Lack of ex­pe­ri­ence and an un­clear sys­tem of at­tack and de­fence are the rea­sons for not on­ly a poor show­ing by the coun­try's fut­sal foot­ballers against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in the open­ing match of the Fut­sal CON­CA­CAF World cup Qual­i­fiers in Guatemala on Tues­day night but al­so for the em­bar­rass­ing 6-2 re­sult.

Clay­ton Mor­ris, the for­mer na­tion­al coach said the in­ex­pe­ri­enced showed in the game as play­ers strug­gled to play to the rules, but he was al­so try­ing to de­ter­mine what ap­proach to at­tack and de­fence was tak­en by coach Con­stan­tine Kon­stin, that may have been the team's biggest down­fall.

"The rea­son for the poor show­ing of our fut­sal na­tion­al team at Tues­day's CON­CA­CAF Cham­pi­onship game against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic was ba­si­cal­ly as I men­tioned be­fore, the in­ex­pe­ri­ence of our play­ers. It's very dif­fi­cult as I said be­fore, very chal­leng­ing to learn fut­sal in three months be­cause one of the main chal­lenges is adapt­ing to the rules, and look­ing at the game last night, the ba­sic kick­ing, on about five or six oc­ca­sions, we had to turn over the ball to the Do­mini­ca Re­pub­lic be­cause of not hav­ing the ball stopped be­fore it was played," Mor­ris, a for­mer na­tion­al de­fend­er with the T&T Strike Squad foot­ball team said on Wednes­day.

He added: "Ac­cord­ing to the tech­ni­cal and the tac­ti­cal as­pects of the game, you saw where one team was play­ing the square pass­es, about three or four pass­es square and then the third or the fourth go­ing for­ward, and then the rest of the guys join the post-up play­er, which is what hap­pened in the Do­mini­ca Re­pub­lic team. As in the T&T team, we were play­ing the ball di­rect, in oth­er words, we were play­ing the ball go­ing for­ward too ear­ly. So we weren't get­ting enough time to ro­tate.

"I don't want to be crit­i­cal of the coach's ap­proach, but I am not sure what ap­proach he had. I was try­ing to as­sess to see what plan we had to coun­ter­act what Do­mini­ca was do­ing, and at no time I saw that, more so on the de­fence.

"Fut­sal is a game that is about at­tack and de­fence, you must be able to de­fend and you must be able to at­tack. When you at­tack, every­body must at­tack. In fut­sal when you're in at­tack, all the play­ers are at­tack­ers and in de­fence, all the play­ers are de­fend­ers," Mor­ris ex­plained.

Con­cern­ing the coun­try's chances against Guatemala, the for­mer na­tion­al de­fend­er turn coach, said we do not have a chance against the Cen­tral Amer­i­cans, say­ing "As coach of the T&T team, we played against the Guatemalans and they play quick pass­ing, non-stop foot­ball. You will see for your­self," Mor­ris ex­plained.