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Saturday, April 5, 2025

Under-20s face Bermuda for third

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T&T Un­der-20 foot­ballers will meet Bermu­da in a third/fourth-place match to­day at the Ergilio Ha­to sta­di­um in Willem­stad, Cu­ra­cao from 5 pm of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) U-20 Cham­pi­onship.

The match, com­ing a mere two days af­ter the young War­riors re­lin­quished their hold of the re­gion­al ti­tle fol­low­ing a shock­ing 5-4 se­mi-fi­nal de­feat by An­tigua & Bar­bu­da on Fri­day night on penal­ties, will re­quire the Bri­an Williams-coached team to re­fo­cus quick­ly as they come up against a tricky Bermu­dan out­fit which went down 0-3 to Haiti in the oth­er se­mi-fi­nal en­counter.

Ka­reem Ri­ley missed T&T's third kick as An­tigua con­vert­ed all five from the spot. Goals for T&T came from cap­tain Jabari Mitchell, Ke­ston Julien, Noah Pow­der and Shane Sandy.

Af­ter the game coach Williams was dis­ap­point­ed that T&T failed to put away its chances dur­ing the match. Pro­lif­ic for­ward Nicholas Dil­lon missed the en­counter af­ter suf­fer­ing an in­jury in Wednes­day's 0-0 draw with Haiti, leav­ing the field in the 88th minute.

Williams said, "It's a dis­ap­point­ment yes, that we had to lose the match in the man­ner in which we did from the penal­ty kicks."

"I felt we had good enough chances dur­ing the reg­u­lar pe­ri­od of play to take the game but we were not as ef­fi­cient as I would have liked. It is un­for­tu­nate that we had to end up in penal­ty kicks and then it was any team's match at that stage. I know the play­ers are dis­ap­point­ed as well be­cause we've missed out on a chance of get­ting to the fi­nal.

"The bet­ter sto­ry for us is that we have been able to book our spot in the fi­nal round of CON­CA­CAF and every­one here un­der­stands now that the fo­cus to­wards that tour­na­ment in Feb­ru­ary starts now. It's go­ing to take a lot of sac­ri­fice, ded­i­ca­tion and strong prepa­ra­tion for us to be ready to not just go there and play but to com­pete strong­ly and qual­i­fy for the World Cup in South Ko­rea."

Lat­er, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da will meet Haiti to de­cide, who will be crowned the new cham­pi­on.

T&T line-up

1. Den­zil Smith (GK), 3. Ko­ri Cu­pid, 5. Taryk Samp­son, 6. Noah Pow­der, 8. Jarred Dass (15. Ka­tion St Hillaire, 46') 10. Jabari Mitchell (Capt), 11. Ka­reem Ri­ley, 12. Shane Sandy, 14. Taofik Lu­cas-Walk­er (16. Mic­ah Lan­siquot, 58'), 17. Ke­ston Julien, 19. Mor­gan Bruce (18.Josh Tou­s­saint, 81st.

Subs not used � 2. An­drew Rul­low, 13. Isa­iah Gar­cia, 20. Jabari Brice (GK) Out with in­jury � 4. Kier­ron Ma­son, 9. Nicholas Dil­lon, 7. Isa­iah Hud­son.


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