It came around the 20th minute of the game: Derrick Etienne's first goal for the Haiti men's national team. A quickly taken free kick, no more than a short pass into space, sent the New York Red Bulls' midfielder into the penalty area with the ball at his feet. He curled his shot around the advancing 'keeper, and brought his team back into a match that had seemed to be slipping away from it quickly.
Post-match, Trinidad and Tobago head coach, Tom Saintfiet, said Haiti's (first) equalizer was the result of a "lack of fair play", suggesting Les Grenadiers had not returned the ball to his team after it had been kicked out to stop play for an injury to Soca Warriors captain Carlos Edwards, and had won field position unjustly.