Ahmed Mohamed, the Barbados coach, said his homework paid off after his side completed a remarkable comeback against Bermuda at the National Stadium on Saturday.

Barbados, trailing by two goals at half-time, fought their way back into the game and struck twice at the death to condemn the home side to a miserable defeat.

Mohamed, a former US Virgin Islands coach, said he had watched Bermuda’s most recent matches against New York Cosmos, Canada and Grenada to prepare for the friendly.

“I knew they liked to press coming over the wing,” said Mohamed, whose side are scheduled to play Bermuda again next year as part as part of a home-and-home arrangement between the two island’s football associations.

“We had our difficulties covering the site, especially number 4 [Roger Lee], number 10 [Zeiko Lewis], number 11 [Willie Clemons] and 18 [Marco Warren], who kept interchanging with each other.

“After that when saw where the gaps were ... it was a nice, tough game. It had some spice to it.”

For Mohamed, the win was a case of “mission accomplished” for his young team.

“At half-time I told the players, ‘We are here on a mission and that’s to make the long, long way to victory over Bermuda,’” said Mohamed, whose side included just three players older than 24.

“That was our main goal and thanks to the young gentleman Dishon Howell, just 16 years old, we got mission accomplished.”

Mario Harte, the Barbados captain, put his team’s slow start down to jet lag.

“The legs weren’t there and we were doing a lot of chasing,” the midfielder said. “We knew if we could get a goal we could get back into the game. We came out in the second half and fought. When we got that we went for the kill.”