And while it's easy to focus on the brilliance of those goals - the truth is that McCauley's "go-ahead" goal saved Belize from a game that was going quickly downhill because the field strategy had fallen apart. The Dominicans had equalized in the 71st minute, and the defence was lacking. Many observers feel that is because Harrison Cafu Roches was taken out of the game to start the second half - and the less physical, less experienced and less warmed up Jordy Polanco was placed in the midfield. Today team captain Elroy Smith was candid when he told us that the coaching staff has to do a better job with substitutes:..
Elroy Kuylen
"Well the coaches, it's their responsibility to makes sure that kind of thing doesn't happens. They have to know what they are doing, how to do it and when to do it. With all respect to the coaches, the game was a tough game. So you have to think good about the changes you will make in a game like that. I think that first stage bothered us a little because the young boy wasn't fully warmed up. The man came up and did his thing but for the first 5 or 10 minutes he got in there, he wasn't fully warmed up and brought a big pressure on us."
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