Well....4 in de middle.....no defensive midfielder......dog and tallest in de back.....allyuh know de result. I eh feeling to vent like everybody else nah.....all ah we is coaches. How men reach dat level of football and eh know bout marking is amazing to me.
Technically we had three in the middle Yorke Spann and Noel. We played with one winger for the entire game.
The problem with the back 2 right now is Tallest... but who can replace him. It easier to replace dog Nobody show that they can play the front stopper yet. Even Thomas does play behind Tallest when he play.
We really need more wing play. It should be carlos on the right, colin samuel on the left. when the costa ricans started packing up their goalmouth with players in the 2nd half, we needed wingplay to get behind them, but we didn't have it so we couldn't fashion any chances.
though there are many places to improve, this is the best I've seen the team play since the world cup. the fellas can hold their heads up. Carlos was the best player by far. Our midfielders played well in the first half.
Yorke played ok. silvio spann and trent noel were very good, i was very impressed by them attacking wise- not defensively. We need to pack our box more when the costa ricans are attacking, men need to run back. replace marvin andrews with keyeno thomas.
I think latapy made a mistake taking off all our midfielders in the second half, because we couldn't build play and make chances like before, but overall latapy did a great job putting together this team. i have a feeling he will prove to be a top manager.
kenwyne and scotland combined well for good portions of the first half. that looks promising. on another day i think scotland would have scored a few, it just wasn't his day.
About cornell glenn and baptiste, i'm still not sure. we need to see baptiste play in at least a decent international friendly. cornell glenn is and enigma, he's exceptionally fast and skilled, but doesn't play with a great awareness of what's going on around him and his decision making in many instances is questionable. if the team's defence is crowded, he tends to run head on and lose the ball many times, but he's so skilled i'm sure there's some way we can put him in the mix- or maybe not. cornell glenn and kenwyne jones?? looking forward to daryl roberts coming back too.
In the end we have many skilled players, but it's just about finding the best team, and i think latas came damn close to that today.
1) wingplay and crosses into the box- left colin samuel, right carlos edwards
2)I feel highland can replace yorke for the 2nd half of games
3) keon daniel can be used behind the strikers as a playmaker, his freekicks are an added bonus that
4)we need to hussle whichever opposing player has the ball, like we were doing at the start, but for the whole match. this forces errors, like we saw at the start when the costa ricans constanly lost the ball and couldn't build plays
keep you heads up fellas, you all played honourably( even withstanding the defensive errors), and the same for you latas- you did honourably.
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