CONCACAF 2015 Gold Cup

citytillidie

Just when you thought it was save to go to bed early again with no football to watch North and Central America brings us their Gold Cup starting tomorrow night on BT Sports

Group A
USA
Panama
Haiti
Honduras

Group B
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Jamaica
Canada

Group C
Mexico
Guatemala
Trinidad and Tobago
Cuba

Top 2 from each group and 2 best 3rd place teams go into the Quarter Finals

Opening Games
July 7th
Group A
Panama V Haiti
USA V Honduras

July 8th
Group B
Costa Rica V Jamaica
El Salvador V Canada

July 9th
Group C
Trinidad and Tobago V Guatemala
Mexico V Cuba

citytillidie

Well this went down like a lead balloon.

Group stage is over and Quarter Final line up is

USA V Cuba
Haiti V Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago V Panama
Mexico V Costa Rica

USA and Mexico at either end of the draw i guess that should be the Final but Mexico played out a 4-4 draw last night with Trinidad, and the US have been poor

LuckyLloyd

citytillidie wrote: »

Well this went down like a lead balloon.

Group stage is over and Quarter Final line up is

USA V Cuba
Haiti V Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago V Panama
Mexico V Costa Rica

USA and Mexico at either end of the draw i guess that should be the Final but Mexico played out a 4-4 draw last night with Trinidad, and the US have been poor

The US got lucky to not have to play Costa Rica in the semis though I suppose?

ben.schlomo

Watched the first half of Cuba/Guat last night, and a cupla other games, pretty poor fare, a lot of sideways passing, serious lack of goalscoring threat from a lot of the teams.

citytillidie

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

The US got lucky to not have to play Costa Rica in the semis though I suppose?

Costa Rica have been bad 3 draws in the group stage, but then there has been lots of draws so far.

inforfun

Till 9.22 today this tournament got the attention is deserves

Really was annoyed missing the late games in the Copa America but i cant say i feel i have missed anything with not seeing a minute of this.

Knock out might be more interesting.
Have money on USA btw.

patmac

Well the Mexico vs Trin& Tobago had it all last night a 4-4 draw, but some dreadful scenes towards the end of the game.
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2015/7/15/8975729/mexico-trinidad-and-tobago-final-score-2015-gold-cup-resuilts

ben.schlomo

patmac wrote: »

Well the Mexico vs Trin& Tobago had it all last night a 4-4 draw, but some dreadful scenes towards the end of the game.
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2015/7/15/8975729/mexico-trinidad-and-tobago-final-score-2015-gold-cup-resuilts

Slight exaggeration there, a few bits of plastic bottles and cups is hardly dreadful. It was no Balkans war.

citytillidie

2 quarter finals down USA winning 6-0 and Jamaica winning 1-0 there was an ex LOI player playing for Haiti

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Ex LoI player in the Jamaican squad too, Ryan Thompson. No idea if he's got any game time though!

patmac

Jamaica 2-0 up on the U.S. In one semi-final. Mexico vs Panama in the second.

Pighead

baz2009 wrote: »

Ex LoI player in the Jamaican squad too, Ryan Thompson. No idea if he's got any game time though!

Their centre back Michael Hector was on loan to us a couple of seasons before Kenny came in (ie when we were rubbish)

The Backwards Man

Well done Reading FC Jamaica!

citytillidie

So with the U.S. out there will be a play off for them with the winner to see who goes to the Confederation Cup in 2017

Stargate

Ugly scenes as Mexico beat Panama in semi-finals.

Mexico came from behind courtesy of two penalties - late in normal time and extra time - to win 2-1 in Atlanta.

Ref gave a penalty in the 88 minute and all hell breaks out !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOkVgcGFdw

ben.schlomo

My God that has to be one of the worst decisions ive ever seen, your man fell over while facing away from the ball and barely touches it when landing, criminal. Panama should have just walked.

As for the USA, they resorted to lump ball for the last 20. They had been getting success up until that point, should have gotten an equalizer but missed lots of chances.

jester77

Something seriously stinks here. That is 2 ridiculous last minute penalty calls in consecutive games for Mexico. That can't be a coincidence.

inforfun

Yeah well... cant have a Panama - Jamaica final so Mexico needed and got a helping hand.