By Will Kuhns in Foxboro, Mass. Two days before the United States’ crucial World Cup qualifier against Jamaica (Sunday, 2 pm ET/live on ABC), opinions were quite mixed on how each team is going to approach the game. “Jamaica, especially in this game, is going to go forward a lot,” U.S. forward Landon Donovan said. “They’re just going to have fun. They have nothing to lose, really, so they’re going to try to entertain any fans they have there. They’re going to be carefree.” New England Revolution coach Fernando Clavijo posed a different theory on the Reggae Boyz. “They’re going to sit back, no question, because they know the U.S. has to come at them,” Clavijo said. “They’re going to look to counter.” Jamaica co-coach Carl Brown, however, does not expect his opponent to be much more aggressive in the attack than it was in the teams’ 0-0 tie in Kingston. “I think the USA is still in a very good situation … I believe, more than anything, that the USA will probably be very cautious to make sure that they don’t lose it.” Brown and several players mentioned that they are not lacking for motivation even though their prospects of qualifying are bleak. “The good thing is we are playing the USA,” Brown said. “We have never beaten them and I think that will be a motivating factor. Again, because of the association of some of our players with the American players, that is also motivation. … The U.S. team motivates us. I’m not certain the Jamaican team is seen in the same light as the U.S. team and these are the motivating factors.” U.S. coach Bruce Arena guessed that Jamaica will be compelled to attack. “The only way they can qualify is if they win their next two games, so they’re certainly not going to come in and play for a tie,” Arena said. “They can’t have a road mentality — a tie doesn’t do them any good.” The U.S. team scrimmaged the New England Revolution on Thursday and Arena was pleased with what he saw. “This team is doing pretty good this week,” Arena said. “That was only a practice game, so nothing more should be read into that. … Not only has it been a good week of training, but we have a very strong group of 22 players here. So that makes the decisions for not only the 11 difficult, but also the 18. We’re going to wait until Saturday to do that, which is generally a little late for us, because usually, the starting team is known two days in advance.” From his own squad, Arena would like to see better passing than it has shown in the past three games. “The way you create chances is not by formations,” Arena said. “You do it by passing the ball. If you can pass the ball and keep the ball, it means you can get people in forward positions and be dangerous. Previously we haven’t passed the ball well and haven’t kept possession of the ball as well as we need to. … We haven’t had the right balance of passers and workers in the midfield … and some roles have gotten distorted because of some of the players that were missing.” (Will Kuhns is an associate editor of Soccer America)