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Originally Posted by GirlySports
New rankings
1. Mexico 1613 +10
2. USA 1530 -15
3. Jamaica 1441 +6
4. Costa Rica 1436 -6
5. Honduras 1368 +9
6. Canada 1339 +17
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7. El Salvador 1336 +9
8. Curacao 1323 +3
9. Panama 1310 -6
10. Haiti 1276 -1
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Nice.
Also, that's pretty decent but still a tightrope. If El Salvador wins their remaining two games against muppet teams they will add 9 more points and go 6 clear of Canada (result notwithstanding) with their campaign done - tells me if Canada gets a draw, maintains their lead or keeps it close and moves on to knockout rounds with the chance for more points they should be pretty much through no?
But if they lose and US makes knockout stage, they'll probably drop 3 or 4 points and be facing a gap of 9 or 10 points with no competitive games left. That's a tall order to make up in friendlies.
This next game against US seems almost all or nothing. Win takes them into the hex, tie makes them heavy favorites, loss and it's a huge mountain.
I read that while in round robin games you can lose or gain points, in the knock out stages you can not lose points even for a loss, and there is a third place game so Canada will have two high reward nothing to lose games if they can just make it through. If they avoid Mexico in round one will have a crack at both of Honduras and Curacao/Costa Rica who are all very beatable.