Josiah Edwards scored in injury time to help secure a 1-1 draw for the T&T Under 15 team against American club DC United in their closing group encounter at the Cayman Airways Invitational Under 15 Youth Cup on Friday night in Grand Cayman Islands.
T&T fell behind to an early second half goal by DC United but never let their heads down, battling to get themselves back into the match thereafter. The result left them with two draws and one defeat from their three games and they will play a final game against Cayman Islands national under 15 team today at 3pm. The semi finals have been set with Cavaliers facing Cuba and Manchester City taking on IMG Academy.
The goal for Edwards of Brazil High School, was his second of the tournament after he struck the equalizing goal in last week’s 2-2 draw with Manchester City. Coach Russell Latapy said afterwards that he was somewhat pleased with the team coming back to earn the draw.
“We got a late goal once again to help ourselves to a result and credit to the boys for that. But again, I felt there were moments in the game that we didn’t capitalise on and we found ourselves having to chase the game,” Latapy said.
“I would like to see us be more clinical in some of the things that we are doing and control the game to the tempo we would like it played, but again it’s an experience for the boys where they are picking up more with every game we play, which is good as we prepare for the Concacaf Championship in a couple months time. We had an opportunity to play against three very good teams so far with kids coming from a fully professional setting with their academies and have been together for long periods, so it turned out to be a good test for us out here,”Latapy noted.