Trinidad and Tobago's Olympic footballers will not allow themselves to be carried away by Friday night's 1-0 victory over Denmark's Under-23 squad at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya.
Denmark's coach Flemming Serritslev admitted that T&T were the better side on the night and is hoping to have a positive result against Jamaica today.
The T&T side was strengthened by the return of Hector Sam, Brent Rahim and Derek King from senior duty in Morocco.
The visitors saw more of the T&T goal in the opening stages. Daniel Jensen had goalkeeper Jefferson George saving off his line after five minutes. Slowly T&T settled and began building promising attacks on goal but were guilty of carelessly giving up possession just as Danish 'keeper Casper Anuergren seemed to be preparing for a save.
Rahim displayed ideal composure and passing ability throughout while Defence Force striker Jason Scotland, Joseph Peters and Hector Sam tried repeatedly to get past the Danish custodian While Brent Sancho anchored the defence T&T began seeing more of the opposition's 18-yard box.
Then substitute Adrian Narine of Joe Public, who was brought into the side at the last moment by Shabaaz, collected a cross from the right by Anton Pierre and hit a scorcher past the Danish custodian for the winner.
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A DAY after their senior counterparts suffered a 1-0 loss to Morocco, Trinidad and Tobago Under-23 football team suffered a similar defeat against Denmark's Olympic team.This was in a warm-up match at the Concacaf Centre of Excellence at Macoya last night.
The Danes didn't waste much time before getting down to business as Daniel Jensen headed past goalkeeper Kelvin Jack in the second minute for the eventual winner.T&T struggled to mount a proper attack for a goal in the first half leaving Danish custodian Jacob Kragh a mere spectator between the uprights.
The young Soca Warriors looked more purposeful in attack after the break and had the visitors' defence under some pressure at the closing quarter of the match. Substitute Joseph Peters' shot from the edge of the18-yard box which Kragh pushed away to his right was T&T''s nearest chance at goal. Both teams clash again in a second match at the same venue tomorrow (Friday) evening from 6 pm.