PBP: 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship: USA vs. Honduras 11/19 8:00 ET

OK, so be the first to pick our two best in your opinion and see if Honduras targets them to confirm your choice!

 

The US have qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, but need at least a draw to advance to the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship final on Wednesday.

Honduras need to at least lose by 3 goals or less or by 4 goals while scoring at least once to advance to the World Cup which may mean that they will not show much attacking intent.

 

There's very little incentive for either team to show up to this one

My prediction is we send out the B team. Honduras will be happy with the most boring 0-0 draw in the history of the sport.

I know people want to win this U20 CONCACAF Championships, but the health of our players is more important than that trophy.



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Send in the B team but make sure to grab a quick goal at the start. That will spook Honduras enough to keep them cooped up in their half the rest of the game.

Honduras will probably go for counterstriking at first. Will try to grab a goal to make us desperate.

 

https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/usm...side-with-place-in/19fg2kturggsw1ad99c80keoeu

A preview from Ives ...

My emphasis and (parenthetical, although star works for me)

 

Is Lindsey healthy? He got injured in the warm ups against CR and had to be pulled from the starting XI.

 

He probably saw Costa Rica practicing slide tackles in warm ups and thought “I don’t need this”......

 

He probably got slide tackled by a Costa Rica player DURING warmups!

 

Let's keep the dubs coming. 👊

Meet the U-20 #USMNT starting XI taking on 🇭🇳 at #CU20! » https://t.co/pdW9AKYGy3 pic.twitter.com/v7eIzh5gJE

— U.S. Soccer YNT (@USYNT) November 20, 2018

 

Mexico takes the other finalist spot on fair play points after a 2-2 draw with Panama.

This means that the US need to win the tournament to claim the NAFU spot at the 2019 Pan American Games (which is a U-23 plus 3 overage tournament). Whether the USSF would accept it is another question. CONCACAF also has one discretionary pick for that tournament.

 

Looks like we are going for the win. Good.

 

Amaya... not a fan. Would rather see Pomykal in midfield and Rennicks on the wing than Amaya.

 

How do I watch this?

 

My reading of the competition rules surrounding yellow card suspensions (page 34) is that a player can serve a yellow card suspension in the final for card accumulation in the qualification stage. Dest and Servania both have yellow cards from the Costa Rica game.

 

https://www.concacafgo.com/cu20c

You'll have to register but it's free and easy.

 

Here in english (free registration) or Univision Deportes

 

Direct Concacaf Go game link: https://www.concacafgo.com/cu20c/live/db8c39de-5d29-4a68-97dc-1c99fc414eb1

 

Lines up like:
Ochoa
Dest-McKenzie-Richards-Gloster
Servania
Mendez-Amaya
Akinola-Soto-Pomykal

 

H definitely looking for the counter.

 

Yuck, Honduras sitting back, the US not really doing much other than have McKenzie try longballs.

 

Please stop launching balls to Akinola...

 

Forever. Whenever he’s in, barring most of last game, the whole game usually devolves into that crap.

 

Not super impressed with the midfield so far.