 Right, welcome back to the Sports Mag Zone. We're starting this Wednesday edition of the show with football. The Dominican Republic's Moka FC have qualified for the first round of the Kanka Gap Champions Cup after seeing off Jamaican side Harbour View 3-2 on aggregate in their Caribbean Cup 3rd place playoff. The teams ended one-all in the second leg in Santiago de los Caballeros on Tuesday night. Moka won the first leg to one in Kingston last week. Well, Harbour View were inches away from forcing a penalty shootout, hitting the crossbar and having the subsequent effort blocked in the dying moments. Joining us to review yesterday's result is General Manager of Harbour View FC Clyde Good afternoon Clyde. Good afternoon Mariah. Good afternoon Ricardo. Good afternoon to all of you. Thank you so much. Welcome to our show. You were there yesterday in Dom Rep with the team. Talk to me about how close to the Harbour View team was but of course unable to close out this one. Very close. Very good effort from the team, from the coaches, from the managers, from everyone on staff. And as your clip just showed there, we played 90 minutes, we led 1-0. They equalized I think about three or four minutes after we scored and then we went for it again because we're trying to snatch a 2-1 victory as they did here. That would then extend the game into extra time, two halves of 15 minutes each and then possible penalties. And we favored our chances the longer the game went as it was. We were pushing that envelope and when six minutes of time were added, the last kick as your clip showed there was from God Stewart turning in the penalty area after he scored the opening goal, hitting the crossbar, the ball came back to Shaquille Bradford on his birthday, December 6th, had that shot on goal, that's Stewart and that's Bradford and the player was in the goal and was cleared from the goal line and the officials said that they couldn't confirm that all the ball went over the line so that last effort and that stroke of time was not awarded to us and we would have gone 2-1 and gone to 30 minutes more at a time which we think being in season and then not in season for the last month would have been tipped in our favor with that momentum to go on and to win that game. Yeah, really, really unfortunate everything just working against but Clyde you know apart from you know not progressing to where you wanted to to the next level, what are some of the positives that you take away from this Harbourview team seeing them in action and as I say again you were there live so who's got to see them up close? Definitely, it's a new squad we lost all our top six attacking players in the pre-season of the 2023-24 Premier League season so attacking forks has been blunted, three of the players went to an international contract, one went to another Jamaican club in Port Moore, one went to Port Moore, one also went to Cavaliers and then we rejigged and they have been clicking well enough and been scoring goals regularly, came up with a goal again last night, couldn't come up with two and it has given them a chance to gel early, gel longer and to find some combinations and that has been going well. Our disappointment has been our strong rock that we have defended on for the last two to three seasons of our defence but we just at this moment for the last nine or ten games has just found a way to to be given up goals and that is the major concern of our team performance at the moment. We still have some of our senior players there, still have some new youngsters coming in but the combinations again like last night once we take the lead we're not holding on and defending the advantages we have for long enough period of time or keeping clean sheets and that has detoured us from getting the results we need as we did again last night. Yes so much was on the line last night Clyde, an opportunity to qualify to the first round of the Conker Keff Champions Cup with that now out of the way, what's the outlook for this Harbourview team? Well the outlook is to look internally at the Jamaica Premier League. We get back into action this weekend coming I think we have more lines united to go up against. The same form has been involved locally scoring a goal or two. We have had two, two, two shots but we're still giving up goals and that is what we have to fix. The team is getting better, more understanding, battle hard, the team spirit is good, the effort is getting better and we expect the performance to to click in to top performances pretty soon. So local Premier League is where it's at. Yeah you know as you know we carried the Jamaica Premier League competition and in a discussion with one of our analysts a week or two ago I made the point that the teams who played in the Conker Keff Caribbean Cup tournament have not started the Premier League flying and the Harbourview would be one of those. Can you pinpoint exactly why? Because from my standpoint I definitely felt because you were already in competition that you probably would have made a faster start to the JPL season. That's usually true Ricardo and that's what we would have expected at Harbourview being one of the three clubs. So let me tell you about Harbourview first. That Achilles heel no matter what level you're playing if you're giving up goals you're at a disadvantage and you're at an endurance sense and we have been giving up goals not just one but two and very often. So that's our personal technical problem and tactical problem that we are working to correct first and foremost that's Harbourview. Two other clubs have been there don't be holding. I think it's fair to say that Coach Lenny Hyde is new to this team this year and they haven't found their right blend as yet even though they are winning games while we are not but don't be holding like us would have been expected to have started out at a brisk of pace with advantages as a Premier League club who has been in the Conqueror of Caribbean Cup. The third is Cavaliers. Cavaliers like us have been having to balance and concentrate and get consistent performances while playing games in Kiatow so we have been playing not just two games weekly but three games weekly and sometimes the concentration the fatigue and the focus and Cavaliers like us have been more focused initially on the Conqueror of Caribbean Cup. That's what my suggestions would be for the three performances thus far. Right and you know let's turn our attention now to the Cup Final where Cavalier is set to host Suriname's Robin Hood at Jamaica's National Stadium this evening. Robin Hood have a one-nil advantage thanks to Demetro Andrews 69th minute goal in last week's first leg. Clyde how much of a chance do you give Cavalier to turn this one on its head this evening. I give them a big chance. Watching the game last last week between both clubs it was a thrilling game. The man of the match for Cavaliers was their goalkeeper. The man of the match for Robin Hood was their goalkeeper. So both teams went for goals both teams had good defensive network both teams had good transition both teams had a new a number of opportunities in goal modes and both teams goalkeepers came up big until that wonderful strike there made a difference. Cavaliers it's if you're going to lose the best way to lose is by a one-nil margin and that's what you have. So the first goal in this game is going to be big. If Cavaliers can get that first goal and Cavaliers in this performance this year in the Conqueror of Caribbean Cup have been noted to score goals in bunches two's and threes and they score them at the beginning of the half and they score them at the end of the first half. So if they can get into that big and score goals one or two they're right in it and their defense they tend to close ranks their strong point is their defensive network and counter attacking transition. If they can get that game in their favor they're on a good path. But this Robin Hood team we would say we have said earlier in the season this to us is the best club in the competition performing. We played them we beat them three two inside the National Stadium but it was a battle of exchanges. We were finishing well even though conceding goals two in that game we finished well and outscored them three to two. I think Cavaliers showed last week that they have the capability to do the same need to do that tonight. Yeah and I was reading a Jamaica Observer article and of course Cavaliers sporting director Rudolph Speed is quoted as saying you know the team is very optimistic just like you said you know they think they have a really good chance at closing this one out winning but they have to be very very aware you know he said they're not the other team is not going to give up their advantage so it's something that they really have to fight for. Do you agree with that. I agree with that and that's what our final should be as was our third place player for last night. You need to put everything on the line. You need to to to show defense transition attack possession tactics technique. You need to show the whole thing in the game and see who performs better on the net. And I think we saw that last night I think we saw that in the first final of the playoff when Robin Hood came out at home as they usually do by a goal. Now let's see if Cavaliers can use their strong home advantage to do the same. They have been doing it well all the season in the Concord Cup of Caribbean Cup. They need to do it tonight. All right Clyde well I want to thank you so much for stopping by on the Sports Mac soon. We'll chat again soon and looking forward to see who comes out trumps in tonight's match. Yes. Thanks for having me. All the best. Thank you. And you should cover this all the best as well. Thank you so much Clyde Juridini there. We're going to take a quick break and when we come back we have a really exciting topic to talk about so don't go anywhere.