[UPDATED] Women Warriors crush Turks and Caicos 13-0

THE Trinidad and Tobago senior women’s footballers will only need a draw in their final Group F match against Guyana on Tuesday to advance to the next phase of the 2023 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign after thrashing Turks and Caicos 13-0, on Saturday.

The Concacaf Women’s Championship Qualification match was played at the TCIFA National Academy in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.

TT will play Guyana next at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet on Tuesday, from 6 pm.

TT will only need a draw to top Group F and advance to the next phase of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualification campaign which is the Concacaf Women’s Championship. The World Cup will be held in Australia and New Zealand.

Chelcy Ralph led the way with a hat-trick for TT against Turks and Caicos.

Ralph opened the scoring for TT in the sixth minute, before the experienced Lauryn Hutchinson made it 2-0 in the 14th minute.

Ralph scored her second goal in the 17th minute to give TT a comfortable 3-0 lead.

TT skipper Karyn Forbes got on the score sheet in the 33rd minute and Cecily Stoute made it 5-0 in the 35th.

A goal by Liana Hinds (41st) and another by Forbes (45th) gave TT a commanding 7-0 advantage at halftime.

The goals kept flowing for TT in the second half as Maya Matouk found the back of the net in the 49th minute. Matouk was on target again in the 65th minute. TT were relentless as Raenah Campbell converted a penalty in the 72nd minute and national Under-20 player Maria-Frances Serrant made it 11-0 in the 76th.

Ralph completed her hat-trick in the 82nd minute and Campbell grabbed her second goal and rounded off the scoring in the 86th minute.

TT head coach Kenwyne Jones was satisfied with his team’s effort.

“I am glad, I am pleased with the performance of the team,” Jones said. “We had a mandate of not to score more goals to get on top on goal difference, but to win the game firstly. Also, I was more concerned in the way that we performed in order to win the game.”

Jones highlighted some of the reasons why he decided to give other players an opportunity to play. The tight schedule of the matches is one of the reasons.

“The fact that we have two games in such a short space of time it is something that we have to deal with. Also for the bigger of the two games (against Guyana) as it’s labelled we wanted to be able to give players the opportunity to get some game time in.” Asha James, who has been one of TT’s best players in the campaign, remained on the bench.

TT will be aiming for a win against Guyana said Jones, despite only needing a draw to progress to the next round.

“Drawing the match is not what we are about. We want to win every game in this round of qualification.”

Jones said TT will not focus on all the hype surrounding the match against Guyana as it’s being seen as the “clash of the top two.”

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THE Trinidad and Tobago senior women’s footballers will only need a draw in their final Group F match against Guyana on Tuesday to advance to the next phase of the 2023 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign after thrashing Turks and Caicos 13-0, on Saturday.

The match was played at the TCIFA National Academy in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.

Chelcy Ralph led the way with a hat-trick.

Ralph opened the scoring for TT in the sixth minute, before the experienced Lauryn Hutchinson made it 2-0 in the 14th minute.

Ralph scored her second goal in the 17th minute to give TT a comfortable 3-0 lead.

TT skipper Karyn Forbes got on the score sheet in the 33rd minute and Cecily Stoute made it 5-0 in the 35th.

A goal by Liana Hinds (41st) and another by Forbes (45th) gave TT a commanding 7-0 advantage at halftime.

The goals kept flowing for TT in the second half as Maya Matouk found the back of the net in the 49th minute. Matouk was on target again in the 65th minute.

TT were relentless as Raenah Campbell converted a penalty in the 72nd minute and national Under-20 player Maria-Frances Serrant made it 11-0 in the 76th.

Ralph completed her hat-trick in the 82nd minute and Campbell grabbed her second goal and rounded off the scoring in the 86th minute.

TT will play Guyana at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet on Tuesday, from 6 pm.

TT will only need a draw to top Group F and advance to the next phase of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualification campaign.

The World Cup will be held in Australia and New Zealand.