Olympic Qualifying U24 Tournament - Guadalajara Mexico - March 18 to 30 2021

[Club Linesman]

Wait they now have11. New guess is 2-2!  Haiti is inspired and Honduras shits the bed as the game got off to such a farcical start.

[Club Linesman]

I’ll go back to 5-1.😜

[Gian-Luca]

The "real" keeper looks worse than the fake one. 3-0 Honduras now

[narduch]

I dont understand what happened to Haiti. They appeared to be prepping for this tournament for weeks. Why would they travel so late to Mexico?

[JasonDias]

37 minutes ago, narduch said:

I dont understand what happened to Haiti. They appeared to be prepping for this tournament for weeks. Why would they travel so late to Mexico?

No idea, but I have never been happier to see a 3-0 score going into the last 10 mins. 

To think that this was looking like a 10-0 game right before kickoff.

[Alex]

Haiti just lost their best defender for when we play them

[red card]

Good video analysis of the fundamentals of Concacaf shithousery that should be part of any orientation meeting for selected Canadian players.

 

[shamrock]

21 hours ago, narduch said:

Abzi and Farsi have been added to the roster.

Replacing Twardek and Meilleur-Guiģere for 'medical' reasons.

More in the article here

 

Soccerway has Thomas Meilleur-Giguere on the bench and no Abzi. I checked with the Concacaf site and they have the same. So what happened? Last-ditch switch for an injury (assuming TMG will recover faster)?

[Shortdutchcanuck]

3 minutes ago, shamrock said:

Soccerway has Thomas Meilleur-Giguere on the bench and no Abzi. I checked with the Concacaf site and they have the same. So what happened? Last-ditch switch for an injury (assuming TMG will recover faster)?

Torn collateral ligament Stage 2 out 5 to 6 weeks.  

[shamrock]

1 minute ago, Shortdutchcanuck said:

Torn collateral ligament Stage 2 out 5 to 6 weeks.  

So why no Abzi on the bench then? Or does Concacaf have it wrong and it was Abzi all along?

[narduch]

Most likely a Concacaf fuck up.

My guess is Abzi has his number

Edited March 20, 2021 by narduch

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

After yesterday's fiasco, the FHF decided to livestream the COVID tests of the delegation.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1171753913244560

It was followed by an interview with the coach.

The coach is looking a two different players to replace the suspended Djimy-Alexis.

When it comes to his analysis of Canada, he really rates four of our players. Cornelius, 2 of our wingers (unamed) and one of our midfielders (unamed). 

[dyslexic nam]

42 minutes ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

After yesterday's fiasco, the FHF decided to livestream the COVID tests of the delegation.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1171753913244560

It was followed by an interview with the coach.

The coach is looking a two different players to replace the suspended Djimy-Alexis.

When it comes to his analysis of Canada, he really rates four of our players. Cornelius, 2 of our wingers (unamed) and one of our midfielders (unamed). 

Gonna go out on a limb and say that Buchanan is one of the wingers.  

[narduch]

Today's matches. Times in ET.

[Shortdutchcanuck]

 

Another #CanMNT Flickr photo album with 78 photos so far

[badname22]

3 hours ago, narduch said:

Today's matches. Times in ET.

CR vs Mex. If the US underperform in against DR they could be in trouble.

[toontownman]

Preview of the tournament from Lee Kormish if anyone didn't see it and is interested.

Edited March 21, 2021 by toontownman

[narduch]

 

[Gian-Luca]

DR noticeably more aggressive/less bunkering against the US

[narduch]

DR don't look too bad. Just have no ideas in the final 1/3rd.

[Ansem]

If we can top the group, we can take the US in the semis

[narduch]

1 minute ago, Ansem said:

If we can top the group, we can take the US in the semis

The US are not guaranteed to advance 

[narduch]

0-0 at the half.

[SpursFlu]

If soccer nations were stocks.. the 2 best buys in Concacaf are Canada and DR. Just from a pure population standpoint DR dwarfs basically every other Caribbean nation. They seem decently organized and are definitely up for it from a physical standpoint. Keeper looks really good and thev 17 yr who signed for Inter Miami is really tricky 

Edited March 21, 2021 by SpursFlu

[Ansem]

3 minutes ago, SpursFlu said:

If soccer nations were stocks.. the 2 best buys in Concacaf are Canada and DR. Just from a pure population standpoint DR dwarfs basically every other Caribbean nation. They seem decently organized and are definitely up for it from a physical standpoint. Keeper looks really good and thev 17 yr who signed for Inter Miami is really tricky 

I always said that the DR have the resources to be a Caribbean giant. Their attention is growing towards football instead of solely focused on baseball.

They have a league, resources to upgrade significantly. Good to see!

They are executing their plan perfectly, and the US having no creativity on the ball doesn't help their case.

The question is, can they keep this up another half and if they have the depth to not drop in quality...

Fun game to watch.