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Why we need a striker like Kyle

play in Sunday's World Cup tie against Antigua at National Stadium.Kyle could prove to be just what we were missing at the Recreation Grounds in St. John's.

play in Sunday's World Cup tie against Antigua at National Stadium.

Kyle could prove to be just what we were missing at the Recreation Grounds in St. John's.

The draw was a great result for us, but in the last 15 minutes we had three clear cut chances. A couple of them fell to young John Barry Nusum. He's learning and hopefully next time he gets chances he will be able to take advantage.

We don't want those missed opportunities to come back and haunt us.

I'll be on the phone to Kyle this week to check if he will be available. We really have to start taking our chances and he will help us do it.

I'm not sure if David Bascome, who missed the first leg through injury, will be fit for Sunday but we will definitely be trying to get him back.

On Sunday, we'll be able to throw caution to the wind as we go for a home win.

Every time you travel away from home in international soccer, it's hard to get a result. So I'm over the moon that we didn't get beaten.

We conceded no goals and so left ourselves with a great chance of advancing.

So let's finish the job off at the National Stadium, I'm sure we will.

Their player getting sent off certainly had a big effect. Sometimes teams can play better with 10 men but not this time.

After that was when we created our best chances, so it really helped us.

We changed our line-up in the second half from a 3-6-1 to a more conventional 3-5-2 formation and we seemed to play a lot better.

Like I told the guys before the game, when you go away from home, things will not often go for you and no one is going to lay down and let you play. So you've got to roll your sleeves up and really work hard.

One or two people didn't do that but they're stll young and hopefully they will learn from it.

In the second half we really dominated the midfield, in the first half, not so much. Once we changed the formation things improved greatly.

It was nice to play on a good surface away from home particularly after a poor pitch in the BVI. I would say it was the best surface for soccer I have ever seen in the Caribbean region.