Difficulty of Trinidad & Tobago

Only a complete collapse in those games can endanger its advancement to the Hexagonal. For the US, another win would provide the team with an added shot of confidence and give the embattled Klinsmann a bit more job security.

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T&T’s attack is potent and both goals against Guatemala were gems: Khaleem Hyland curled a shot from outside the penalty area that nicked the inside of the post on its way into the net, and veteran striker Kenwyne Jones struck a superb volley of a diagonal cross into the top far corner. The coach needs to put the usa national team on the path to qualify for the World Cup while fielding a younger team with an eye toward Russian Federation 2018. T&T has three away points in the bag and strong momentum of that well-earned victory. And hopefully, with that game [a two-legged playoff against Colombia] the under-23s have in Brazil, the second one will do maybe even a result that’s better than the first one. Williams, who plays for Guatemalan club Antigua GFC, is arguably Trinidad’s weakest defender and the USMNT should look to attack him. Jones’ Chicago teammate Daniel Cyrus started and played the full game for T&T.

“We know that we had to be patient and soak up a lot of pressure and if we got the first goal we would be able to score more because Guatemala would have to push and we could play them on the counter.

A sellout crowd of about 23,000 is expected to turn out for the match, but they may or may not create a friendly environment for the hosts, with crowds on the island having a reputation for cheering on their team when they go ahead in a game – but booing and turning hostile when the home side falls behind.

The T&T coach is a native of that country and represented it as a player seven times. However, it will take more than a win over such limited opponents to ease the criticism of recent performances produced not only by the senior team but the youth teams he bears responsibility for in his role as technical director.

As coach of Canada, he’s faced the U.S. twice.

It won its group in last summer’s CONCACAF Gold Cup and many of its players play in the English Championship. Nobody talks about the reasons why that Gold Cup ended like that. A third-place finish set up a hard two-leg playoff against Colombia in March for a spot at the games.

Well, suffice it to say, Friday’s game did not get off to a good start. If it’s for us, if it’s for Mexico, for other teams, it’s the same: “You have to go there and get a result”.

This is where we bring back the second holding midfielder, likely Kyle Beckerman with Jones coming up lame to end the St. Vincent match, to partner with Michael Bradley in front of the back four. Against Guatemala, they were whistled for 16 infractions and yielded 10 corners.

One big change for the US from Friday’s game will be the return of Tim Howard as the goalkeeper. With Jermaine Jones and Michael Bradley playing together in the middle of a traditional 4-4-2, neither player stayed home, which allowed SV&G’s best player to punish DeAndre Yedlin’s defensive miscue.

FORWARDS (5): Jozy Altidore (Toronto FC), Alan Gordon (LA Galaxy), Jordan Morris (Stanford Univ.), Bobby Wood (Union Berlin/GER), Gyasi Zardes (LA Galaxy).