T&T So­ca War­riors will be look­ing to main­tain mo­men­tum when they face Mex­i­co in their clos­ing Group C match of the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup.

The team trained for 80 min­utes at the David­son Col­lege train­ing fa­cil­i­ty yes­ter­day and was al­so sched­uled to have a light ses­sion at the match venue from 9 pm last night. The game is be­ing played at the Bank of Amer­i­can Sta­di­um in Char­lotte, North Car­oli­na, from 8.30 pm.

A draw for the So­ca War­riors will see them top the group but Mex­i­co will be gun­ning for three points af­ter their 0-0 draw with Guatemala on Sun­day. While T&T are al­ready as­sured of a quar­ter-fi­nal place, head coach Stephen Hart does not in­tend to give Mex­i­co an easy time.

"It's still an im­por­tant match be­cause we don't get to play teams of Mex­i­co's qual­i­ty very of­ten so when match­es like these come around, we have to make use of it and by that I mean we will test our abil­i­ty. "We will al­so use this as an op­por­tu­ni­ty to pre­pare against a top team from our re­gion for what's to come lat­er down the road in the World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion," Hart said yes­ter­day.

"Ad­di­tion­al­ly, no­body wants to lose a match and we have good mo­men­tum go­ing which we want to keep. Of course our fo­cus is the quar­ter fi­nals and get­ting in­to the last four," Hart added.

"The main thing is for us to stay fo­cused. Our first ob­jec­tive was to get out of the group stage and we've done that. Now we'll fo­cus on the next match and al­so pre­pare for the quar­ter fi­nal stage. De­spite what­ev­er else is hap­pen­ing off the field, we will re­main pos­i­tive and all cred­it to the play­ers al­so for be­ing very pro­fes­sion­al and not let­ting any­thing dis­tract them," Hart added.

T&T will be with­out goal­keep­er Jan Michael Williams who has sus­tained a grade one ham­string strain and is un­like­ly to see fur­ther ac­tion in the tour­na­ment.

A scan in Char­lotte con­firmed this yes­ter­day. Mid­field­er An­dre Bou­caud will al­so sit out the game on two yel­low cards.

De­fend­er Shel­don Bateau is con­fi­dent T&T can end the group on a strong note. "I'm a bit over­whelmed with my per­for­mance and that of the team so far. Es­pe­cial­ly as a de­fend­er your first job is just to keep the clean sheet but to score two in two is a great feel­ing," Bateau said yes­ter­day.

"We are con­fi­dent and go­ing in­to the Mex­i­co game with this cush­ion is good for us. Mex­i­co is al­ways a big match and a strong op­po­nent but the group is ready for the test and we'll be look­ing to keep our form and get an­oth­er pos­i­tive re­sult to fin­ish the group stage," added the Bel­gium-based play­er.

Bateau be­lieves T&T can go be­yond the quar­ter-fi­nals. "I think when you look at how we've grown, you can see that we are ca­pa­ble of match­ing them and get­ting good re­sults. With a good amount of time to­geth­er, good prepa­ra­tion and the right be­lief, we have demon­strat­ed what we are ca­pa­ble of and this is good for us look­ing ahead to the World Cup qual­i­fiers lat­er this year," Bateau said.

The con­di­tions here are much cool­er than Phoenix with tem­per­a­tures av­er­ag­ing 30 de­grees cel­sius. There was some rain dur­ing T&T's ses­sion yes­ter­day morn­ing.

T&T lost 1-0 to Mex­i­co in the 2013 Gold Cup at the quar­ter-fi­nal stage and al­so pre­vi­ous­ly lost 4-0 in their open­ing game in 2000 and 4-2 in 1998.