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Jamaica's performances at the Gold Cup was not as bad as some people made it out to be,had the circumstances been different we would be sitting in the quarter finals.The Boyz were unlucky to lose against canada after dominating the game and creating much the better chances.We lost that game because of poor finishing and tactical naiveity.Against Costa Rica we had them on the back foot up to the point where we went down to ten men,on another day with another referee that might've been a yellow card offence and who knows we might have gone on to win the game.We were poor against El Salvador yet we won that game and that kind of papered over the cracks.
There were some disappointing performances from some of the senior players namely;Luton Shelton-not good enough,Ricardo Gardener-not a central midfielder in a million years.Ricardo Fuller-poor finishing and lack of motivation,these 3 were our most disappointing players.
My main concern throughout the tournament was our players lack of motivation and drive and desire to put everything on the line for thier country and i sense that not everybody believed in what the coaches were asking of them and that's worrying.In my opinion Tappa was tactically naive by continueally playing Gardener in central midfield and also allowing him to waste our free kicks and corner kicks,playing 3 strikers who are too similar hence didn't have the ability to keep the ball,this affected our cohesion and kept handed back the advantage to our opponents.I've got no doubt if we had employed a 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 system we would've progressed in the competition.
Jamaica as missed a great opportunity and the JFF only have themselves to blame,John Barnes should've been given the opportunity to take the team to the Gold Cup after the great job he as done in the Caribbean Cup and the preceeding games where the boyz were looking like a well organised and well coached unit. That would've given us a better chance of success in the Gold Cup and also given Tappa an easier start.Lets hope Tappa is given the necessary support and the chance to develope into a top quality Coach enabling him to go on and be a legendary coach as he was as a player.
There were some disappointing performances from some of the senior players namely;Luton Shelton-not good enough,Ricardo Gardener-not a central midfielder in a million years.Ricardo Fuller-poor finishing and lack of motivation,these 3 were our most disappointing players.
My main concern throughout the tournament was our players lack of motivation and drive and desire to put everything on the line for thier country and i sense that not everybody believed in what the coaches were asking of them and that's worrying.In my opinion Tappa was tactically naive by continueally playing Gardener in central midfield and also allowing him to waste our free kicks and corner kicks,playing 3 strikers who are too similar hence didn't have the ability to keep the ball,this affected our cohesion and kept handed back the advantage to our opponents.I've got no doubt if we had employed a 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 system we would've progressed in the competition.
Jamaica as missed a great opportunity and the JFF only have themselves to blame,John Barnes should've been given the opportunity to take the team to the Gold Cup after the great job he as done in the Caribbean Cup and the preceeding games where the boyz were looking like a well organised and well coached unit. That would've given us a better chance of success in the Gold Cup and also given Tappa an easier start.Lets hope Tappa is given the necessary support and the chance to develope into a top quality Coach enabling him to go on and be a legendary coach as he was as a player.
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