T&T Un­der-17 men’s foot­ball team will go all out to score as many goals as they can when they are up against Group B whip­ping boys Sint Maarten of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship Qual­i­fiers at the Es­ta­dio Na­cional in San Jose, Cos­ta Ri­ca, from 6 pm on Thurs­day.

Go­ing in­to the match,. the Shawn Coop­er-coached T&T Un­der-17s sit third in the five-team pool with four points from two match­es, the same as Guyana, while host Cos­ta Ri­ca leads with a max­i­mum of six points, with British Vir­gin Is­lands fourth with three points from as many match­es, and Sint Maarten in the cel­lar spot with­out a spot af­ter three match­es as well.

At the end of the round-robin group se­ries, on­ly the win­ners of the eight re­spec­tive groups be­ing con­test­ed across the Con­ca­caf re­gion will qual­i­fy for the 2025 FI­FA U-17 World Cup from No­vem­ber 5 to 27 in Qatar, which will be the first to fea­ture 48 teams.

And with a fi­nal day clash against the Cos­ta Ri­cans to come on Sun­day from 9 pm, Coop­er will be keen for play­ers to bol­ster their goal ag­gre­gate.

In their two match­es to date, the ‘goal-shy’ T&T drew 1-1 with Guyana in their open­ing match be­fore beat­ing BVI 3-1 with all the goals for the young So­ca War­riors com­ing in the first half.

Sint Maarten, on the oth­er hand, was out­classed in their three match­es to date: 4-0 by BVI, 12-0 against Cos­ta Ri­ca, and 3-0 ver­sus Guyana, and should pose no re­al dan­ger for Coop­er’s men.

In the Group B sec­ond match tonight, Guyana tack­les host Cos­ta Ri­ca with both teams ea­ger to con­tin­ue their un­beat­en run with the aim of top­ping the group on Sun­day to qual­i­fy for Qatar.

Wednes­day’s re­sults

Group A

Cu­ra­cao 2 vs Turks & Caicos 0

Cana­da 8 vs An­guil­la 0

Group B

Guyana 3 vs Sint Maarten 0

Cos­ta Ri­ca 5 vs British Vir­gin Is­lands 0

Group C

Bar­ba­dos 1 vs Do­mini­ca 0

Mex­i­co 3 vs Be­lize 0

Group E

Haiti 5 vs St Vin­cent and the Grenadines 0

Guatemala 2 vs An­tigua & Bar­bu­da 1

Group C

Be­lize 7 vs Do­mini­ca 0

Nicaragua 6 vs Bar­ba­dos 0

To­day’s match­es

Group A

Cu­ra­cao vs Cana­da, 3 pm

Turks & Caicos vs Bermu­da, 8 pm

Group B

Sint Maarten vs T&T, 6 pm

Guyana vs Cos­ta Ri­ca, 9 pm

Group C:

Do­mini­ca vs Nicaragua, 2 pm

Bar­ba­dos vs Mex­i­co, 5 pm

Group E

An­tigua & Bar­bu­da vs Haiti, 6 pm

St Vin­cent and the Grenadines vs Guatemala, 9 pm

Group B stand­ings

Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

Cos­ta Ri­ca*2*2*0*0*17*0*6

Guyana*2*1*1*0*4*1*4

T&T*2*1*1*0*4*2*4

BVI*3*1*0*2*5*8*3

Sint Maarten*3*0*0*3*0*19*0