By Rawle Toney in Houston, Texas
Despite today being Valentine’s Day, the Lady Jags will show no love to Guatemala, when the two teams collide at the BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston,Texas, on Match-Day two in Group ‘B’ of the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifier Tournament.

Both teams lost their opening matches in the group, with Guyana going down 5 – 0 to Canada, while Guatemala went down 2 – 1 to Trinidad and Tobago.
Guyana, by virtue of their defeat against Canada are -5 as compared to Guatemala’s -1, setting up today’s intriguing match which gets underway from 12:30 hours (14:30 hours GY Time).
In the game against Canada, Head Coach Mark Rodrigues started with Chante Sandiford (GK), Alison Heydorn, Briana De Souza, Kayla De Souza, Justine Rodrigues, Ashlee Savona, Ashley Rodrigues (Captain), Otesha Charles, Kailey Leila, Mariam El-Masri and Oliva Gonsalves.
Based on reports emanating out of the Lady Jags camp, the starting team is unlikely to see any changes, and with the exception of defender Kelly Butler (out for the rest of the tournament), the team has no injury worry. It will be the first meeting between Guyana and Guatemala in female football (men played twice) and one in which both countries will want to earn their first three points in the tournament, with a hope of winning another ,to be one of the two teams in Group ‘B’ to advance.
Apart from Sandiford (UMF Selfoss – Iceland), Charles (UK), Ruth George (Lil Diva’s – Guyana), Heydorn (Ann Arbor United – USA), Rodrigues (USA), Savona (USA), Danna Bally (York University – USA) and Derienne Busby (University of Evansville – USA), all of the other members of the Lady Jags play either professionally or at the collegiate level in Canada.

Their opposition, however, has a majority of their roster from home- based players, while the others feature for their respective Universities in the USA.
Against Trinidad, Guatemala put together a potent attack, which saw them scoring just 17 minutes into the contest from the penalty spot, in what is so far described as one of the most bizarre and highly questionable calls of the tournament.
However, while their (Guatemala) attack was strong, defensively, there was nothing to cheer about and if played the same way, the Lady Jags will have a field-day.
Charles and El-Masri are Coach Rodrigues’ main ‘marksmen’ but his daughter and captain Ashley (Rodrigues), and Savona could cause tremendous trouble for the porous Guatemalan defence.
Meanwhile, Group B’s two undefeated teams, Canada and Trinidad ,will face each other in today’s second match.
The United States have won the past three tournaments that determine the Olympic representatives from CONCACAF, and went on to win the gold medal in the last three Olympics.