St Vincent holds Cuba to frustrate Warriors
By Lasana Liburd (Wired868.com)
Trinidad and Tobago’s path to next month’s Caribbean Cup football finals in Antigua and Barbuda became more complicated this evening before the “Soca Warriors” had even taken the field.
A draw between St Vincent and the Grenadines and Cuba means that the Trinidad and Tobago footballers will almost certainly need maximum points tonight against Suriname and on Sunday afternoon against the Cubans to have a realistic chance of advancing past the semifinal group stage, which is being held at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet.
The Vincentians have just two points from successive matches but would be favourites to win against Suriname on Sunday, which would take them to five points. Cuba already has four points but enjoys a goal differential of plus five.
Unless Trinidad and Tobago puts five past Suriname, three points tonight plus a draw against Cuba on Sunday would be useless as the Spanish-speaking islanders would advance by virtue of a better goal difference.
It was the worse result that could have happened for the hosts.
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