Reality Check
Since the iceland game I hearing people complaining about our lack of pace. Supposedly we are a more latin american
team and should be playing pacy football. Anybody who been watching us play in the last 15 years should realise that next to teams like Costa Rica, at our fastest (with men like Dwarika and wise in their prime on at the same time) we resembled a group of tight revellers chipping behind a steelband on a jouvert morning (speed wise).
In any case pace is not so much the problem. It is CHANGE OF PACE which makes attacks much less predictable. Beenie has encouraged the team to work on its possession, and to be honest, in no game since we qualified have we looked panicked with posession in midfield as usd to be the case before, and maybe somewhat neglected that aspect of the game.
The change of pace can only come from two things. Individual speed merchants (Samuels, Whitley, may i say WISE) and nice one twos around the box (we saw a few involving birchall + edwards, latas and samuels samuels and birchall etc).
At the end of the day I won't read too much into the game in that department. The problem we had was scoring first and too early. T+T always play a bit laid back when we don't have a definite goal to chase, wuss yet in a friendly. Just as against PEru, once we fell behind guys started moving 3 steps faster.
I always thought "calypsoccer" was more our thing than soca football for that matter, but thats another story...