Each competition day during the Gold Cup I will be providing a round-up of all that is noteworthy and interesting in our wacky little confederation championship.
Below the jump, day 3 (and rest day 4)
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The Results:
Panama 3-2 Guadeloupe
USA 2-0 Canada
By now the Canada – USA result has been beaten to death.
Panama went up 2-0 and looked to be cruising when the Islanders went down to 10 men. Either Guadeloupe is way better than we thought and woke up in the second half, or Panama isn’t all that good.
Time will tell.
With the results every team has played. So far groups B and C have the best third place finishers with Guatemala/Honduras and Guadeloupe currently filling those spots.
Performance of the day
Clint Dempsey – It’s been a while since Dempsey looked as dangerous as he did against Canada. I hope it wasn’t because of the opponent.
Thanks for the condescending attention! (Mainstream media article of the day)
I can’t believe Yahoo pays for this stuff.
What about the Canucks? (Canadian news of the day)
For all that can be said about Gerry Dobson there is little doubt that the man has watched more Canada games live than pretty much anyone else on earth.
So, when he asks WTF, take note
What’s on tap for today?
Costa Rica v El Salvador (7 p.m. EDT)
Mexico v Cuba (9 p.m. EDT)
If El Salvador doesn’t get a win you are likely looking at the first name team eliminated from the tournament. Having a -5 hung on you in the first game will do that. However, if they do pull off the win then group A starts to look more likely to grab the best third place slot – El Salvador would need only to beat Cuba and have Mexico beat Costa Rica to grab second and the Ticos are on a + 5 right now.
Cuba is screwed.