T&T's So­ca Princess­es will be look­ing to make it three wins in a row when they meet Cos­ta Ri­ca in the se­mi-fi­nals of the Con­ca­caf Women's Cham­pi­onship in Chester, Penn­syl­va­nia, on Fri­day. "Com­ing in­to this tour­na­ment we knew all we need­ed was two wins to get out the group. Those two wins have now seen us in­to the se­mi fi­nals where we hope to make it three wins in a row," said cap­tain Maylee At­tin-John­son fol­low­ing T&T's 2-1 vic­to­ry over Guatemala on Mon­day night which sealed this coun­try's place in the se­mi-fi­nals.The squad was sched­uled to ar­rive in Chester around 3 pm yes­ter­day.

T&T al­so de­feat­ed Haiti but lost to the Unit­ed States. "We knew US was go­ing to be chal­leng­ing. But we al­ways be­lieved we were a class above Haiti and Guatemala," she con­tin­ued.About her penal­ty strike which turned out to be the win­ner af­ter Guatemala pulled a goal back lat­er on, At­tin-John­son added: "It def­i­nite­ly boost­ed my con­fi­dence. I haven't been play­ing my usu­al game but I think this game I came in­to my own on the of­fen­sive side of things which is a plus for the team."

Ad­mit­ting that the build up to the tour­na­ment had its chal­lenges for the T&T team, At­tin-John­son cred­it­ed the TTFA for be­ing able to ne­go­ti­ate to have Randy Wal­drum take over the reigns of the team pri­or to the Caribbean Fi­nals which fol­lowed a train­ing camp in Hous­ton ear­li­er this year. He is as­sist­ed by his son Ben and goal­keep­er coach Lin­coln Phillips."I def­i­nite­ly want to give cred­it to the As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) for bring­ing in Randy. It's a fan­tas­tic feel­ing see­ing that all the hard­work is fi­nal­ly com­ing to fruition. We have a world class coach­ing staff that pre­pares us well. Once we ex­e­cute the game plan, it's go­ing to be dif­fi­cult to beat us and we hope that on Fri­day we go out there and do so," she said.

At­tin-John­son said the team is ea­ger to turn the ta­bles on Cos­ta Ri­ca af­ter they de­feat­ed the T&T Un­der 20 Women in their fi­nal World Cup qual­i­fy­ing match in Jan­u­ary."We haven't played to our full po­ten­tial thus far and we haven't field­ed our full team through­out this tour­na­ment due to in­juries, so we hope that the three days rest will do well for the in­jured ones. We are very anx­ious for this game and we want to avenge the Un­der 20 loss to them."If T&T los­es on Fri­day, they will have a fur­ther chance for a World Cup spot at the third place match on Sun­day and a pos­si­ble home and away play­off with Ecuador looms in No­vem­ber.