Lo­cal club, Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion will be con­fi­dent of seal­ing the lone au­to­mat­ic spot avail­able from Group One of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union qual­i­fiers to the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League (CCL) when it faces cel­lar-placed An­tigua Bar­racu­da in the fi­nal match at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va 6 pm to­day.

Cur­rent­ly, the Cou­va-based W Con­nec­tion which has qual­i­fied for the main draw of the CCL twice in the past, in 2009/2010 and 2012/2013 since the tour­na­ment was re­vamped eight year ago, sits at the top of its three-team round-robin group with three points fol­low­ing a 4-0 thrash­ing of fel­low Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League club, Neal & Massy Cale­do­nia AIA in the tour­na­ment's cur­tain rais­er on Fri­day at the same venue led by a dou­ble from So­ca War­riors de­fend­er, Jo­evin Jones.

Cale­do­nia, mean­while stayed in the hunt to qual­i­fy for the home-and-away qual­i­fiers for the sec­ond placed teams in the two group af­ter it whipped Bar­racu­da 3-1 on Sun­day.

Tonight, Jones who has been in omi­nous form over the last month is ex­pect­ed to once again lead his team's at­tack which al­so in­cludes Suri­name's Ste­fano Ri­js­sell, An­dre Pache­cho, Hashim Ar­cia, Clyde Leon and teenaged mid­field­er Jo­mal Williams against a Bar­racu­da's line-up which is with­out a win in its last four com­pet­i­tive match­es.

A win for W Con­nec­tion will see it earn the au­to­mat­ic spot straight to the CCL while Cale­do­nia will end sec­ond and face the run­ner-up from Group Two in a home-and-away play­off.

How­ev­er, Bar­racu­da's which cam­paigns in the US Pro Di­vi­sion League can al­so qual­i­fy, but needs a big win over W Con­nec­tion to do so.

A win for Bar­racu­da's over W Con­nec­tion, the three-time Caribbean Foot­ball Union Club Cham­pi­onships win­ners and four-time run­ners-up now tonight, which will see all three teams end­ing with three points, and the qual­i­fiers need­ing to be de­ter­mined on goal-dif­fer­ence.

While the crowds have been non-ex­is­tent over the first two match­es, W Con­nec­tion will for one night at least have the full sup­port of Cale­do­nia ac­cord­ing to the Mor­vant/Laven­tille based club coach Jer­ry Moe.

"Cale­do­nia will be there sup­port­ing W Con­nec­tion, hop­ing that they can pull off a win or even a draw against the An­tiguans," as­sured Moe yes­ter­day.

"A re­sult of that sort will send W Con­nec­tion through au­to­mat­i­cal­ly and give us a chance in the play­offs as the sec­ond place team," added Moe.

With re­gards to his own team's per­for­mances in their two match­es, Moe said they didn't play to their true po­ten­tial.

"When our boys play well, I let them know, and when they don't play too well, I al­so let them know," said the Cale­do­nia coach.

"We played flat and not as a team who had the chance of top­ping the group on Sun­day night. We need­ed to win by a wider mar­gin of goals and we didn't. We had all the pos­ses­sion but as the home team who re­al­ly need­ed the big win, we didn't play with enough ur­gency."

And while Cale­do­nia, last year's CFU Club cham­pi­ons sits in the wait­ing area, the tech­ni­cal staff will have to pre­pare for the pos­si­bil­i­ties as its re­main­ing match­es in the Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League where it still has a shot at

the ti­tle.

With two match­es left in the league Cale­do­nia is sec­ond with 39 points, four be­hind De­fence Force (43 points) and sev­en points clear of third placed and last year's cham­pi­ons W Con­nec­tion.

Moe said, "We gave the play­ers two days off be­cause next week we have a very im­por­tant (Dig­i­cel Pro League) match against Cen­tral FC. If by some mir­a­cle De­fence Force drop points, then we have a chance at the ti­tle. And if W Con­nec­tion wins on Tues­day against Bar­racu­d­as we'd have to pre­pare for the play­offs in May and al­so give some of the play­ers rest in be­tween. So we are think­ing long term and short term. But all that will be de­pen­dent on the re­sult on Tues­day (to­day) and Pro League re­sults on Mon­day."

Over in Kingston, Ja­maica, the fi­nal round of match­es in Group Two will al­so take place at the An­tho­ny Spauld­ing Sports Com­plex, Kingston will three clubs still in the hunt for qual­i­fi­ca­tion.

On Sun­day night, Hait­ian club Va­len­cia fol­lowed up its 3-1 de­feat of Puer­to Ri­co's Baya­mon FC 3-1 with a pul­sat­ing 4-3 win over Port­more Unit­ed to take a mas­sive step to­wards qual­i­fy­ing for the 2013/14 CCL, while Boys' Town reignit­ed its cam­paign with a 2-0 vic­to­ry over Baya­mon FC.

Go­ing in­to to­day's fi­nal round of match­es, Va­len­cia leads Group Two with max­i­mum six points, three ahead of the Ja­maican pair of Boys' Town and Port­more Unit­ed while Baya­mon FC is still look­ing for its first points.

Tonight, Port­more takes on Baya­mon at 7pm and needs a win to put pres­sure on both Va­len­cia and Boys' Town who clash two

hours lat­er.

Cur­rent stand­ings

Group One

Teams P W D L F A Pts

W Con­nec­tion 1 1 0 0 4 0 3

Cale­do­nia 2 1 0 1 3 5 3

Bar­racu­da 1 0 0 1 1 3 0

Group Two

Va­len­cia 2 2 0 0 7 4 6

Boys Town 2 1 0 1 2 1 3

Port­more Utd 2 1 0 1 4 4 3

Baya­mon 2 0 0 2 1 5 0

Re­sults

Sun­day's Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League/CFU Club qual­i­fiers

Group One

Venue: Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, T&T

Group One

Cale­do­nia AIA 3 (Ja­mal Gay 21st, Den­sill Theobald 34th, Key­on Ed­wards 90th) vs An­tigua Bar­racu­da 1 (An­dre Man­ders 88th)

Group Two

Va­len­cia FC 4 (Au­gustin Wal­son 6th, 34th, Jean-Robert Jean 34th, Joseph Roody 83rd) vs Port­more Unit­ed 3

(Sue-Lae Mc Calla 69th, Adri­an Reid 81st, Ri­car­do Mor­ris 90th)

Boys Town 2 (Mar­vin Stew­art 33rd, 53rd) vs Baya­mon FC 0

Re­main­ing fix­tures

To­day

Group One: Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, Trinidad

W Con­nec­tion (T&T) vs An­tigua Bar­racu­da (An­tigua and Bar­bu­da), 6 pm

Group Two: An­tho­ny Spauld­ing Sports Com­plex, Kingston, Ja­maica

Port­more Unit­ed (Ja­maica) vs Baya­mon FC (Puer­to Ri­co), 7 pm

Boys Town FC (Ja­maica) vs Va­len­cia FC (Haiti), 9 pm

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