WAL­TER AL­IBEY

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

wal­ter.al­ibey@guardian.co.tt

T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier I cham­pi­ons T&T De­fence Force FC will hope to re­bound from their 2-1 loss away to Ja­maica Wray & Nephew Pre­mier League cham­pi­ons Cav­a­lier FC when they host Bar­ba­di­ans Wey­mouth Wales in their penul­ti­mate Group B clash at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, from 8 pm.

The Army Coast Guard Civil­ian Com­bi­na­tion team had its fi­nal train­ing ses­sion at the game venue yes­ter­day and will need to win tonight to have a chance of be­ing among the top two teams that will progress out of Group B.

Coach De­vorn Jorsling has had to make a few ad­just­ments in his de­fen­sive struc­ture, and he told the me­dia, “The mind­set now is that every­body has changed. The guys are ful­ly fo­cused and com­ing out to per­form to­mor­row. I be­lieve once the fo­cus is on giv­ing a good per­for­mance, the three points will come. I think to reach this stage of the tour­na­ment, they (Wey­mouth Wales) have to be a good team. They have their strengths and their weak­ness­es, so it’s just for us to go and im­pose our style on them,” Jorsling, who took over from Den­sill Theobald, told the me­dia yes­ter­day.

Ex­pe­ri­enced T&T de­fend­er Shel­don Bateau will en­ter the De­fence Force back­line as a re­place­ment for Justin Gar­cia, who is on loan with a for­eign club. He will join Cur­tis Gon­za­les. While in at­tack, Jorsling is hop­ing that out-of-form Isa­iah Lea­cock will re­gain the form that helped the team cap­ture Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League a few months ago.

The De­fence Force, win­ners over Ju­ven­tus Des Cayes of Haiti in their tour­na­ment cur­tain-rais­er last month via a 1-0 re­sult, has three points from two match­es, the same as Wey­mouth Wales in the joint third spot, one point be­hind Cav­a­lier FC, while Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Cibao FC sits top of the ta­ble with six points from two match­es ahead of their clash last night with cel­lar-placed Ju­ven­tus Des Cayes at the Es­ta­dio Cibao FC in San­ti­a­go de los Ca­balleros, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

Fol­low­ing to­mor­row's match against the Bar­ba­di­ans, the De­fence Force, who won the Caribbean Con­ca­caf Club ti­tle back in 2001, will end the round-robin play away to Cibao FC of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Oc­to­ber 1, while Wey­mouth Wales en­ter­tain Cav­a­lier al­so on Oc­to­ber 1.

TO­DAY’S MATCH

De­fence Force FC vs Wey­mouth Wales, Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, 8 pm

Cur­rent Group B stand­ings

Teams P W D L F A Pts

Cibao FC*2*2*0*0*4*1*6

Cav­a­lier*3*1*1*1*3*4*4

Wey­mouth Wales*2*1*0*1*3*3*3

De­fence Force*2*1*0*1* 2*2*3

Ju­ven­tus Des Cayes*3*0*1*2*2*4*1