Dominican Republic vs Haiti - prediction, team news, lineups

The combat for the CONCACAF Nations League A playoffs heats up erstwhile the Dominican Republic entertain Haiti connected Friday, October 2, astatine the Estadio Olimpico Felix Sanchez.

With some teams winning their opening 2 fixtures, the victor of this lucifer volition laic down a marker to suffice for the knockout signifier of the competition.  

Match preview

The Dominican Republic person started their Nations League A run positively, signaling victories implicit Nicaragua and much recently, Trinidad & Tobago. 

Marcelo Neveleff is approaching his 4th twelvemonth arsenic the caput manager of the Dominican Republic, and helium has enjoyed immoderate affirmative results during this tenure. 

After spending each their clip since its inception successful League B, Neveleff has pushed his squad each the mode into their inaugural League A campaign, and they look to beryllium enjoying it. 

The Quisqueyanos won their archetypal crippled against Nicaragua dramatically, requiring a 97th-minute onslaught from Pablo Rosario to onshore a 3-2 win. 

Neveleff's charges past followed that up with a 2-1 triumph implicit Trinidad & Tobago, the archetypal clip successful past that they person beaten the Soca Warriors. 

Having created overmuch past already, the location broadside volition beryllium backing themselves to proceed their blistery tally of signifier and marque it 3 wins from three. 

Haiti surely volition not prevarication down and let their hosts to locomotion distant freely with 3 points. 

Les Grenadiers already saw disconnected Trinidad & Tobago successful their archetypal Nations League outing, and they backed that up with a convincing 2-0 triumph implicit Costa Rica. 

Sebastien Migne volition cognize that 3 points successful this crippled are crucial, considering determination is lone 1 much fixture remaining aft this one. 

With 3 teams successful Group A owning 100% records, the request for 3 points successful this crippled cannot beryllium overstated. 

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Team News

Unused substitute against Nicaragua, Danco received a reddish paper for a post-match altercation, but having served his one-match ban, it remains to beryllium seen if helium volition beryllium brought backmost into the fold. 

Edison Azcona came disconnected the seat against Trinidad & Tobago, but helium received his marching orders aft conscionable 23 minutes connected the pitch. 

Neveleff is expected to support his squad mostly the same, with Mariano Diaz starring the enactment for the hosts, arsenic helium has already scored and provided an assistance successful some Nations League matches. 

Alexandre Pierre has been a reliable enactment for Migne successful the Haiti goal, and helium is acceptable to proceed starring from the back. 

Migne changed up his centre-back pairing past clip out, bringing successful Carl Sainte to partner Garven Metusala alternatively of Hannes Delcroix, but helium mightiness revert to the second for this one. 

Jean Ricner-Bellegarde came into the starting lineup for Costa Rica aft playing disconnected the seat successful their archetypal game, and helium justified his enactment with a goal. 

Wilson Isidor blanked the past clip out, but the manager volition apt instrumentality with him to pb the line. 

Dominican Republic imaginable starting lineup:

Valdez; De Lucas, Pujol, Dollenmayer, Firpo; Federico, Rosario, Lopez, Morschel; Romero, Diaz 

Haiti imaginable starting lineup:

Pierre; Arcus, Lacroix, Metusala, Experience; Bellegarde, Jean Jacques; Deedson, Picault, Providence; Isidor

We say: Dominican Republic 1-1 Haiti

These sides are rather intimately matched heading into this clash, with some signaling 2 wins apiece. 

It volition instrumentality thing peculiar to abstracted them connected the day, but with the hosts unbeaten successful their past 15 internationals astatine home, Haiti whitethorn conscionable person to settee for a point. 

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