Trinidad and Tobago no threat for England

Yesterday I watched on telly a friendly between Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) versus a young Wales team. Although the Caribbean islanders controlled the games, they nevertheless lost to Wales by two goals to one.

T&T had some interesting moments in the game. Their wing-backs were good in going forward. In Chris Birchall, they have a good midfielder who has a wicked shot and is full of running. He is very ably assisted by their veteran playmaker Russell Latapy. And their goalkeeper looks steady.

Up front, Stern John looks good in air but he missed some easy chances too. T&T’s only known name is striker Dwight Yorke but he is used by the team to play in a deep midfield role.

I don’t see them troubling England too much in their group match on June 15. England have enough fire power and midfield control to win this game easily.

I also managed to catch some highlights of friendly games played by Paraguay. They looked uneasy with the high balls Norway were pumping into the D box in the friendly with ended 2-2 earlier last week and yesterday again failed in the same area in their 1-1 draw with Denmark.

The Paraguayans however played some dangerous counter-attacks.