USA blanks Soca Warriors 5-0 in Gold Cup opener
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June 16, 2025NIGEL SIMON
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T&T ‘Soca Warriors’ defensive frailties were exposed once more as coach Dwight Yorke’s men suffered a 5-0 loss to host USA in their Group D opener of the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup at San Jose Earthquakes Stadium in San Jose on Sunday.
The ‘Soca Warriors’ entered the match on the back of a 2-1 loss to Costa Rica in their second-round Concacaf World Cup qualifier on Tuesday last but still advanced to the final round, where they will face Jamaica, Curacao and Haiti in Group B, while the last outing against the USA ended in a 2-1 home win on November 16, 2023.
However, the Americans, who crushed the Soca Warriors 6-0 in their Concacaf Gold Cup group meeting in 2023 and also registered the same result as in 2019 to add to three previous wins – a 2-0 win in June 2007, a 3-2 win in January 1998 and a 2-1 win in June 1991 – were in no mood to suffer such an outcome once and took the game to the visitors from the first while.
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