Cayman Islands technical director Carl Brown has blamed his team's woeful finishing for their World Cup qualifying exit at the hands of Bermuda.

Brown's battlers, who will look for revenge when they meet Bermuda in the Digicel Cup later this year, missed a glut of guilt edge opportunities during the frantic opening stages of Sunday's clash with 'keeper Timmy Figuerido in inspired form.

Former Reggae Boyz supremo Brown feels if his side had capitilised on their goalscoring chances then they would have surely booked their place in the next round against Caribbean powerhouse Trinidad and Tobago.

"I believe the match speaks volumes for how much we've progressed," he said. "In the opening minutes we missed three chances and had we put at least one away things might have been different."

With Cayman's 2010 World Cup journey now over, Brown will turn his focus to the Digicel Cup, with Cayman Islands hosting Group C including Bermuda and St Martin.

"We'll give the team a little break and get them back," he said. 'We have to get ourselves prepared and have some practice games because that is the way they'll grow. The team will now focus on the Digicel Cup."

Jeffrey Webb, Cayman Islands Football Association president, echoed Brown's sentiments regarding their profligacy in front of goal against Bermuda.

"I thought we had our chances and we just didn't put them away," Webb said.

"It's that simple. It's unfortunate but I think we can all be proud that the team has improved tremendously.

"I think the players will learn from this and get better and better.

"We have Bermuda back here in the Digicel Caribbean Cup along with St Martin."

Cayman's inspirational skipper Tom Elliott reckoned Bermuda had 'lady luck' to thank for their 3-1 victory, but admitted the 'Gombey Warriors' finishing was far superior.

"We could have been 2-0 up in the first 10 minutes and a few minutes later we were 1-0 down," he said. "I'm not pointing fingers, but we just needed a little bit of luck.

"Their first goal took a little deflection on the wall, Tuda parried it and (Sammy) DeGraff who is lightning quick, beat us to the ball.

"Their second, pure luck, a dinky little cross in, Martin Waud and the midfielder go up. He didn't even know where the ball was and luckily it went in the net and we were 2-0 down in the first 20 minutes. If we had scored from one of the first two options we had it would have been a different game but that's the nature of the game.

"I definitely thought we were always in it. Even when they scored two in the first-half that was lucky.

"And then they scored a third at the beginning of the second half, but we were still in the game. They were just that little bit sharper than us, I guess. They take their opportunities and take them well."

Trinidad and Tobago coach Francisco Maturana and his assistant coach Anton Corneal ran the rule over Bermuda at the Trueman Bodden Sports Complex, in Grand Cayman, in preparation for June's crunch doubleheader.

"We saw the game and we thought it was important to be here," said Corneal, who is son of top FIFA technical consultant Alvin Corneal, who assessed Bermuda's football infrastructure last summer.

"We know what we have to come up against and what we have to prepare for.

"We've played these two teams before so knew what to expect from them but in saying that no game is the same, we have to treat each team and each game with the respect it deserves."

Bermuda are scheduled to play Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup qualifying first leg on June 15, before hosting the return meeting at the National Sports Centre on June 22.