World Cup: CONCACAF

Mexico and Costa Rica had already qualified. USA needed a point against T&T or that Panama or Honduras did not win. Panama needed a win to secure playoff and to threaten USA about third place.

All these three team started bad. After 1st half USA were down 2-0, Panama were down 1-0 and Honduras were down 2-1 against Mexico. Panama equalized in 52 minute bringing them up to 11 points one behind USA and 1 ahead of Honduras. Honduras responded with equalizer against Costa Rica in 53rd minute giving the following table

3. USA          12 +4
4. Panama    11 -2
5. Honduras 11 -7

Seven minutes later, in the 60th minute, Honduras score 3-2 and jumped up to 3rd place, leaving USA 4th and Panama now out. In the 88th minute Panama scored a winner, which means they jumped up to third and Honruas finished 4th.



Group

	m	+/-	points	avg. simulated p	Playoff	World Cup
Mexico	10	+9	21	21.0	100%	100%
Costa Rica	10	+6	16	16.0	100%	100%
Panama	10	-1	13	13.0	100%	100%
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Honduras	10	-6	13	13.0	100%	29.0%
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United States	10	+4	12	12.0	-
Trinidad and T	10	-12	6	6.0	-

Honduras will play against Australia in the intercontinental playoff.