"It was a dis­ap­point­ing re­sult against the USA but I think we've learnt a lot of lessons and we've learnt a lot about the guys we have, and what we need to work on."

T&T de­fend­er Aubrey David wants all hands on deck as T&T tack­les the coun­try of his birth- Guyana in their open­ing World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing match on Thurs­day night in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic. The game is sched­uled to kick-off at 7 pm.

The De­porti­vo Sapris­sa de­fend­er is des­tined to make up for the 0-7 de­feat by the Unit­ed States on Jan­u­ary 31 by call­ing on his team­mates to stick to the in­struc­tions of coach Ter­ry Fen­wick, if they are to se­cure max­i­mum points on Thurs­day.

"We need to have con­fi­dence with­in our­selves and con­fi­dence with each oth­er. We need to stick to the game plan and uni­ty will be very vi­tal out there, so we need to work hard for each oth­er, and with these in­gre­di­ents, we can get the job done."

"I think now with the se­nior play­ers com­ing in, it would be much bet­ter and we would have a lot more ex­pe­ri­ence so that we can learn how to move for­ward in the fu­ture. It's just for us to get the in­struc­tions from the coach and know what he wants, so we can get the job done."

David who was born in Guyana and was adopt­ed by T&T ad­mit­ted that hav­ing played against the Guyanese in the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup in the USA in 2019 where the game end­ed in a 1-1 re­sult, they may have an idea of their game plan and who they may have play­ing for them.

The Guyanese have since re­cruit­ed Brazil­ian coach Mar­cio Max­i­mo for the qual­i­fiers and could pro­vide an un­ex­pect­ed style of play on Thurs­day.

David is one of few over­seas-based play­ers who have joined the T&T camp for the match. The oth­ers be­ing mid­field­er Khaleem Hy­land (Club Al Batin) of the Sau­di Ara­bi­an League, mid­field­er Daniel Phillips (Wat­ford), goal­keep­er Nick­las Fren­derup (Stjordals Blink) of the Nor­we­gian League, Ronald Primus who plays in In­dia, among oth­ers.

"It feels good to be in the camp and get­ting to know some new faces and see­ing some old faces that you haven't seen in a while be­cause of the pan­dem­ic."