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Monday, April 28, 2025

Jean gives credit to Charles-Fevrier tactics

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Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion as­sis­tant coach and for­mer St Lu­cia in­ter­na­tion­al, Earl Jean has cred­it­ed his team's coach and coun­try­man Stu­art Charles-Fevri­er for their 2-1 win over Cos­ta Ri­ca's De­porti­va Sapris­sa in their must win Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League Group A match at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo.

The win for the "Savonet­ta Boys" end­ed a ten-match win­less and five-match score­less streak in the tour­na­ment and put the T&T club on three points from three match­es, three be­hind Wednes­day's op­po­nent, while idle San­tos La­gu­na of Mex­i­co are sec­ond on the ta­ble on goal dif­fer­ence (+3 to -7) over W Con­nec­tion.

Speak­ing af­ter the win, which avenged a 4-0 first round loss to the Cen­tral Amer­i­cans, Jean, a for­mer club cap­tain said, "Since our last game against Sapris­sa I think he watched the video about 50 times,"

"He (Fevri­er) knew that they are a very good team and that we were up for a big chal­lenge and he sim­ply told our play­ers to re­lax, en­joy, play with con­fi­dence, and that we are rep­re­sent­ing T&T and our club, and the play­ers car­ried out the sys­tem well. It was a tac­ti­cal game."With re­gards to the late red card shown to mid­field­er Ger­ard Williams, Jean said, "It was tough and a bit harsh for Ger­ard. It's a tough loss for us be­cause Ger­ard brings a lot to our team.

"He is a play­er that us­es heart and soul for the team, but I think we have young play­ers around that will come in and give us what we want be­cause com­ing from this vic­to­ry I can on­ly see pos­i­tives for us."Jean was al­so im­pressed with the dis­play of 34-year-old strik­er An­dre Tou­s­saint who re­cent­ly re-joined the club af­ter five years.

His bril­liance as an at­tack­ing mid­field­er/false 9, af­ter re­plac­ing Jhonatan Ger­hardt in the 70th minute, gal­vanised W Con­nec­tion in the lat­ter stages."He showed that he is the right fit for the "Savonet­ta Boys" al­though miss­ing the tar­get on two ex­cel­lent scor­ing chances from close up."He (Tou­s­saint) brought a dif­fer­ent di­men­sion to our team and we have a lot of re­spect for him as he is a ma­jor sign­ing for us and it's a big plus for us be­cause Tou­s­saint is qual­i­ty."

A dis­ap­point­ed Jeaustin Cam­pos, the coach of Sapris­sa not­ed that all his team can do now is await the fi­nal out­come of match­es to se­cure qual­i­fi­ca­tion."We ex­pect­ed to win here and it was a good game for us, but it was a shame we missed a lot of chances to score and they (W Con­nec­tion) did not and that's it."

"W Con­nec­tion played good," added Cam­pos. "De­fence and on the counter at­tack.We al­ready knew it was go­ing to be tough. W Con­nec­tion are a good team. We knew it wasn't go­ing to be the same game as the first leg," end­ed Cam­pos.


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