Group D of the CONCACAF Under-20 Qualifiers, of which Guyana’s National U20 team is a part, is set to kick off their action today, Tuesday, February 24 with two games on the cards.
The group consists of hosts Curaçao, Haiti, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Anguilla.
As the local side prepares to take on the feared hosts, Head Coach Thomas Dooley has expressed his concerns about going into the contest blind.
The Head Coach told Guyana Times Sport exclusively, “The challenge is that the first team we play against is one of the strong teams, Curaçao. They have a lot of players that are playing in Europe, Holland or Germany, so that is actually a step above us and that is difficult.”
“The second difficult part is that we have no footage about them, we don’t know what system they play, it’s almost like they’re training behind closed doors. It’s a surprise,” he went on to express.
However, the optimistic gaffer was resolute in finding a silver lining, detailing how his team may be able to “surprise” their higher-ranked opponents.
Dooley explained, “And that’s what I’ve been trying to tell our players, that we need to surprise them also. That they don’t expect us to fight and work as a team as much as they think and that could be, in the end, may be the decision maker of the result of the first game.”
