GIO17
04 Apr 2005, 02:15 AM
Well folks we have Costa Rica in Salt Lake City June 4th, At Panama on June 8th, then in Hartford against T&T on August 17th and finally the return leg of Mexico in Columbus On September 3rd.
Right now we can say a possible 9 to 12 points available. 6Pts at the moment does anyone think we will have the 2nd spot or 1st spot after the Mexico match if the boys take care of business in all the home matches & that one road match in Panama before going on the road in Guatemala?
dfb547490
04 Apr 2005, 02:36 AM
Anything less than 12 points from these 4 games is completely unacceptable.
Do that and we're at 18 with 3 games to go. Last time we finished 3rd in the Hex with 17 points. 18 points after 7 games might or might not mathematically seal up qualification, but either way with a home game against Panama still remaining I won't be losing any sleep (if we can steal a point or 6 in the games at Mazatenango or Saprissa, great, but I don't think we can count on being able to do that given the corruption that runs rampant in CONCACAF). With 10 points we'd be sitting at 16 and probably still be OK, but honestly all 4 of those are games we should win. Any less than 10 points and we're looking at needing to get a result at either Guatemala or Costa Rica, which means we're in trouble.
The other thing here is that we need to be pulling hard for T&T and Panama in their games against Guatemala and Costa Rica (which I'd be doing anyway as I like T&T because of their awesome fans and don't give a crap one way or the other about Panama, whereas I hate Costa Rica because of their classless goon fans and Guatemala because of Ruiz).