WCQ: Third Round - Window 4 (January 27- February 2, 2022)

[footballfreak]

 

6 minutes ago, narduch said:

In 2014 qualifying Mexico were in the Intercontinental playoff.

Perhaps it's time people stop assuming they will always waltz through Concacaf and qualify. 

After this cycle, CONCACAF is set to have something like 6 automatic spots and 2 playoff spots. Mexico is never missing another World Cup, unless they change the format back or they get banned for overage youth players again.

Edit: it’s only 1 playoff spot after 2026. The extra playoff spot goes to the host confederation.

Edited January 31, 2022 by footballfreak

[dyslexic nam]

20 minutes ago, jonovision said:

Is this a fact?

I remember reading that Bayern will be cautious about his return and that he may be out for a couple of months.  So not confirmed but I am prepping for the worst - and I think Tajon should have been as well.  

[cornerkick]

ok... so not sure if this belongs in a new thread, but what is the plan for the MNT during the summer?  organize a camp or two, and have some friendlies across the country? 

[Strait Red]

Just now, cornerkick said:

ok... so not sure if this belongs in a new thread, but what is the plan for the MNT during the summer?  organize a camp or two, and have some friendlies across the country? 

Nations League

[maplebanana]

34 minutes ago, JAVIERF said:

A Canada triumph and Mexico draw and you are qualified.  Don't see a Mexico draw, they will defeat Panama or Martino is out

This is .... not true? 

Even if we win and Panama loses, we are 8 pts up on them with 3 games to go.

[VinceA]

8 minutes ago, cornerkick said:

ok... so not sure if this belongs in a new thread, but what is the plan for the MNT during the summer?  organize a camp or two, and have some friendlies across the country? 

We won't probably do friendlies until the fall and those will probably be our victory your.

[JAVIERF]

3 minutes ago, maplebanana said:

This is .... not true? 

Even if we win and Panama loses, we are 8 pts up on them with 3 games to go.

It is just done.  Cooked

[CanadianSoccerFan]

Honduran fans are ole'ing El Salvador's passes around the pitch.  Yikes.

[maplebanana]

1 minute ago, JAVIERF said:

It is just done.  Cooked

I'm not commenting on likelihood. I'm saying it's not clinched. 

[rydermike]

El Salvador takes a 2-0 lead

[JAVIERF]

4 minutes ago, maplebanana said:

I'm not commenting on likelihood. I'm saying it's not clinched. 

Jamaica federation stated last week that if they are out after Costa Rica they would call up mostly a home based players for the last fixtures

[Floortom]

5 minutes ago, rydermike said:

El Salvador takes a 2-0 lead

Good lord how bad is Honduras to lose 2-0 to El Salvador at home.

I dont understand how they can be this terrible

[Gian-Luca]

Just remember that Honduras, with arguably the worst final round qualifying performance in Concacaf WCQ history, was gifted this spot in the Ocho, and were if not for a COVID- caused format change, we wouldn’t even be here but fighting for a chance to play the 4th team. 

[rydermike]

And Honduras is the first team to bite the dust

[CanadianSoccerFan]

The forecast in Minnesota for game time Wednesday night is -16 celsius!!!  Good lord!  The Hondurans might not bother showing up at this rate.  

Edited January 31, 2022 by CanadianSoccerFan

[dyslexic nam]

17 minutes ago, rydermike said:

And Honduras is the first team to bite the dust

And that makes me smile just a bit more. 

[Free kick]

22 minutes ago, Gian-Luca said:

Just remember that Honduras, with arguably the worst final round qualifying performance in Concacaf WCQ history, was gifted this spot in the Ocho, and were if not for a COVID- caused format change, we wouldn’t even be here but fighting for a chance to play the 4th team. 

As it stands now the unwashed sides (ie.: the sides that were not gifted a spot in the ocho and would have been relegated ONLY to the intercontinental route) currently sit 1st, 4th and 6th. 
 

Now it looks like two of those three sides will qualify, which would have been impossible in the pre pandemic format.

Edited January 31, 2022 by Free kick

[footballfreak]

33 minutes ago, maplebanana said:

This is .... not true? 

Even if we win and Panama loses, we are 8 pts up on them with 3 games to go.

Eating dinner so I’m not about to type out all the permutations, but the other poster is right. A win against El Salvador and a Panama-Mexico draw clinches, but a result either way would not.

In the event of a draw, we would not clinch finishing ahead of Panama, but that scenario would preclude all three of USA, Mexico and Panama from finishing ahead of us because of the games remaining between those three.

[JAVIERF]

2 minutes ago, footballfreak said:

Eating dinner so I’m not about to type out all the permutations, but the other poster is right. A win against El Salvador and a Panama-Mexico draw clinches, but a result either way would not.

In the event of a draw, we would not clinch finishing ahead of Panama, but that scenario would preclude all three of USA, Mexico and Panama from finishing ahead of us because of the games remaining between those three.

That's what I said,  it is all cooked if you get the 3 from El Salvador and they draw in Mexico

[CanadianSoccerFan]

1 minute ago, Free kick said:

As it stands now the unwashed sides (ie.: the sides that were not gifted a spot in the ocho and would have relegate ONLY to the intercontinental route) currently sit 1st, 4th and 6th. 

I also think Haiti and Suriname were hard done by drawing us in the prelims.  

 

We'll never know for sure but I suspect if Suriname made the Oct there would have been substantially more Dutch recruits.

[thehabsfan]

I could be wrong, but on Wednesday wouldn’t a Canada win, US loss, Panama loss, and Costa Rica tie/loss also clinch Canada a top 3 spot?  I don’t think the US will lose to Honduras but you never know.

[footballfreak]

2 minutes ago, thehabsfan said:

I could be wrong, but on Wednesday wouldn’t a Canada win, US loss, Panama loss, and Costa Rica tie/loss also clinch Canada a top 3 spot?  I don’t think the US will lose to Honduras but you never know.

I believe that’s correct, but I’d have to check.

[Free kick]

4 minutes ago, CanadianSoccerFan said:

I also think Haiti and Suriname were hard done by drawing us in the prelims.  

 

We'll never know for sure but I suspect if Suriname made the Oct there would have been substantially more Dutch recruits.

Surinam would have been better than some of the sides we saw in the Ocho. 

[JAVIERF]

5 minutes ago, CanadianSoccerFan said:

I also think Haiti and Suriname were hard done by drawing us in the prelims.  

 

We'll never know for sure but I suspect if Suriname made the Oct there would have been substantially more Dutch recruits.

Kind of , as for Curaçao.  Jamaica is underperforming because their Federation is run by muppets.  They have very good players but there isnt any cohesion in the team.  It is like they don't know each other, they are guessing passes etc.  On paper Panama has less good players than the Jamaicans, but they have a spine, and a team.  Jamaica needed an Argentinian or Uruguayan coach.  

Edited January 31, 2022 by JAVIERF

[footballfreak]

Full card update coming shortly, but the only important bits from Canada’s perspective are Vitoria’s suspension (not that he would have played), and Bryan Landeverde being out for El Salvador.