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Today's Internationals...

The Oceania Championship between New Zealand and Solomon Islands. Match begins at 12 pm central time.

The winner qualifies to take on CONCACAF's fourth place team in the Intercontinental Playoff in June.

CONCACAF matches

All games at 8:05 central time

Panama at Canada
Canada has already qualified for the World Cup. Panama missed out on qualification. The loss to the USMNT hurt them but what really wounded them was the home draw against last place Honduras last week.

United States at Costa Rica
The USMNT hasn't qualified yet but they have a huge goal differential advantage. How much?

USMNT need to win, draw, or lose by 5-0 or less to advance directly to the World Cup.A forfeit is a 3-0 loss. Just sayin'!— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) March 28, 2022

Costa Rica has been getting points by parking the bus defensively and considering they have a few folks with yellow card issues I don't expect the Ticos to be aggressive so they'll likely play for the draw, and the Intercontinental Playoff against the Oceania Champ unless...

El Salvador at Mexico

El Tri hasn't qualified yet either and they have a +4 goal differential versus Costa Rica as well. I expect them to qualify easily unless Chaos happens and El Salvador gets a quick 2-goal lead. Yeah, that's unlikely especially since El Salvador has nothing to play for.

Honduras at Jamaica

I could say it's the battle for last place but Honduras can't catch up to Jamaica but maybe they can finally win a match in the Octagon.
 
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So if I’m understanding correctly, there’s basically no chance of a repeat of the Trinidad fiasco from four years ago, right? Worse case scenario the US would at least be in the playoff against probably New Zealand? And even falling that far is very unlikely.
 
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That's hilarious about the forfeit. I get that, but we need to qualify in style with at least a point tonight, if not 3. I don't want to back into it on goal differential.
 
Maroon Eagle

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Yep. Perhaps the most famous recent example was Germany's 7-1 demolishing of host Brazil in the 2014 World Cup semis...

Link: Here.
 
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With them in a position to make 4th place and with a huge goal differential to overcome, I see this being a draw. Like you’ve said, their style of play doesn’t bode well for trying to pour on the goals.
 
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They've got nothing to lose. They've clinched 4th and could get 3rd with a 5-0 or better win (they'd get us on head-to-head goal difference with a 5-0 win) or if Mexico loses to El Salvador and they win and make up a 4-goal differential vs Mexico. I see this going 1 of 2 ways. Either they just go for it and commit everything offensively and it's a high scoring blowout one way or the other (most likely a USA blowout), or they accept that they're 4th no matter what park the bus and it's a boring 0-0 draw.
 
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Maroon Eagle said:
Costa Rica has been getting points by parking the bus defensively and considering they have a few folks with yellow card issues I don't expect the Ticos to be aggressive so they'll likely play for the draw, and the Intercontinental Playoff against the Oceania Champ unless...
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I think this is the biggest factor in the game. The odds of Costa Rica winning by a 6 goal margin are very, very slim so I think they play the odds and sit or limit the PT of their key players who are on a yellow card. The odds of them beating New Zealand/Solomon Islands in a one game playoff with a full strength side are much better than beating the US by a 6 goal margin.
 
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Do yellow cards carry over to the play-in game? If so, then you're definitely right. If I'm Costa Rica any player on a yellow won't play tonight.
 
Maroon Eagle

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Weird aside here.

I can’t click in and see my 12:05 response to you about the Yellow Cards.

I don’t know if my copy and paste in the quoted material messed up the coding or if it’s my iPhone.

Oh well.
 
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They do carry over.

(Thanks, DS, for the help here and removing my previous comment here— I didn’t think it’d mess up the thread when I did that copy and paste…)
 
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Final Score: New Zealand 5, Solomon Islands 0.

New Zealand faces the CONCACAF 4th place team in the Intercontinental Playoffs at Qatar in June.
 
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Berhalter is right. It's crazy to suspend a player for a 2nd yellow card in a 14-round qualifying tournament. It's crazy, but Costa Rica's best play would be to sit all 9 players sitting on a yellow card and make tonight's game a farce. And of course, as mentioned earlier, the USA's 100% guaranteed way to qualify is to just forfeit. They really need to rethink the qualification rules and tiebreakers.
 
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DesotoCountyDawg said:
With them in a position to make 4th place and with a huge goal differential to overcome, I see this being a draw. Like you’ve said, their style of play doesn’t bode well for trying to pour on the goals.
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Draw is +220 FWIW if you like betting soccer. I just took it.
 
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Costa Rica sitting 5 players on a yellow card. Looks like they’re playing it smart & playing for the New Zealand game. Good for the USA, but you hate to see them having to do that. Especially since FIFA wiped out the yellow cards for the European teams.

BTW, watching the pre match show & Kate Abdo is still 🔥🔥🔥
 
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In the first half:

1-0, Mexico over El Salvador. Antuna with the goal in the 17th minute.
1-0, Honduras over Jamaica. Tejada converts the penalty in the 18th.
 
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Halftime

USMNT 0, Costa Rica 0
Jamaica 2, Honduras 1
Mexico 2, El Salvador 0
Panama 0, Canada 0
 
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Yeah. They’re good.

Panama takes the lead against Canada in the 49th minute, 1-0.
 
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This is embarrassing. And a perfect example of why it’s been so hard to really get behind this team the last 5 years. For every big win, there’s a WTF loss. The potential is there though.
 
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Yep. It’s almost like Mullins coaches soccer. **

Larin’s 80th minute goal makes the score 1-1 between Canada & Panama.

VAR override. Still 1-0 Panama.
 
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That was most likely the plan.

Get a little practice in and don’t overdo things.

Qualification is the goal, not victory.
 
Maroon Eagle

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USMNT qualifies for the World Cup.

Mexico also qualifies for the World Cup.

Costa Rica versus New Zealand in the Intercontinental Playoff in June.

World Cup Draw is Friday.
 
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