Saint-Martin thrashed the Bahamas 0:8 in their CONCACAF Nations League League C - 3 fixture on Tuesday night. The result came on 23 September 2026, and the scoreline told the whole story from the first whistle to the last.
Axel Rigobert Raga opened the scoring in the fifteenth minute, and by then the visitors had already established control. Jordan Alexandre doubled the lead just five minutes later, and Étienne Gagnon, who watches the whole match and remembers minute twenty, noted how the momentum shifted. Yanis Montantin added a third in the twenty-third minute before Michael Butler turned the ball into his own net in the forty-first.
Changes came thick and fast after half-time. The Bahamas brought on Belony Dumas, David Chevalier, Jonathan Miller and Michael Butler all in the forty-sixth minute, but the damage was done. Raga struck again in the fifty-second minute, and then converted a penalty in the sixty-third. Bertrand Pierre Arne rounded off the scoring in the eightieth minute.
The statistics painted an even starker picture. Saint-Martin held 63 per cent possession and registered 11 shots on target compared to the Bahamas' zero. The home side managed just one corner in the entire match and failed 92 passes, while the visitors completed 448 of their 514 attempts.
This was not a match where chances went begging for the visitors — they simply ran through the opposition. The Bahamas have now lost their last four fixtures, including that 0:8 defeat to Costa Rica back in June, and the gap in quality was visible in every phase of play.
What stood out was not the goals themselves but the manner in which they came. Saint-Martin carved them open without breaking a sweat, and the hosts switched off at the back time after time. And here's the thing — you can see it in the numbers, but you also see it when you watch the game unfold.
