Coach Stu­art Charles-Fevri­er was left a dis­ap­point­ed man af­ter his un­der-15s were held to a 1-1 tie by re­gion­al neigh­bours Bar­ba­dos in the Con­ca­caf Boys Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship on Mon­day at the IMG Acad­e­my in Braden­ton Flori­da, USA.

How­ev­er, Charles-Fevri­er told the me­dia that he was some­what pleased with the per­for­mance of the team.

On the sec­ond day of com­pe­ti­tion, poor fin­ish­ing af­fect­ed the T&T team, de­spite start­ing pos­i­tive­ly and cre­at­ing nu­mer­ous chances in the en­counter. Nathaniel James and Ab­dul Qud­doos-Hy­po­lite both did well to get sights on goal but were ei­ther off-tar­get or stopped by Ra­mario Carter who put in a Man of Match per­for­mance in the Bar­ba­dos goal.

Josi­ah Wil­son mes­mer­ized op­po­nents with surg­ing runs in­to the penal­ty area on­ly, but scor­ers failed to con­vert. How­ev­er, Wil­son lat­er did it alone in the sec­ond half when he took a short cor­ner to Hy­po­lite and col­lect­ed the re­turn ball, to fire a blis­ter­ing shot from the top of the box, past Carter in the Bar­ba­dos goal.

The Ba­jans de­ci­sion to tight­en up in their de­fence curbed the T&T at­tacks, and lat­er ben­e­fit­ted from sev­er­al soft fouls around the penal­ty area to launch some test­ing free kicks. In spite, if this, the men in the red, white and black still con­trolled the ma­jor­i­ty of the pos­ses­sion.

T&T then paid the foot­balling price for their missed chances by con­ced­ing the equal­iz­er six min­utes from time. Bar­ba­dos num­ber 10 Nadre Butch­er, who came on as a sub­sti­tute, picked up deep with­in his half and took it past his mark­ers be­fore ri­fling his shot past Kenye Lazarus in the T&T goal area.

Af­ter­wards, Charles-Fevri­er said, “We dom­i­nat­ed the game but you have to score to win, so the 70% pos­ses­sion we had (though good) was not enough to get three points.”

He not­ed fur­ther, “The boys are in pain but this is what hap­pens when you don’t score your chances, they must learn that and must learn it fast be­cause we have an im­por­tant game on Wednes­day which will give them an ide­al op­por­tu­ni­ty to bounce back from this.”

With Por­tu­gal and Cos­ta Ri­ca play­ing to a 2-2 draw in the oth­er group match, it will be an up­hill task for T&T to ad­vance when they face the Eu­ro­peans in their fi­nal Group D match on Wednes­day.

T&T TEAM

Kanye Lazarus (GK), 3. Dawn St. Rose, 4. Jeron Pas­call, 7. Ab­dul Qud­doos Hy­po­lite (17. Ja­heim Faustin 67’), 8. Mo­lik Khan (Cap­tain) (8. Ja­heim Mar­shall 58’),

Natha­nial James, 11. Josi­ah Wil­son, 12. Tris­ton Stafford, 13. Kas­sidy Davi­son, 14. De­shawn Brown, 15. Dante Gilbert (16. Isa­iah Thomp­son 51’).

Un­used Sub­sti­tutes: 18. Tris­ton Ed­wards, 2. Chris­t­ian Bai­ley, 5. Tyrik Trot­man,

BAR­BA­DOS

1.Ra­mario Carter (GK), 3. Kobe Hut­son, 4. Shay Prescod, 5. Tyrique Bai­ley-Ed­wards (Cap­tain) 6. Janash Jau­nal (2. Kel­lon Car­ring­ton 66’), 7. Khi­mani Cox (14. She­wayne Burke 53’), 8. Ethan Squires (15. Ryan Lashk­ley 36’), 9. Col­in Grif­fith (10. Nadre Butch­er 48’), 11. Zachary Ap­ple­white (16. Jonathan Sealey 54’), 12. Aaron Cum­ber­batch, 13. Ethan Tay­lor.

Un­used Sub­sti­tute: 18. Al­lan Mal­lalieu (GK), 17. Save­jo Blen­man.