Concacaf Boys' Under-15 Championship 2019 Junior ‘Golden Jaguars’ record solid win over Cayman Islands; Nicaragua advance

Concacaf Boys’ Under-15 Championship 2019 Junior ‘Golden Jaguars’ record solid win over Cayman Islands; Nicaragua advance

Aug 09, 2019 Sports

A relaxed and confident Guyana side closed out their Group E campaign at the 2019 Concacaf Boys’ Under-15 Championship at the IMG Academy, Bradenton, Florida with a solid 2-0 win over the Cayman Islands yesterday morning.

Guyana’s Under-15 Team, the Junior ‘Golden Jaguars’ in Florida.

Head Coach Brian Joseph and his support staff having a team chat.

It was Guyana second positive result which saw the junior ‘Golden Jaguars’ missing out on topping the group by a single point having scored the same amount of goals as the group winners, Nicaragua which had defeated Guyana in its opening match, 3-0.
Putting that loss aside, the Guyanese team led by Head Coach Brian ‘Joe Boy’ Joseph went back to the drawing board and came up with respective plans that saw them defeating Bahamas 5-1 and subsequently, Cayman Islands 2-0 yesterday.
Cayman Islands had held Nicaragua to a 0-0 stalemate when the two nations had collided; the Nicaraguans closed out group play yesterday with a 4-0 over the Bahamas.
Netting for Guyana either side of play yesterday was Samuel Garnett in the 41st minute and Captain Rajan Ramdeholl in the 62nd minute.
Acknowledging that the Cayman Islands side was an organised unit with much bigger players than Guyana in terms of stature, Head Coach Joseph said their plan was to play from the back and through the lines to create opportunities to score.
The Caymanians Joseph shared also did their home work on Guyana and came with a plan to press Guyana and force them to play long balls as they had the bigger players.
“However, we were able to break that press, I think they weren’t prepared to deal with the different options we had in terms of playing out of the back and we managed to play our style of football. I think we would have dominated possession for the most part.”
When Guyana hadn’t ball possession, Joseph informed that the players did well to retrieve same and constantly had multiple players battling to regain control of the action.
“As a result, Cayman never really had the chance to create anything of their own and were basically working off of giveaways and mistakes playing out of the transition. So I think our boys would have done very well, obviously, the work we would have done in establishing a philosophy that dominates possession of the ball, that showed up in eth game a little, not as much as the Bahamas game but obviously the opposition was more organized and better.”
The leading tactician acknowledged that there’s still a lot of work to do noting that the club style here is not one of holding possession of the ball.
“I am happy with the results today (yesterday), the boys are happy, we know that first game against Nicaragua when we were nervous, the boys were scared and dint play very well; that has cost us. But we’re happy with the performance; it looks like we’re improving from game to game.”
The young Guyanese will wrap up their campaign in the USA today when they oppose St. Kitts & Nevis which ended as the second placed team in Group G.
Guyana’s Starting XI: 1. Rajan Ramdeholl (C), 2. Romel Medas , 3. Travis Flatts, 4. Shoran James, 5. Shavid Hernandez (GK), 6. Antwone Vasconcellos, 7. Samuel Garnett, 8. Brandon Solomon, 9. Joshua Kesney, 10. Kevin Mullin, 11. Tyquan Brumell.
Substitutes: Dwayne Bess, Daniel Lowe, Devon Padmore, Sealon Sue, Oswin Archer, Colin Henriques, Marcus Tudor.

Points Table at end of Group E Matches
Country P W D L GF GA GD Points
Nicaragua 3 2 1 0 7 0 +7 7
Guyana 3 2 0 1 7 1 +6 6
Cayman Islands 3 1 1 1 1 2 +1 3
Bahamas 3 0 0 3 1 10 -9 0