Confident ‘Soca Warriors’ fly out to Mexico

The Soca Warriors beat the Panamanians 2-0 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium to haul themselves off the bottom of the standings and into fourth place with four points.

Still focused on the task ahead, head coach Leo Beenhakker had the Trinidad teamout on the Hasely Crawford Stadium pitch on Sunday morning for a light recovery session after Saturday’s victory. Trinidad will now face a tough prospect against a Mexican side that is unbeaten in the final round competition so far and who are on top the standings with ten points. They dismissed the third placed Guatemala 2-0 on Saturday and are favourites to beat the Trinidadians, after having beaten the highly rated United States 2-1 back in March.

Yorke said he hoped that Saturday’s win could boost the team’s confidence ahead of tomorrow’s game in Monterrey. "I am sure we can do good across there. Mexico has got a great record against us especially at home," Yorke noted. "But winning breeds confidence too and I think we can go there with good organisation and a good result behind us which we have at the moment and get a good result. A point would be great for us."

Meanwhile, Coventry City hitman Stern John said his goal against Panama on Saturday, was the best way to answer those critical of his goal-scoring form. The 28-year-old broke a virtual goal drought when he netted in the 34th minute to open scoring for the Soca Warriors.

"There’s no better way to answer the critics than to score in what was a massive win for us," John said. "When I missed early on I thought ‘Stern this is not going to be another one of those days.’ But I kept my head up and fought on," John said.