Jamaica's Reggae Boyz will be hoping to break a worrying four-game international losing streak when they face regional rivals Honduras in that Central American country this evening at 8 o'clock.

Since a CONCACAF Gold Cup 2-0 quarter-final shutout against the United States at Washington's RFK Stadium in June, the Reggae Boyz have gone on to lose to China (1-0), Ecuador (5-2) and Colombia (2-0) in tough away fixtures.

The team's head coach, Theodore 'Tappa' Whitmore, has remained calm in the face of the defeats.

According to him, they will not feel pressured to deliver a positive result in the warm-up fixture.

"There is no pressure, we are building our team for that (World Cup) campaign and we are going to come against tough opponents. So we will lose some and we will win some, so we have to be patient and take it from there," Whitmore said after a team training session ahead of their departure from Kingston.

quality games

"Nobody wants to lose, especially with a federation like ours where we want to stay up in the FIFA rankings so that we can get quality games," he added. Jamaica will start their World Cup campaign late in 2012.

The Boyz are ranked 45th in the FIFA rankings, while the Hondurans are rated 53rd and the last time both teams met in group play at the Gold Cup, Jamaica came out 1-0 winners on the back of a scorching left-footer from striker Ryan Johnson inside the Red Bulls Arena in New Jersey.

For much of that game, practically all of the opening 45 minutes, the Jamaicans bossed the play with some slick play as they put on one of the best displays for quite some time.

In that game, Whitmore had made a host of changes to his starting 11 as the team had already qualified for the second round of the Gold Cup. Midfielders Keammar Daley, JeVaughn Watson and Damian Williams, who are numbered among this Jamaica squad, were influential members of that changed team that ran rings around Honduras for the opening hour.

Despite the brilliance paraded that night, that combination has never been assembled again and will not get the opportunity this time, with many different players rostered for this encounter.

Among them are Marvin Elliott, Marcus Bean and Nathan Smith, the newest band of British recruits seeking a place in Whitmore's World Cup group.

There are also core members of the group like Shavar Thomas, Jermaine Taylor, Demar Phillips, Jason Morrison, Richard Edwards, Rodolph Austin, Dane Richards, Omar Cummings, Luton Shelton and goalkeeper Dwayne Miller.

Shelton is battling an injury and remains uncertain, which means dangerous front-line duo Cummings and Richards should lead the attacking force.