Dis­ap­point­ed, yet pleased with their per­for­mance against qual­i­ty op­po­si­tion in Group A of the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup, is how Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice FC coach Wen­dell Joseph feels.

He ex­pressed this at the post-match press con­fer­ence fol­low­ing his team's goal­less draw with Ja­maica's Mt Pleas­ant FC at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day night.

Joseph's men need­ed to win des­per­ate­ly to have a chance of pro­gress­ing as one of the top two teams in the group, but de­spite well-cre­at­ed chances, they could not find the back of the nets.

Joseph, quizzed on how he felt about the re­sult, said: "Dis­ap­point­ed. Every­thing that we ex­pect­ed tonight was there, we ex­pect­ed Mt Pleas­ant to come at us, we ex­pect­ed them to play fast and phys­i­cal­ly, we got that, but all-in-all I be­lieve we matched them foot-to-foot. We cre­at­ed some op­por­tu­ni­ties as well, we hit the post but un­for­tu­nate­ly, we did not score and that was dis­ap­point­ing."

He added: "Now that we have five points, the teams have an ad­van­tage over us, so get­ting three points tonight (Thurs­day) would have been very im­por­tant to put the pres­sure on. So yes, I'm dis­ap­point­ed but what a for­mi­da­ble per­for­mance by my team tonight (Thurs­day)."

The Po­lice ex­it fol­lowed the de­par­ture of an­oth­er lo­cal team AC Port of Spain who fin­ished with just two points in the group. In their last match against Cibao at the same venue on Tues­day, the Cap­i­tal City Boyz squan­dered a 2-0 ad­van­tage to be edged 3-2.

Joseph told the me­dia that the match­es at the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup were jolt­ing for him and his team, say­ing he in­tends to use the ex­pe­ri­ence for com­ing tour­na­ments and match­es.

"For Po­lice FC, it is an eye-open­er, hav­ing played in the tour­na­ment many years ago, I can say the qual­i­ty is much high­er now, we've seen where, as a club and as a team, that we are be­hind, with re­spect to prepa­ra­tion and stuff.

"We met three prop­er pro­fes­sion­al teams com­ing out of Ja­maica and I be­lieve that was a yard­stick to mea­sure how we played, and our abil­i­ty to com­pete. So tak­ing away from this tour­na­ment, we will go back to the draw­ing board, we will use this as a yard­stick to pre­pare for up­com­ing match­es and sea­sons."

Joseph con­clud­ed: "I am dis­ap­point­ed but yet pleased be­cause of the qual­i­ty of the op­po­si­tion. They were prop­er­ly pre­pared teams with prop­er foun­da­tion, and prop­er set-up, so we were in a win-win sit­u­a­tion play­ing against these teams."