Trinidad and Tobago’s dream of making a second World Cup appearance is fast becoming a nightmare after a listless 1-0 home loss to CONCACAF hexagonical group leaders Mexico on Tuesday.
Diego Reyes’ sealed victory for the Mexicans with a second-half header, to send his team clear on nine points. Trinidad and Tobago were regulated to cellar dwellers on three points as a result.
Reyes, scored his first international goal off a Miguel Layun corner.
The Mexicans were not without luck however as a first half strike by Trinidad and Tobago’s Joevin Jones was incorrectly ruled offside. Just after 30 minutes, Jones was sent through down the left and drove home from an acute angle, but the officials would have none of it.
Mexico gradually gained the ascendancy in the second half and semed to turn off the throttle after Reyes opened the scoring.
Mexico made five changes to the team which beat Costa Rica on Friday, while, the hosts made just one change, brining in Aubrey David to replace Carlos Edwards in defence.
The visitors went close to opening the scoring in the 18th minute when Hernandez and Raul Jimenez combined, but the former missed the target with his header.
In other CONCACAF qualifying matches the United States and Panama drew 1-1 and Honduras and Costa Rica finished with the same result.
