‘New’ Warriors beat Guyana 2-1By JOEL BAILEY Wednesday, January 30 2008
KEON DANIEL and Devon Jorsling scored in the second half as Trinidad and Tobago again rallied from a half-time deficit, but this time they defeated Guyana 2-1 in a hastily-arranged friendly football match at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva yesterday morning.
Collie Hercules, a member of Pro League wooden-spooners Tobago United, put the Jamaal Shabazz-coached Guyanese ahead in the 37th minute, drilling a long ball past San Juan Jabloteh goalkeeper Daurance Williams.
But Daniel, the Petrotrin playmaker, responded with a 58th minute freekick, which sailed past Tobago United goalie Andrew Durant.
And Jorsling, who was one of the top strikers in the 2007 Pro League, netted the winner for the hosts five minutes later after the visitors failed to clear a loose ball from their penalty area.
The match, which was contested on the stadium’s training ground, was organised on Monday, after the national team, under assistant coach Anton Corneal, returned home following Saturday’s come-from-behind 2-2 draw in Puerto Rico.
Guyana spent the past two days in Trinidad after they also battled to a 2-2 tie against hosts St Vincent/Grenadines.
None of the TT players who featured in Saturday’s match were involved in yesterday’s encounter, and that presented opportunities for a number of fringe players to impress the coaching staff ahead of the February 6 friendly international against Guadeloupe at the Queen’s Park Oval.
With Williams starting between the uprights while Jason Springer and Terrence McAllister (both of Joe Public), Dwayne Jack and Nigel Daniel (both Jabloteh) formed the defensive back-line.
World Cup midfielder Densil Theobald, who has been part of the recent training sessions since his Hungarian club Ujpest FC is on a winter break, was joined in the middle by the dreadlocked Marvin Oliver (in the midst of a tug-of-war between Caledonia AIA and Jabloteh), Andrei Pacheco (W Connection) and Kerry Noray.(Joe Public).
The attack was carried by the Defence Force duo of Jorsling and Richard Roy. And the substitutes used by Corneal were Tristan Charles of Petrotrin (for Williams), W Connection utility player Kern Cupid (for Springer), American-based defender Kareem Smith (for McAllister), Keon Daniel (for Oliver), Caledonia’s Hayden Tinto (for Noray), Connection’s Clyde Leon (for Pacheco) and Joe Public’s Kendall Jagdeosingh (for Roy).
The 26-year-old Nigel Daniel, Jabloteh’s left-back, has fully recovered from a left knee injury which he sustained against Joe Public at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Tunapuna last May while the 23-year-old Pacheco just ended his loan spell with Columbus Crew in the American MLS.
