Interesting how people view the game in so many different ways...
The crowd was really into it, I agree, good to see and experience.
Lawrence is now the rock of our defence. Shows how much we missed him in the 0-3 loss in the US. Thomas complimenting him decent too. Hislop did good as well, kudos to him.
Akeile Edwards reminds me of Seon Power from the last Gold Cup days. I sincerely hope he improves his game somehow, or he never starts for T&T again...Maybe the Digicel cup we can try with him, but not WCQ's. He was atrocious. I dont know if it was nerves, but he real pull stones. the only thing I find he did good was some of them long throws he put in, but I cant see a man getting selected on the merit of his throws in football. I now see why bermuda almost poison us, him and the rasta right back, Lord, I hope them days dont ever come back.
Silvio to me did not have that bad of a game as some of you guys suggest, below par yes, but he did far more better things than A Edwards. Maybe he just a bit rusty.
carlos did ok, I still feel he have something extra in him (goal scoring ability), but he working his way back..
Birchall - man of the match, engine of the team, biggest effort out there, nuff said. I see he starting to dribble men every now and then too, LOL
Yorke is still the boss, he controls the tempo of the game and everything goes thru him, like how Latas did 7 years ago. Me aint care what KND say, we keend Yorke if we are to make it to South Africa. Fack Keane and his "common" ahem I mean Sunderland sense in how much Yorke should be played for T&T. Dwight is now reversing his old curse of being a club baller and not a national player...
Daniel play decent, you could see the class in him, is like he overtaking Hyland now. Solid player and deadly at free kicks, although we didnt get any good ones last nite.
Scotland put in another decent shift, so to did Stern I guess in the limited time he got.
Latas - played in spurts, made a couple telling through balls and fancy, crowd pleasing dribbles, but just before he score i was shouting for him to get subbed too, but as usual, the magician prove us wrong yet again. I really thought he had run out of steam agasint the fast, hungry, shark-like american youths... He definitely has a role with this team if he can stay fit....
The worrying thing was we seem to have no cover for Cyd and Avery, that is worrying, especially as these men prone to cards and suspensions or injury, both due to their aggressive play...
We also look a lill flat too, the energy and tempo was a bit low as well, but then again we struggle with teams that play like us (USA, Jamaica, England, Bermuda
We also need to work on fitness, again the USA shows us how to run off the ball consistently and open the game up,.. Simple things, but things that can only be done with supreme fitness. Imagine a team of Birchalls! Thats the intensity you see when Spain plays, energy in every single play of the game for 90 mins.
I also dont like the fact that Latas taking all the corners..Maybe because of his liability as a short man in the box, or lack of tracking back if he sits on the edge of the box and the team breaks on the counter...But corners are a drain on fitness. We have daniel, carlos and birchall who can also shre responsibilities and mix it up a bit.
Good job warriors in getting the job done. that is what matters.
I already looking forward to the Cuba game and perhaps the return of KJ!