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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #30 on: June 05, 2019, 09:41:25 AM »
If there is a positive to takeaway, based on the highlights, it would appear our defense was up to the challenge. There were hardly any clear cut opportunities from either inside or outside the box in the clips. Maybe someone who actually watched can better assess.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #31 on: June 05, 2019, 09:57:56 AM »
We looked a mess defensively based on the highlights I saw....and we have gone back to passive defending in our own third.

I understand what was being attempted but levi is wasted as false 9, especially if going and just lump balls at him instead of him dropping deep to pick up the ball, there he can use his running to create space for the wide men....but then holding on to the ball was d recurring issue so, well hhhmmm
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #32 on: June 05, 2019, 11:07:53 AM »
We looked a mess defensively based on the highlights I saw....and we have gone back to passive defending in our own third.

I understand what was being attempted but levi is wasted as false 9, especially if going and just lump balls at him instead of him dropping deep to pick up the ball, there he can use his running to create space for the wide men....but then holding on to the ball was d recurring issue so, well hhhmmm
.take back my mess comment about the defending  saw the extended highlights the rest still stands though
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #33 on: June 05, 2019, 11:43:39 AM »
Whatever happened to Jared London?

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #34 on: June 05, 2019, 11:59:18 AM »
We looked a mess defensively based on the highlights I saw....and we have gone back to passive defending in our own third.

I understand what was being attempted but levi is wasted as false 9, especially if going and just lump balls at him instead of him dropping deep to pick up the ball, there he can use his running to create space for the wide men....but then holding on to the ball was d recurring issue so, well hhhmmm
.take back my mess comment about the defending  saw the extended highlights the rest still stands though

 we are just on the back foot all the time  we will see against canada
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #35 on: June 05, 2019, 12:02:22 PM »
Y’all do know the full game is on the same link provided by FF !

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #36 on: June 05, 2019, 12:05:03 PM »
WATCH: Post-match comments from Head Coach Dennis Lawrence

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #37 on: June 05, 2019, 12:26:09 PM »
I just watched the first half and really couldn't watch more as it was as exciting as watching paint dry. I don't think T&T had a clear strategy offensively. We allowed too many passes per defensive action and it didn't seem as if there was any attempt or intent to win the ball in any particular area.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #38 on: June 05, 2019, 04:59:59 PM »
WATCH: Goalkeeper Marvin Phillip talks about his spectacular performance during Trinidad and Tobago's 0-0 draw with Japan.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #39 on: June 05, 2019, 05:50:46 PM »
Honestly. Seeing what this team have to go thru, I was surprised the score was 0-0. Defensively they played well, but there offence was minimal. Garcia had a good header. But honestly fellas .... what allyuh really expected .   that we beat them?

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #40 on: June 05, 2019, 06:26:04 PM »
JA just bust a top class goal on the US. 1-0 JA.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #42 on: June 05, 2019, 10:42:25 PM »
credit when and where due. To hold Japan to 0-0 deserve credit. You could see Dennis Lawrence's strength in organizing a defensive team shining through. Players understood their role in the parked bus very well, and executed well.  We didn't have the midfield to match Japan player for player so this is the game we ended up with. I thought Nathan Lewis did well under the circumstances. Good to see Levi play a full game (when last?) and he didn't do too bad either. Jomal put in some dangerous crosses. Cyrus (who I love to hate), I thought finally getting his act together and showing that he is a senior man in the back and tightening up his game.  The rest, I guess you have to work with what you have, but honestly if we had choices they would all be coming off some bench if a starter get injured...except that dread they bring on at left back - please leave him home -- need a year or more again..and a couple others too. What does this mean for the Gold Cup? maybe we can draw our way into the final.  ;D Marvin ent hold one shot up to now. I lie he hold one. Excellent at parrying and blocking shots, but always give up second chances.  A more astute team - USA, Mexico etc will bury them -  please put in another keeper.
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #43 on: June 06, 2019, 08:41:49 AM »
My feeling at this stage is that if we are going to play direct balls we are better of using diagonal  passing to create outlets in the wide areas....as it stands those long balls are aimless....if yuh going and do that, measured balls jus in front ot behind d last defenders dat we attackers can actually reach to apply pressure would be best

Was levi any good in up front
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #44 on: June 06, 2019, 08:54:18 AM »
My feeling at this stage is that if we are going to play direct balls we are better of using diagonal  passing to create outlets in the wide areas....as it stands those long balls are aimless....if yuh going and do that, measured balls jus in front ot behind d last defenders dat we attackers can actually reach to apply pressure would be best

Was levi any good in up front

Generally speaking, long balls have a history of being maligned, but they are not all bad. One of the problems has tended to be accuracy, predictability and the quality of the deliveries. In our case predictability is also a function of their frequency/overuse and the areas to which they tend to be played. With variation in how the ball is played forward we could have a more selective use of the longer ball, but as you'll recall ... we have an issue maintaining possession ... a problem that preceded DL. Which is to say, even the diagonal balls have been picked off.

What's the maintenance of possession like in the Pro League?

Zabaleta comes to mind. He's used the long ball time and time again, but he delivers in a way that aids the receiving player.

If the long ball is being used to relieve an attacking barrage, then we need to be sensible in where it's played and how quickly/slowly it's delivered. Everyone on here has a memory of a long ball being converted into another attack down our throats.
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #45 on: June 06, 2019, 09:10:48 AM »

If T&T play like how they did against Japan in the Gold Cup then they will be on the losing end of most games. You have to be assertive and want to win to beat good teams especially when  it matters

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #46 on: June 06, 2019, 12:14:06 PM »
Seeker I hear all dat....what we seem to lack most is composed C/DM dat can build d play which exacerbate our  long ball problem we don't have a truly complete mid to be in the hole... Kevan George, good ball winner but can't distribute apart from the simplest of passes and I have no clue if he can run with the ball at  his feet....that where d positioning and movement of d other mids and fullbacks can be key to provide d easiest possible pass dat is not ah hoff up  field
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #47 on: June 06, 2019, 12:33:03 PM »
What Kevan is doing is preserving possession and not being wasteful of the ball. How is he at interrupting play and winning tackles and recovering the ball etc? If he did that all day long and someone else advanced the play, you wouldn't care, ent? He certainly isn't likely to be accused of randomly launching the ball forward wildly.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #48 on: June 06, 2019, 12:50:11 PM »
Whatever happened to Jared London?

I thought this player showed inclinations of looking to play positively, offered variation with his left foot, seemed well applied 1 v1, had a good passing range and accuracy on the floor, didn't seem intimidated, could play between the lines or was inclined to get the ball there and seemed like he could be cultivated.

What is the story? He certainly is/was a more sturdy player than Arcia.
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #49 on: June 06, 2019, 03:19:50 PM »
Trinidad and Tobago deny Japan with gutsy performance in Aichi
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Trinidad and Tobago will be heading to the United States on Thursday morning on the back off a 0-0 draw with Japan at the Toyota Stadium in Aichi. It was a result that would leave Dennis Lawrence and his men with a lot to feel good about as they held their nerves as they frustrated the hosts before 38,000 odd fans in an exercise which both countries used to prepare for upcoming international competitions. T&T opens its 2019 Gold Cup account on June 18th against Panama while Japan will contest the Copa America where they will field a largely under 23 team before commencing its 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifiers in September.

Japan showed a lot of energy in attack but couldn’t breakdown a stubborn T&T defence as goalkeeper Marvin Phillip pulled off a number of good stops to deny the hosts who piled on the pressure in the second half.

Portimonense midfielder Shoya Nakajima sniped away at the goal, while FC Groningen midfielder Ritsu Doan wreaked havoc up the middle, often in concert with Marseille defender Hiroki Sakai coming up the right flank.

Alvin Jones had T&T’s best first half attempt when his free kick was saved by the Japanese custodian. In the 24th minute, a Doan through pass unleashed Sakai down the right. Werder Bremen forward Yuya Osako found space in front of Phillip’s goal and stung the ‘keeper’s hands after a well-timed cross from Sakai. That ushered in nearly 20 minutes of non-stop pressure from the Japanese that included a Nakajima missile blocked by Phillip, and a free kick from the Japanese midfielder that came off the bar.

Starved of the ball while his teammates were under pressure, T&T forward Levi Garcia had the best chance of the first half but was blocked by Japan’s Daniel Schmidt. The American-born Vegalta Sendai goalkeeper then stopped a point-blank header  by Kevan George off the ensuing corner. Garcia also played one in from the right which just beat a lunging Nathan Lewis inside the box.

Phillip was once more put to the test in a 30-second rush in that saw him deflect an 85th-minute strike from Japan captain Gaku Shibasaki, tip away a roller seconds later and then stop a shot from Sho Genji.  Lawrence gave 18-year-old Judah Garcia a run out late in the second half as T&T continued to press on. Jones was forced to leave the field with a strained hamstring but is expected to be ready for the Gold Cup.

The match had earlier kicked off in style both on and off the field as the stadium lights were lowered prior to the teams’ entrance onto the pitch with only the lights of the fans’ mobile phones and the digital screen illuminating the venue along followed by an eight second countdown before the teams came out. There was also small Japanese contingent of around thirty persons playing steel pan and outfitted in carnival wear in the stands.

Lawrence later credited his team for a gutsy performance.

“In terms of the game obviously we had to dig deep because we played an exceptional team in Japan. They moved the ball well. They tried to get the ball in wide areas, create the width and get a lot of crosses in which we expected and we had to defend. On the other side I was really, really proud of my boys tonight, Lawrence said.

“It was a long journey to get here. The boys did us proud and it was really the type of test we needed going into competition like the Gold Cup. I was really pleased for the boys. I couldn’t name one particular player because I thought they all stood up to be counted. Obviously in the end Japan really pushed us back and our ‘keeper had to pull off some incredible saves but that is what he’s there for ,” Lawrence added.

Goalkeeper Phillip also spoke about the result and performance on the night.

“We knew the game would have been tough. We tried to go out there and stick to the game plan. During the game I had to make a couple saves and I came up big for the team on the night. That’s a goalkeeper’s job. I had been putting in a lot of work since we started the training camp. All of this didn’t come by guess. It came by putting in a lot of work with the goalkeeper coach Ross Russell,” Phillip said.

The T&T goalkeeper mentioned that Lawrence’s ability to prepare his team on what to expect from the opponent has been critical.

“Right now the team under good guidance under the coach. We understand what he wants. It’s jus for us to go out there and execute and turn the 1-0 losses we’ve had in the last couple games into positive results going into the Gold Cup. I knew I needed to remain solid for the closing minutes of the match because the guys were getting tired also because a few of them having been active for a while,” he said

“We have a few things to work on still and to fine tune but the next week will be important and should be really good for us going into the opener against Panama.”

Trinidad and Tobago: 1.Marvin Phillip (GK);  12.Carlyle Mitchell (15.Curtis Gonzales 89), 5.Daneil Cyrus , 3.Mekeil Williams; 19.Kevan George,16.Alvin Jones (14.Akeem Humphrey, 67′), 23.Leston Paul; 13.Nathan Lewis (6.Duane Muckette 78′),11.Levi Garcia (18.Lester Peltier 71). 8.Khaleem Hyland (captain) (4.Neveal Hackshaw 84′), 20.Jomal Williams (2.Judah Garcia 89);

Unused substitutes: 22.Adrian Foncette (GK); 9.Shahdon Winchester.

Head Coach: Dennis Lawrence

Japan: 23.Daniel Schmidt (GK); 22.Shinnosuke Hatanaka, 3.Gen Shoji, 16.Takehiro Tomiyasu; 19.Hiroki Sakai (2.Sei Muroya 61′), 24.Hidemasa Morita (25.Yuki Kobayashi 61′), 7.Gaku Shibasaki (captain), 5.Yuto Nagatomo (8.Genki Haraguchi 79′); 11.Shoya Nakajima (9.Takumi Minamino 71′),21.Ritsu Doan (14.Junya Ito 21), 15.Yuya Osako,

Unused substitutes: 12.Shuichi Gonda (GK), 28.Keisuke Osako (GK), 4.Ryosuke Yamanaka, 6.Kento Hashimoto, 10.Shinji Kagawa, 13.Kensuke Nagai, 20.Tomoake Makino.

Head Coach: Hajime Moriyasu
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #50 on: June 06, 2019, 07:59:48 PM »
What Kevan is doing is preserving possession and not being wasteful of the ball. How is he at interrupting play and winning tackles and recovering the ball etc? If he did that all day long and someone else advanced the play, you wouldn't care, ent? He certainly isn't likely to be accused of randomly launching the ball forward wildly.



nah seeker I not arguing against kevan, dat would be foolish, my big issue with "him" is his pass, dat in my view should be ah 90% pass most ah d time, but doh always get it right, and his positioning does fail him every now and then, me wishing for an upgrade is more an acceptance of his limitations
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #51 on: June 07, 2019, 12:18:30 AM »
La Forest praises Japan result.
By Walter Alibey (Guardian).


Calls for more at­tack­ing force

Too de­fen­sive is what for­mer na­tion­al foot­ball coach Ron La For­est be­lieves, could ham­per the na­tion­al foot­ball team at the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup in the Unit­ed States and Ja­maica lat­er this month.

Coach Den­nis Lawrence's men held 26th-ranked Japan to a goal­less draw at the Toy­ota Sta­di­um in Aichi on Wednes­day, but they ex­pect­ed­ly had to en­dure loads of re­lent­less at­tack­ing pres­sure which pegged them back in their de­fen­sive third for most of the match.

How­ev­er, La For­est, con­sid­ered one of the coun­try's bet­ter-at­tack­ing play­ers in his hey­days, be­lieves Lawrence should cap­i­talise on the at­tack­ing op­tions avail­able to him in a struc­tured way.

"I com­mend Lawrence and the So­ca War­riors for pulling off such a drawn re­sult against the high-ranked Japan­ese, and I think it will do a whole lot of good for the team at the Gold Cup. How­ev­er, the coach needs to find a way to use play­ers such as Jo­evin Jones, Levi Gar­cia, Nathan Lewis and Kevin Moli­no with their at­tack­ing abil­i­ties, be­cause this is where the strength in T&T foot­ball lies," La For­est said.

Ac­cord­ing to La For­est, "I do not know what the coach's strat­e­gy was on the day but we were be­ing pressed in the back for long pe­ri­ods of time, and as a re­sult, we hard­ly got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to show what we can do of­fen­sive­ly."

The So­ca War­riors are set to open their cam­paign against an im­prov­ing Pana­ma team on June 18, be­fore tak­ing on the host na­tion the Unit­ed States, two days lat­er. Their fi­nal match will be against re­gion­al neigh­bour Guyana.

The So­ca War­riors need to be among the top two teams to progress from the group phase and foot­ball pun­dits are al­ready pre­dict­ing max­i­mum points against the Guyanese, but they feel the War­riors need to get a favourable re­sult against the Pana­ma­ni­ans or the US to ad­vance.

La For­est be­lieves Lawrence should use the T&T team to its strength, which is in their at­tack, say­ing we need to fight fire with fire.

Be­fore the Gold Cup tour­na­ment, the T&T War­riors will face Cana­da in an­oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly en­counter on June 10, be­fore leav­ing for the Gold Cup the day af­ter.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #52 on: June 07, 2019, 04:42:54 PM »
foot­ball pun­dits are al­ready pre­dict­ing max­i­mum points against the Guyanese ....

Please don't give pundits a bad name. Use prognosticators. For this TT team, this is a group of death. Them eh sure to beat Guyana. So hold their prediction until after the game.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #53 on: June 07, 2019, 09:10:23 PM »
So people.... we played against a team ranked about 70 places above us and held them to  draw and we can find nothing positive to say about our game. What did you all really expect ?????????
How many players were missing....both defensive and offensive....

No Sheldon Bateau or Aubrey David and we still held out
No Kevin Molino, Jovin Jones, Willis Plaza, Athulla Guerra.....not even Rundel Winchester and you expect to see an offense that would trouble a team ranked 26th in the world.
Some of you all really living in "fairy land" yes

Marvin Phillip in goal...… Clean sheet......magnificent performance and what ??? Not a word about his performance..... Let him miss one against Canada and nobody even wants him on the squad.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #54 on: June 08, 2019, 12:09:22 PM »
So people.... we played against a team ranked about 70 places above us and held them to  draw and we can find nothing positive to say about our game. What did you all really expect ?????????
How many players were missing....both defensive and offensive....

No Sheldon Bateau or Aubrey David and we still held out
No Kevin Molino, Jovin Jones, Willis Plaza, Athulla Guerra.....not even Rundel Winchester and you expect to see an offense that would trouble a team ranked 26th in the world.
Some of you all really living in "fairy land" yes

Marvin Phillip in goal...… Clean sheet......magnificent performance and what ??? Not a word about his performance..... Let him miss one against Canada and nobody even wants him on the squad.

Ras personnel notwithstanding, we could have done bits in attack with ah little more patience and composure on d ball it was a creditable performance and perhaps dat ain't getting enough talk time.....but our dull "as in blade" attack is a real concern we can't build d play out from d back properly and failing dat we can't drop dem attempted long pass in useful zones.....I all for building teams from d back, but we need solutions for d front....for me if we resorting to hoofing d ball up field we better of with ah man straddling d opposition backline otherwise we wasting time and possession

I not trying to be negative for negativity sake but it have ways to deal with some ah we players limitations on d offensive side and yuh not really seein progress in fixing dem
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #55 on: June 08, 2019, 04:16:35 PM »
So people.... we played against a team ranked about 70 places above us and held them to  draw and we can find nothing positive to say about our game. What did you all really expect ?????????
How many players were missing....both defensive and offensive....

No Sheldon Bateau or Aubrey David and we still held out
No Kevin Molino, Jovin Jones, Willis Plaza, Athulla Guerra.....not even Rundel Winchester and you expect to see an offense that would trouble a team ranked 26th in the world.
Some of you all really living in "fairy land" yes

Marvin Phillip in goal...… Clean sheet......magnificent performance and what ??? Not a word about his performance..... Let him miss one against Canada and nobody even wants him on the squad.

Ras personnel notwithstanding, we could have done bits in attack with ah little more patience and composure on d ball it was a creditable performance and perhaps dat ain't getting enough talk time.....but our dull "as in blade" attack is a real concern we can't build d play out from d back properly and failing dat we can't drop dem attempted long pass in useful zones.....I all for building teams from d back, but we need solutions for d front....for me if we resorting to hoofing d ball up field we better of with ah man straddling d opposition backline otherwise we wasting time and possession

I not trying to be negative for negativity sake but it have ways to deal with some ah we players limitations on d offensive side and yuh not really seein progress in fixing dem

Just to acknowledge Rastaman. . .Good point! We as a people have historically tended to find the fault and criticize much more easily than offer praise when there is more than enough praiseworthy elements present.

However,  I didn't get the sense that the prevailing comments above were just throwing cold water on the efforts of the NT. They are lamenting the lack of judgement and attacking mindedness we need to have to reap any success.

The team performed credibly in that they didn't concede and fought to compete. I believe we could do a lot better. But there are MANY forces working against that happening. Incompetence, Greed, Oppression, Arrogance, Stupidity, Comfort level of Mediocrity . . . to name a few. . .
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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #56 on: June 08, 2019, 07:58:41 PM »
Just called the official distributor of T&T kits in Trinidad and they 'haven't released' the new kit and 'sold out' of the old one. Anybody who tried to buy a T&T kit recently would realize that that is the official song, and T&T fans can't even buy our own kit. This is not a real team we supporting. This is a shell business for marketing certain pro league players (akin to how certain people who cyah drive no ass does pass the drivers' test). Imagine things so bad we looking back at the Tim Kee reign as the good old days.

It looks like theres a new sponsor, called Capelli sport. Looks like a company out of Germany. Just saw a post from the TTFA with Capelli sport tagged.

Steups them from NY/NJ

That is a small time company. Good for them if they expanding but we is a joke

Can of worms and weasels opened.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #57 on: June 11, 2019, 06:48:44 PM »
Finally looked at the game.

Very impressed with Phillip. If he is looking for a contract abroad, highlights from that game should do it.

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Re: Thread for the T&T vs Japan Game (05-Jun-2019)
« Reply #58 on: June 18, 2019, 07:38:55 PM »
credit when and where due. To hold Japan to 0-0 deserve credit. You could see Dennis Lawrence's strength in organizing a defensive team shining through. Players understood their role in the parked bus very well, and executed well.  We didn't have the midfield to match Japan player for player so this is the game we ended up with. I thought Nathan Lewis did well under the circumstances. Good to see Levi play a full game (when last?) and he didn't do too bad either. Jomal put in some dangerous crosses. Cyrus (who I love to hate), I thought finally getting his act together and showing that he is a senior man in the back and tightening up his game.  The rest, I guess you have to work with what you have, but honestly if we had choices they would all be coming off some bench if a starter get injured...except that dread they bring on at left back - please leave him home -- need a year or more again..and a couple others too. What does this mean for the Gold Cup? maybe we can draw our way into the final.  ;D Marvin ent hold one shot up to now. I lie he hold one. Excellent at parrying and blocking shots, but always give up second chances.  A more astute team - USA, Mexico etc will bury them -  please put in another keeper.

 

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