, but didn't get good passes to him and was frustrated by the service he got. Shoot Carlos, shoot more....
Leon - Did he play ? this player needs to step up to the next level, even Claude Makelele did it as a DM at Chelsea. Leon plays with one speed and one way whether we winning or loosing.
Theobald - Why, why, I had so much faith in this guy once, what happened ? if he stage fright ? one day he can be such a good player, de next day he playing like Palos.....
Daniel - If he dont find a club soon he should get relegated to the T&T bench. Another good talent being used out of position. His defensive capabilities is very worrying and yet Mats using him on the left wing every game, maybe USA will give Mats the answers he needs. Donovan on the wing will bury them if we dont take precaution.
Stern - The better of the two forwards. Worked hard, but please take more shots.. yuh big and strong.
Scotland - Made 2 nice shots but apart from that, he didn't do much.
Hyland - Came on and did a great job. He brough energy and options to T&T when he came up, the team lifted compare to the dull game when Theobald was on. I guess signing with a club really helped him out, hope Daniel follow suit.
Latapy - Came on a played a little to deep but made a difference, not much.
Jones - His controlling and trapping of he ball lets him down. But still a good option to have on the field. Take more shoots Kenwyne... take more, yuh powerful... use it....
Why do we allow teams to feel right at home when they visit T&T !!!!!!!
We play at home like we are the visitors....