Caribbean Cup: Haiti Defeat Bermuda 3 – 1
[Updated - Haiti win 3-1] The Bermuda National Football Team is presently in Haiti taking part in the first round of the Digicel Caribbean Cup Group 1 Qualifying Tournament. They lost 2-1 to Puerto Rico in their first match on Friday [Sept 7], and they are playing Haiti this evening [Sept 9].
Bermuda’s starting lineup is: Freddy Hall, Tyrell Burgess, Darius Cox, Khano Smith, Damon Ming, Andre Manders, Antwan Russell, Domico Coddington, Shakir Smith, Reggie Lambe and John Nusum. Coach Bascome has changed the formation to 4-5-1
Updates thanks to Anthony Francis is who texting from Haiti, press “F5″ key for latest updates:
Update #1: Haiti just scored about midway through the first half, and the score is now 1-0.
Update #2: The Haitian Crowd of well over 5000 were very happy with the goal
Update #3: In the 28th minute a Burgess left from 20 yards brought a good save from the Haiti stopper
Update #4: The Haitians are now upping the tempo
Update #5: Two quick fouls sees both Cox and Russell cautioned
Update #6: Tempers fraying on both sides as the tackles are increasingly hard
Update #7: Haiti scores again, the score is now 2-0.
Update #8: And Haiti scores again shortly after the second goal. Score is now 3-0.
Update #9: Bermuda’s first set piece is struck against the wall and Haiti counter at pace
Update #10: Darius Cox delivers a crunching tackle that brings the Haiti medical staff on the field
Update #11: Bermuda break down the left for the final attack of the half. Its now half time. Score 3-0.
Update #12: The second half starts with Bermuda going from left to right
Update #13: Haiti drives hard down their left and the cross is easily cleared by Burgess
Update #14: Bermuda is being made to defend hard with Cox, Ming and Nusum as the Haitian striker thrills the crowd with a run
Update #15: Haiti are in no hurry now as the crowd begins to count the passes
Update #16: Ming rushes a glorious change from behind 4 yards after getting behind the defense in the 54th
Update #17: In the 61st Khano draws a foul 26 yards out. Bermuda seems to have settled in the seconf half with more and more attacks.
Update #18: The Bermuda center back K. Smith and Nusum throwing their bodies at the ball to stop the latest Haiti onslaught. Game is 67 minutes in.
Update #19: 72 mins in and Haiti is patiently stringing the passes together
Update #20: Lambe is cautioned in the 74th min, Coddington in the 75th
Update #21: A Russell Lambe combination sees Haiti’s defense split wide open but the Lambe shot was blocked.
Update #22: Bermuda makes first substitution, Ming makes way for Raynor. In the 81st min Coddington and Russell combine quickly but Russell rushes the shot high
Update #23: A Nusum wayward pass sees Haiti attack hard, Khano covers to prevent harm
Update #24: In the 85th minute Bermuda silence the crowd with a composed Raynor finish. Score now 3-1
Update #25: Second sub for Bermuda, Simmons on for Coddington
Update #25: Game has ended. Score is Haiti 3, Bermuda 1.
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WHY WOULD YOU BRING LEJAUN SIMMONS ON IN D 90TH MINUTE. HE IS AH TALENTED PLAYER THAT DESERVES MORE RESPECT THAN THAT.
Should I say well done ? UUmmm NO .
Why are they down there playing? The BFA needs to increase the standard of the game at home before competing anywhere in any competition and being the laughing stock and embarrassment of the football world.
With respect to the “game at home” what role do/should the clubs play in increasing the standard?
Last time I checked the national body doesn’t put out teams for domestic competition….
Frank
New coaching team given less than 3 weeks to prepare a team for a tournament that the BFA Exec had on their schedule for over a year….this BFA Executive continues to be consistently inept….
Oh well, there goes the football rankings!!!!!! back to # 200 in the world. Thats even too high. I say 275 is realistic
The BFA is an honest joke. Look how long they took to make a decision on putting Brown and Bascome as the coaches. Without a doubt everyone knew those two would be the best fit to get the Bermuda National Team to a competing standard. But when you give coaches 4 weeks to form a team, which 2 of those weeks were trials based, how do you expect success? The BFA needs to take their heads out of their ….. and do what will benefit this Country. You would think they are tired of being slandered, but the reason they aren’t is because they try to put all the blame on the coaches, to them it is never their fault. I just continue to lose respect for the BFA and what they are about. Cal is the only one who isnt there for the money, and who is geared to better football in Bermuda. I refuse to represent this country at the senior level.
Well, I guess Haiti spent more $$$$$$ on development than we did.
ha ha….just because you sought to re-hash a previous discussion, Haiti has in fact spent 4 times more than we have on infrastructure around their national program AND have a population of around 10m.
Next?
um jus surprised that you of all pll are makin excuses, especially since we played 70s and 80s ball and you know it takes nothin more than raw talent and committment to score goals.
Not making excuses rather trying direct the discussion on to more solid and knowledgeable ground. In particular its time to stop referring our performance in the 1967 Pan Am Games as some indication of our rightful place in the football world.
Haiti along with Jamaica and Trinidad are in fact the top three teams in the Caribbean region. At the youth level add Cuba to make a top four.
Going into this mini-tournament I would have said 6 points would have been a fantastic result with 4 points being readily achievable (and should have been enough to see us go through).
We lost the PR game as a result of a specific, individual error and I reckon we should be able to get a positive result in the final game.
Reference your point above, it turns out my supposition about about investment and population still holds so what else you got?
Frank
I think you will find that the current senior national coach – inspite of the short window – decided to hold open trials, rather than focus 100% on preparing for the Haiti matches.
Also the main (only?) official rantionale for the Hogges from the BFA’s persective is that their 16 game schedule serves as match practice for the bulk of the national team. If that is true in anyway 4 weeks is plenty of time.
Armed with those two facts would you care to reconsider your criticism?
Frank
okay so its the BFAs fault that our boys that have been kicking with each other since primary school can’t play together and produce positive results
Now you are on to something…one of the things the BFA hasn’t done over the years is put in place a sustainable program of matches for the national teams at all levels….
I agree. The administration is behind!
Wow!! Its interesting to sit back and read all the arm chair critics and experts who speak up and offer their opinion as though they have 1st hand knowledge of whats happening here in Haiti during this tournament.
Also very disappointing, but expected, the negative comments from supposedly proud Bermudians. We are forever looking to put someone or anything associated with Bermuda down!!! This is the crabs in a bucket mentality that prevents us from uniting as a people and working toward progress in all areas!!
Too many who sit on the fence post, waiting for something to go wrong and complain, or jump on the band wagon when there is success. Support the team because they are Bermuda, and represent you the people.
Why is there this expectation or notion that we are a supposedly top football nation? Why do we just expect we should wins games and beat teams, just because we are from Bermuda and we play football? Unless you know with explicit detail what other countries in the region are doing to aid their sports development, you should refrain from making comments that assume they are not deservedly achieving success and results.
We all know the team lacked proper preparation, due to the late appointment of the staff. The concensus with players is that they want to be better prepared and are tired of the cycles that repeat themselves. This part we have to get right if we are serious about achieving a degree of measured and realistic success. The answer is not less support as many would suggest, but we need to be playing more consistent as a National team in the region against the likes of Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad. We will not be world beaters but we can be competitive in our region. The stop / start program of the national team has been going on for years, but still we expect to be of a standard better than others in the region.
All this talk about teams of the past from the 70s and how great Bermuda was, put it in perspective. Times have changed, and the teams that we reference we used to beat regularly have gotten better!!! Our population is one of if not the smallest, and we are isolated from others in the region, depriving the oportunity for consistent competition outside of the regional tournaments.
For those who think that we are so poor because we cant win against a nation stricken with poverty and full of earthquake victims please consider this:
* The Haitian team consisted of only 5 players who play football inside Haiti. 3 are starters.
* The team has 15 professional players, 13 players who play in professional leagues in Europe. Two from MLS. Most are playing in the French 1st and 2nd division leagues from teams like Nances and Paris St. Germain.
* 11 players in the Haitian national team grew up or were born outside Haiti. Either they left the country at an early age or were born to Haitian parents and qualify to represent Haiti. Most live in France were there is a high number of emigrants from Haiti. Check out this link to view one of the starters for Haiti in the match vs Bermuda
http://www.psg.fr/en/First-Team/300002/Player-sheet/1842/Maurice-Jean-Eudes
That being said, the team has played well considering the preparations and quality of opponents. Against Puerto Rico we were 10 secs away from a result that would have set us up with a chance to advance heading into our last game. The team was well organized and disciplined and despite not having all our players available we still were competitive playing good football. We really need to learn to close out a game, just as we lasped in the World Cup match vs Guyana. We cant make such errors at these critical times.
Against Haiti we were always going to be the underdog playing a strong team and the host nation. For 30 mins. we matched the Haitians with good organization, winning possesion and threatening with attacks. We displayed a brand and quality of football that the Haitian fans were respectful of. When they scored of a beautiful free kick that left Freddie standing and watching, we panicked and began to chase the game for an equalizer leaving ourselves expoused and allowing 3 goals in a 9 min. span. We were able to regroup during the 2nd half and return to our structured play that prevented the Haitians from scoring further, and managed to pull one back. The Haitian fans and media were very complementing of our team, wondering how we were able to play a team full of professionals so well.
This Haiti team is better than Trinidad in 2008 and 2012 qualifiers, and much better than the Haiti of 1992. They are technically proficient, physically dominating and tacticaly suave.
The only way for us to get better is to get preparation right, and play these teams consistently. We are playing better with each match, so imagine if we had a few games prior to coming down to play.
Bermuda please support Bermuda!!!