[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by octothorp

So the second round is set. Interestingly all groups finished with the same configuration of one team with 3 wins, one with 2, one with 1, one with 0. Which makes the second round seem like a foregone conclusion... I'm not sure I see any team that is not currently 3-0 advancing to the final round... maybe Australia, but even they'd have to beat Georgia and Slovenia. The group that has the weakest 3-0 team (Dominican Republic) also has the weakest 2-1 team (Puerto Rico) so not much of a chance of an upset there.

Canada's next game is Friday at 7:30am, against Brazil. A win vitually assures them of advancing to the QFs (apart from some unlikely scenarios like where Canada loses to Spain by a huge margin, and Spain loses to Latvia by a huge margin, and Lativa beats Brazil). Raptors fans will recognize one of Brazil's key players, Mr Two-Years-Away-From-Being-Two-Years-Away, Bruno Caboclo, who has carved out a really nice role on their national team. He just might have a chip on his shoulder.

Let's go Canada!!!