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Monday, March 3, 2025

Calls for more at­tack­ing force

La Forest praises Japan result

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Walter Alibey
2096 days ago
20190607
Former national coach Ron La Forest, wants TT to be more attacking at CONCACAF Gold Cup

Former national coach Ron La Forest, wants TT to be more attacking at CONCACAF Gold Cup

Walter Alibey

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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