It was perhaps predictably disappointing.
It just seems to be the way things are when Canada meets Haiti in soccer. Or when Canadian optimism and hope rises a little too swiftly.
It’s not as though Canada didn’t have chances to win this game and put daylight between themselves and Honduras, they did, but on a night when Tajon Buchanan and Ballou Tabla left their shooting boots at home, Canada were left thankful for an excellent display by last line of defence, James Pantemis, in securing the draw.
Pantemis could have been sat in the empty stands during a first-half in which he was idle, but the well-organized Haitians grew in confidence the longer the game wore on without concession, or the emergence of a consistent Canadian threat.