This game has so much potential...however i say both teams park the bus, ends 0-0 and canada gets through with a better goal difference than el salvador Edit: Cuba sucks so that scenario no longer works for canada
We did but we were so inept yesterday that we failed. Guatemela's probably going to kick the living daylights out of Grenada which would put them at 4 pts, better GD than Canada. That would tie them with El Salvador, who's GD is 0 which means Tuesday's game is a must win. But here's the thing: Stephen Hart has known since March that Tuesday's game would probably be a must win and has had three months to prepare a strategy against Panama. Of all the teams that the coaching staff should've done the most research on, it should be Panama. There should be no excuses if we come out flat.
Only a one goal Guatamala win helps us out a little bit (or non win, but that seems more unlikely). As we may be able to get a scoring draw v. Panama) for the third position. Otherwise it's win and you're in, and we may still end up plaing Mexico with a win...damnit.
Should we win, we will probably still end up playing Mexico haha. We gotta hope for some sort of Guadeloupe miracle and a win over Panama to avoid Mexico.
noneless, canada its a very dangerous and hungry team. i have follow some of the canucks abroad.(they good) but they still need to prove themselves at the gold cup level. panama, well, they already proved, what they can do, in this gold cup.
To add to what I wrote earlier about Hutchinson. Apparently PSV Eindhoven is piling on pressure to shut Hutchinson down for the tournament. Yet it still isn't clear what the injury actually is.
Wait, so a Panama non-loss is enough for El Salvador to go through? The only way for SAL not to make it is by having Canada beating Panama. In this scenario, CAN and PAN would both be at 6 points (with CAN having the head-to-head tiebreaker UNLESS the USA also wins, in which case things get complicated). Regardless of what the tiebreakers are, La Selecta could be eliminated depending on who finishes 3rd. BUT if CAN ties with Panama, it doesn't matter what the USA does (if USA wins, CAN is 3rd and would have a worse goal differential than SAL; if USA ties, USA still finishes in 2nd place because of their head-to-head win over CAN, and if USA loses, Guadeloupe and the USA would both have 3 points with SAL already at 4).
All possible Group C scenarios here --> http://www.canadiansoccernews.com/content.php?1831-Group-C-breakdown
If CAN draws and USA wins, the scenario they have is incorrect. The standings would be: 1) PAN (7 pts) 2) USA (6 pts) 3) CAN (4 pts) 4) GPE (0 pts)
I just don't like out fate on the panamenians hands. Let's just remembered what happened in the qualifiers and the central American cup. I wouldn't be surprise if Canada wins. How ever based on our goal differential Canada needs at least a 2-0 score to advance. If they win by one we still advance based on our goals in favor. I really don't think Canada is a 2 goal better then panama. We will see, if they don't want to face us next round they will lose. Let's hope they have that in mind and want a revenge game against us. I know we can beat them outside of panama. Looking forward to that game. Let's go Panama, just this one time
Roman Torres is not playing, Neither is Machado (still recovering from that ugly spill vs GUA) .. Barahona & Penedo will be bench since they have 1 yellow already.. other than that it's the normal starters... Baloy has been very good in the back, and under control .. so has Gavilan Gomez.. I think Amilcar
My bad, I was looking at the wrong numbers. A Canada win and we are out. I don't think the US will lose or draw today