Boost­ed by their 2-0 win over Puer­to Ri­co in their open­er on Mon­day, T&T Un­der-20 So­ca War­riors will be con­fi­dent of se­cur­ing a spot in the 12-team Con­ca­caf U-20 Cham­pi­onships when they meet Haiti in a top-of-the-ta­ble Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) Cham­pi­onship fi­nal round Group A match.

This will be at the Wa­ter­house Sta­di­um, Kingston, from 5 pm (6 pm T&T time) to­day. Speak­ing af­ter his team's win on Mon­day over the Puer­to Ri­cans, coach Ross Rus­sell said he was anx­ious­ly look­ing ahead to to­day's en­counter with the Haitians, 2-1 win­ners over Cu­ra­cao in Mon­day's sec­ond Group A match, which could well de­ter­mine the even­tu­al group win­ner.

A win for the young So­ca War­riors, who will be with­out in­jured Adan Noel (ham­string), will most cer­tain­ly put Rus­sell's men in­to the 12-team Con­ca­caf fi­nal round next year in Puebla, Mex­i­co, from which the top four na­tions will ad­vance to the 2013 FI­FA U-20 World Cup in Turkey.

"It's quite ob­vi­ous that this game against Haiti could de­cide the group and we know tha t if we can get a vic­to­ry then it will put us through to the next round. But we would like to win all three games and we 've start­ed on the right note with the win to­day (Mon­day)," Rus­sell said.

Com­ment­ing on the win over Puer­to Ri­co, Rus­sell, a for­mer na­tion­al goal­keep­er and cur­rent coach of De­fence Force Dig­i­cel Pro League squad said, "I'm hap­py for the three points but it was a bit dis­turb­ing to see how poor we were in the fin­ish­ing de­part­ment and we will def­i­nite­ly need to work on that. I don't think the guys fol­lowed some of the in­struc­tions but a win is a win and we have to move on from here and try to get it right for the re­main­der of the tour­na­ment."

Cap­tain Du­ane Muck­ette, who missed a 22nd minute penal­ty for T&T agreed that his team need­ed to pol­ish up a bit. "The win was im­por­tant but I don't think we played as well as we should have.

"We missed too many chances to put the game out of their reach and a bet­ter team may not al­low us to get through like we did to­day. "Hope­ful­ly we can con­tin­ue im­prov­ing as the tour­na­ment goes on," added the for­mer Queen's Roy­al Col­lege and cur­rent 1st San­ta Rosa FC play­er.