Na­tion­al coach An­gus Eve has made four changes to his 23-man squad that played in the open­ing two match­es against Cu­ra­cao and El Sal­vador, ahead of the com­ing Con­ca­caf Na­tions League A clash with Guatemala on Fri­day (Oc­to­ber 13) at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain from 9 pm.

De­fend­er Alvin Jones, whose pre­vi­ous omis­sions raised eye­brows, has been re­called as well as mid­field­er Noah Pow­der, and strik­ers Ty­rone Charles and Re­al Gill.

All have been added to a rel­a­tive­ly fa­mil­iar squad picked by the em­bat­tled coach.

In­jured Mal­colm Shaw, who scored once in the two match­es, has had to make way for Charles while Brent Sam, the lanky De­fence Force strik­er who did not have trav­el doc­u­ments in time for the El Sal­vador match was re­placed by Gill, a skil­ful force up front.

Pow­der and Jones, on the oth­er hand, have been pre­ferred to the in­jured Shan­non Gomez and Daniel Phillips.

The So­ca War­riors de­feat­ed Cu­ra­cao 1-0 and then El Sal­vador 3-2 to put them­selves just two wins away from a quar­ter­fi­nal spot in the Na­tions League.

On Mon­day (Oc­to­ber 9), Eve con­duct­ed his first train­ing ses­sion at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la, a day be­fore he is ex­pect­ed to switch to the match venue to con­tin­ue prepa­ra­tion for the Guatemalans.

Ac­cord­ing to Eve, six play­ers Ryan Telfer, Pow­der, Aubrey David, An­dre Ram­per­sad, Ka­reem Moses and An­dre Ray­mond are ex­pect­ed to­day af­ter play­ing for their re­spec­tive clubs over the week­end.

Eve's changes came af­ter a slew of in­juries weak­ened his team. Guardian Me­dia Sports learned that goal­keep­er Nick­las Fren­derup is nurs­ing a shoul­der in­jury, Levi Gar­cia is down to in­jury, and Ke­ston Julien is re­cov­er­ing from surgery.

"Every­body else is in good spir­its, no oth­er play­er has any in­jury so for us, we know what Guatemala brings to the ta­ble. We've been watch­ing tapes on them so we're go­ing to pre­pare for that," coach Eve told the me­dia Mon­day.

He not­ed: "We want to win the game, it's not go­ing to be an easy game. Guatemala qual­i­fied for the quar­ter­fi­nal of the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup, they are a very de­cent unit, and they are un­beat­en in the zone so far, so it's not go­ing to be an easy game. They have a lot of com­pe­tent play­ers, they are well-coached, so we're not tak­ing any­thing for grant­ed."

Eve is hop­ing to build on the po­si­tion the team is in at the mo­ment, say­ing with two wins in as many match­es, "no­body ever thought that the team would have been" in that po­si­tion.

"So we want to keep on be­liev­ing in our­selves, be­liev­ing in the staff, be­liev­ing in the work that we have been do­ing and hope­ful­ly we can make T&T proud," Eve said.

He fur­ther called on the pub­lic to come out and sup­port the team, say­ing the play­ers de­serve it.

T&T TEAM:

GOAL­KEEP­ERS: Christo­pher Biggette, Jabari St Hillaire, Den­zil Smith

DE­FEND­ERS: Aubrey David, Ka­reem Moses, Jesse Williams, Justin Gar­cia, Ross Rus­sell Jr, Alvin Jones

MID­FIELD­ERS: Kaile Au­vray, Ne­veal Hack­shaw, An­dre Ram­per­sad, Michel Poon-Angeron, An­dre Ray­mond, Du­ane Muck­ette, Kris­t­ian Lee-Him, Kevon God­dard, Noah Pow­der

FOR­WARDS: Nathaniel James, Re­al Gill, Ryan Telfer, Re­on Moore, Ty­rone Charles