Trinidad and Tobago will attempt once again to defy the odds when they tackle Italy in their second Group A encounter at the Cairo International Stadium from 6:45pm (12:45pm TT time) on Monday.

The game is of utmost importance to both teams as the Italians will be aiming for three points which should put one foot for them into the second round while T&T will be hoping to grab their first three points to keep their hopes of advancing alive.

 Italian head coach Francesco Rocca says his team will not underestimate Trinidad and Tobago when both teams meet tomorrow (Monday) in their second Group A encounter at the Cairo International Stadium from 6:45pm (12:45pm T&T time)

The Italians have already attained a point with their 0-0 draw with Paraguay on Friday and Rocca said he was happy with his team’s start.

 Trinidad and Tobago’s National Under 20 footballers came face to face with their Italian counterparts upon arrival at the Fairmont Hotel in Cairo on Friday afternoon as both teams settled in for their live-in camp for the remaining two games in Group A of the FIFA Under 20 World Championship.

T&T arrived at the hotel which is described as being built around a stunning landscaped atrium, offering guests to Cairo the ultimate in luxury and service, located five minutes away from Cairo International Airport.

 A picture, they say tells a thousand words. But in football a scoreline doesn’t always tell the proper picture.

That was how skipper Leston Paul and his teammates would have been feeling at the end of the opening match of the 2009 FIFA Under 20 World Championship played before a partisan home crowd of 74,000 at the Egyptian Army Stadium, Alexandria on Thursday night.