Here what.
You can use whatever rationale you want for this defeat, the truth is, if you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. To drean otherwise is a fool's goal.
This is like working on a project in Trinidad. You show up for two days and expect to get paid for the week.
The more things change the more they remain the same.
Foolish.
Even if you make it to the next round, which I hope you don't, you have nothing but a reality of falling short of the true purpose of getting to the ultimate tournament in the first place, to contend with. Your purpose of getting there is to be the tournament's bitch. Small minds hope. Winners know.
The football federation is in shambles, the blind is leading the blind, people are hoping for this and that, no money passing from the government, no sponsors supporting anything, homeboy laughing at the shit he created and left behind................fill in the blanks.........on and on.