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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

McClaren wants Reggae Boys to show fight after opening Gold Cup loss

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Sport Desk
35 days ago
20250618
Reggae Boyz versus Guatemala during their group stage match of the 2025 Gold Cup at Dignity Health Sports Park, California, USA.

Reggae Boyz versus Guatemala during their group stage match of the 2025 Gold Cup at Dignity Health Sports Park, California, USA.

Concacaf

CAL­I­FOR­NIA – Reg­gae Boys head coach Steve Mc­Claren is urg­ing his play­ers to be more ag­gres­sive and show more fight af­ter Guatemala claimed a hard-fought 1-0 vic­to­ry over Ja­maica in their 2025 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup Group C matchup on Mon­day at Dig­ni­ty Health Sports Park, USA.

The match saw an ear­ly scare for Ja­maica when Guatemala near­ly broke the dead­lock in the 17th minute. Dar­win Lom bat­tled through mul­ti­ple de­fend­ers be­fore set­ting up Ós­car San­tis for a vol­ley, but the strike was dis­al­lowed for off­side.

The Guatemalan duo wouldn’t be de­nied for long, how­ev­er. In the 32nd minute, Lom de­liv­ered a clever back­heel pass to San­tis, who slot­ted home the de­ci­sive goal, seal­ing a cru­cial three points for his side.

Ja­maica strug­gled to find an equalis­er as Guatemala’s dis­ci­plined de­fence held firm. Af­ter the match, Mc­Claren em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of men­tal­i­ty in tour­na­ment play.

“At the be­gin­ning, you have to have an ag­gres­sive men­tal­i­ty that over­comes every­thing. When you’re the un­der­dog, which Guatemala felt they were af­ter their first re­sult, they played like un­der­dogs, and they fought like mad. We have to do the same. Peo­ple talk a lot about tac­tics and for­ma­tions, but it’s about play­ers, about be­ing ag­gres­sive, win­ning du­els, and get­ting the ba­sics right.”

Ja­maica will look to bounce back when it faces Guade­loupe on Fri­day in San Jose, Cal­i­for­nia.

CMC

Mon­day's Group C re­sults

Ja­maica 0 vs Guatemala 1

Pana­ma 5 vs Guade­loupe 2


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