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Coach Simoes plans on using a 4-5-1 formation when the Reggae Boyz
tackle Canada in World Cup qualifying this evening. The starting
eleven is Donovan Ricketts in goal backed by Ian Goodison and
Jermaine Taylor, Ricardo Gardner, Obrien Wodbine, Rodulph Austin
and Evan Taylor in central midfield, Demar Phillips at left and
Wolry Wolfe on the right with Andy Williams and Deon Burton up
front. Andy will play a withdrawn role in attack.
Simoes said he has used this
formation before against El Salvador and it worked perfectly
defensively. But he said it did not work so well offensively.
Simoes is confident in the
ability of his younger and more inexperienced players.
"I am with the team and I know
the players. They are ready. I can see it in their eyes; I know
when they are ready and I know when they are not. I am with them
every day," he told the Observer.
He noted that "so far
preparations have gone okay", adding that "we have the problem
that every team around the world has with players coming in...
just a few days before the game".
But having studied the Canadians,
Simoes has devised a plan to unsettle them.
"The way to play Canada is to take them away from their way of
playing. This is what we have studied and what we have discussed
with the Jamaican players is to interfere with the way they play
their game," he said.
"The players have adopted well to
the tactical approach that we are trying and this is because the
players now are more understanding of the game than those of the
1990s.
"They have been through a long
process and they understand now that football is not only about
when I have the ball at my feet, but I have to play with my brain,
and majority of them are now in a professional club where that is
the usual and the local players have been together for eight
months and they are aware of the situation." concluded Simoes.
Earl Bailey
Editor - www.JamaicaWin.com
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