So I was at a bar in Manhattan with about 100 Mexicans and just me repping and mannnn I thought I was gonna have to celebrate in the hospital the way them boys looked at me when we tied up at the end and I stood up dancing in their faces.
Anyway, hands down the best game I've ever watched from the Soca Warriors.
Even though 2 of the goals were off turnovers, it was great to see the midfield push forward and have momentum in that 2nd half. Once we went down 2-0 you can see we started really pressing and that's when we were playing our best.
Cummings was great!
The thing I think we all said we wanted was for J. Jones to cross the ball in better. Well there you go.
KJ....Oh boy.... KJ is like that kid in high school who don't try and teachers hate him cuz they know he is smart and he shows glimpse of brilliance but the majority of the time he lazy and just wants to do the bare minimum. I'm not even mad at the Own Goal but that giveaway was unacceptable. Not the pass itself, but the body language and the lack of hustle afterwards. If you give up a ball you better be sprinting back to try and prevent the counter. THAT MAN AIN'T EVEN WALK! HE stood there. But then he goes and puts all kind of pressure and hits it off the cross bar and then holds the ball well and gets two assists and a goal. I dunno what do say bout this man....
Phillips gotta come out for those crosses. There was one cross where the Mexican player just mistimed it but had an open header from about 3-4 yards from the goal. That can't be an option!!! He started to go out there and punch them at the end of the game but he needs to punch harder or grab them. Great reaction save on the goal line from that header though. A lot of keepers would have bobbled that.
Defense has to stop ball watching. Maybe cuz we were playing the younger guys and resting Cyrus and others but we've been really good this tourney with winning the ball in the air until last night. Gotta get back to how we were playing.
Even though secretly I wanted to play CR (Bad from as of late and Panama is playing pretty well and DIRTY as hell) I am proud of these boys and will be cheering my heart out at METLife. One thing the Soca Warriors haven't done is played a full 90 min game with that much heart and passion and boy did they last night. Proud day for us and all the Caribbean Teams moving forward.
