[R] Haiti vs Jamaica - 12 June

NoSix · Jun 17, 2004

boyz42006 said:

I was in Miami for the game and most of the Reggae Boyz fans are just as perplexed as you are about Damani and especially Andy not playing a bigger part in that game. For some strange reason, our coach Carl Brown, decided to leave out our 3 creative midfielders and start with 5 defenders and 3 defensive midfielders, a major change from the Unity Cup preparation just last week. Strangely, that was the worst I've seen us defend in years. He made a lot of other obvious blunders but top of the list was the one where he took out the goal scorer, Marlon King who looked like he was still very hungry to score, to the surprise of everyone (including the rest of his coaching staff I am assuming). The bad thing about this was that he should have put in Ralph for Ricardo Fuller who just returned from knee surgery and was limping around. Instead, Ralph came in for Marlon King way too late in the game. He looked the most dangerous player on the field all day and the best I've seen him for Jamaica. It was very frustrating. The other blunder was to put in Theodore Whitmore early in the second half to take control of the midfield. The problem here was not that he put him in the game, but the fact that he only touched the ball once in about 40 minutes, and that was after being in the game for 14 mins. One would think that a coach would tell his players to pass the ball to his creative midfielder as soon as he was injected into the game. It was a miracle that we came through that game with a draw. That game was the highest my heartrate has been in a long time.
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It will be interesting to see if Brown learns anything from this game. Good luck to you and the Boyz!

MiamiCanes69 · Jun 17, 2004

If the game ends in a 0-0 tie, Jamaica would advance to the next round, not Haiti. They have to score to keep any hope of moving on alive.

Opps that was dumb I dont know why I wrote what I did, Wasnt thinking but I do think Haiti will advance.

The crowd at the Orange Bowl was about 3 to 1 in favor of the Haitian supporters