Andrew Bascome watched his side dominate Bahamas and then said he would not be taking them lightly in the return leg on Sunday.

The Bermuda coach expects a side who have nothing to lose to attack from the outset and plans on Bermuda taking full advantage of that.

”We will stay organised, we will stay focused because there is another game to be played,” Bascome said. “We won’t take them lightly, we will make sure that we are hard to penetrate.

“They will have to come and attack us, so I’m hoping we can get in behind them, get an early goal and put them on the back foot.”

The early goal proved key last night as well, and Bascome said that Dante Leverock’s goal after four minutes had set his side up for an attacking performance that left him beaming.

“That early goal helped us to find our rhythm and then once we found our rhythm I thought we made good use of the field,” Bascome said.

“We made some pretty good decisions and once they went down a man I thought we just took total control.”

Bermuda were already three up by the time Happy Hall was sent off, but the red card ended any slim hopes that Bahamas might have had of making a comeback.

Dion Godet, the Bahamas coach, was not impressed with the decision, and thought the tackle on Nahki Wells warranted a yellow card at most.

However, he acknowledged that his side had been well beaten and was not sure how he his side will contain the “runaway train” that is the Bermuda team going forward.

“A red at this level, I don’t know. But the fact of the matter is that Bermuda brought a quality effort to the field,” Godet said. “From top to bottom, they knew what they wanted to do, they attacked from all angles and it was a comprehensive game of football.

“At the end of the night the better team won, and they play a brand of football that I like to see as a fan.”

Godet had just as much praise for Bermuda’s defensive effort, highlighting the performance of Leverock, who kept Ian Winder, the Bahamas striker, quiet for much of the night.

“I’m a defensive coach normally and I loved the way Leverock played,” he said. “I had a good, strong No 9, but he pounded on him. Kudos, that’s football, and I can’t be dismissive of that kind of quality.”

The Bahamas coach will now turn his attention to Sunday, and he will already have to make changes with Hall now beginning a three-game suspension.

“We need to improve our tackling. The third goal I was very animated because we kept backing off instead of coming to the ball. That was very annoying as a coach.

“We need to fix and control the middle, we need to win the battle there to contain what is a quality squad.”