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With all groups through 2 games, some interesting story lines developing at U20's
US is taking care of business, granted it has been against vastly inferior teams (we got a very good draw w/ our group)
CONCACAF performing so-so. US is only team to clinch a spot in the knockout round and sitting atop their group; Panama is bottom of their group, but it's all very close. A win over 1st place Ghana will pretty much assure them of advancing to knockout phase...easier said than done; Mexico is bottom of their group (in fairness, it's actually a 4 way tie on points, Mexico -1 gd has them in last, while 1st place Serbial is only +1 in gd..so much to play for all the teams in this group in their final group matches); Honduras completely spit the bit v. Fiji last night, getting smoked and putting them in pretty much a must win v. Germany to advance to knockout rond;
Group D (Mexico) is the most evenly matcehd of the groups. All 4 teams are tied w/ 3 points, so HUGE matches on Saturday of Mexico v Serbia and Uruguay v Mali. All to play for.
In knockout round, the US will either play:
- if we finish 1st in group A (win or draw v Ukraine): 3rd place team out of Group C, D, or E which would be one of Senegal, Colombia, Serbia, Mali, Uruguay, Mexico (doubt they'd match us up with Mexico in first knockout round); Hungary or Nigeria.
- if we finish 2nd in group A (lose to Ukraine): the runner up of group C which is most likely Colombia or Portugal, and a longer shot of it being Senegal (if they smoke Qatar and Portugal beats Colombia).
Whoever it is, odds are the US faces it's toughest test of the Cup in the first knockout round, as our group was relatively weak.
US is taking care of business, granted it has been against vastly inferior teams (we got a very good draw w/ our group)
CONCACAF performing so-so. US is only team to clinch a spot in the knockout round and sitting atop their group; Panama is bottom of their group, but it's all very close. A win over 1st place Ghana will pretty much assure them of advancing to knockout phase...easier said than done; Mexico is bottom of their group (in fairness, it's actually a 4 way tie on points, Mexico -1 gd has them in last, while 1st place Serbial is only +1 in gd..so much to play for all the teams in this group in their final group matches); Honduras completely spit the bit v. Fiji last night, getting smoked and putting them in pretty much a must win v. Germany to advance to knockout rond;
Group D (Mexico) is the most evenly matcehd of the groups. All 4 teams are tied w/ 3 points, so HUGE matches on Saturday of Mexico v Serbia and Uruguay v Mali. All to play for.
In knockout round, the US will either play:
- if we finish 1st in group A (win or draw v Ukraine): 3rd place team out of Group C, D, or E which would be one of Senegal, Colombia, Serbia, Mali, Uruguay, Mexico (doubt they'd match us up with Mexico in first knockout round); Hungary or Nigeria.
- if we finish 2nd in group A (lose to Ukraine): the runner up of group C which is most likely Colombia or Portugal, and a longer shot of it being Senegal (if they smoke Qatar and Portugal beats Colombia).
Whoever it is, odds are the US faces it's toughest test of the Cup in the first knockout round, as our group was relatively weak.