T&T So­ca War­riors will be go­ing all out to pick up full points against the Ba­hamas when both teams meet in their sec­ond 2022/2023 Con­ca­caf Na­tions League (CNL) B Group C match at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo from 8 pm on Mon­day.

The meet­ing be­tween both teams will be on­ly the sec­ond-ever af­ter they bat­tled to a 0-0 draw in the first round of the Qatar 2022 Con­ca­caf World Cup qual­i­fi­er in Nas­sau on June 5 last year dur­ing the ill-fat­ed tenure of Eng­lish­man Ter­ry Fen­wick, which saw the team fail­ing to ad­vance from their five-team round-robin group which was topped by St Kitts and Nevis.

This clash al­so pits two teams on op­pos­ing tra­jec­to­ries, as T&T looks to over­turn their rel­e­ga­tion from League A and put an end to their 0-2-3 CNL record, while re­cent­ly pro­mot­ed Ba­hamas hope to ex­tend their five-match un­beat­en streak in CNL match­es.

Af­ter on­ly one match day, the So­ca War­riors find them­selves in a must-win sit­u­a­tion in the four-team pool af­ter los­ing their open­er on Fri­day night to Nicaragua 2-1 at the Na­tion­al Foot­ball Sta­di­um in Man­agua, Nicaragua, while the Ba­hamas edged St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, 1-0.

For tonight’s match, the So­ca War­riors will wel­come back head coach An­gus Eve, as well as USA-duo Noah Pow­der and Ne­veal Hack­shaw and lo­cal­ly-based goal­keep­er Jabari St Hillaire of Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers, who all missed the away match due to dif­fer­ent rea­sons.

How­ev­er, Eve is ex­pect­ed to be forced in­to one change to his team, with Turk­ish-based de­fend­er Shel­don Bateau be­ing forced off with a late in­jury against the Nicaraguans, mak­ing his sta­tus for tonight and the up­com­ing two match­es St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, ques­tion­able.

Jo­evin Jones, Mar­cus Joseph, Tris­tan Hodge and Mekeil Williams have been re­placed by Jameel Nep­tune, Re­on Moore, Radan­fah Abu Bakr and Nicholas Dil­lon in Mon­day’s clash.

In Eve’s ab­sence, fel­low for­mer na­tion­al cap­tain and mid­field­er Reynold Car­ring­ton led the team and look­ing ahead to the match against Ba­hamas Car­ring­ton not­ed that there was no time for much prepa­ra­tion or pon­der­ing on the loss against Nicaragua.

Team cap­tain and goal­keep­er Mar­vin Phillip ad­mit­ted that a short time be­tween match­es will prove to be a bit of a chal­lenge with fix­tures against St Vin­cent and the Grenadines to come as well on June 10 and 13 in Arnos Vales and Mu­cu­rapo, re­spec­tive­ly.

T&T squad

Goal­keep­ers: Mar­vin Phillip, Jabari St Hillaire, Den­zil Smith;

De­fend­ers: Ka­reem Moses, Shel­don Bateau, Aubrey David, Shan­non Gomez, Alvin Jones, Ke­ston Julien, Radan­fah Abu Bakr;

Mid­field­ers: Kevon God­dard, Justin Sadoo, Michael Ked­man, Le­ston Paul, Noah Pow­der, Mo­lik Khan, Kai­him Thomas, Daniel Phillips, Ne­veal Hack­shaw, Du­ane Muck­ette, Ju­dah Gar­cia, John-Paul Rochford, Re­al Gill, Jabari Mitchell, Nicholas Dil­lon, Jameel Nep­tune;

For­wards: Levi Gar­cia, Re­on Moore.