BOY SCOUT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, CA -- Real Salt Lake tied the match about 21 seconds after kicking off following San Jose Earthquakes' first goal with a great chip over the GK to go into halftime tied at 1. But SJ came out scoring four times in the second half (matching Los Angeles Football Club's 4 2nd half goals vs LA Galaxy) in dominating a frustrated RSL team,
5-2. SJ had two PKs (both converted by Magnus Eriksson who also added an assist) and RSL had two players sent off. SJ's Wondo scored off the bench for a 3rd straight match.
In the heavyweight marque match, LAFC got its revenge on last year's playoff loss whipping Seattle Sounders FC,
4-1 behind Diego Rossi's two goals (7 for the tourney). LAFC was fast and had control but when Rossi couldn't be a couple of golden chances away, SEA came back to cut LAFC's lead in half at 2-1 with 15 minutes left. But LAFC scored twice in 7 minutes as Rossi managed to finally put an easy goal away. There were no cards in the match.
Concacaf announced a
new WC22 qualifying format with 30 teams competing for three spots to join the top 5 teams to form the 8-team Final Round (no longer the Hex anymore, I guess the Oct). The top five are 11-Mexico, 22-USA, 46-Costa Rica, 48-Jamaica, and 62-Honduras, based on the
July 16th FIFA rankings. The 30 teams in the First Round will be broken into six groups of five with 69-El Salvador, 73-Canada, 80-Curacao, 81-Panama, 86-Haiti, and 105-Trinidad and Tobago pre-seeded for each. The six group winners will pair off in the Second Round and the 3 winners will advance to the Final Round. With 8 teams competing for 3.5 spots, it will be harder for USA considering how poorly they do on the road.
In the pool,
Coronavirus_Sucks! was the only one to get SJ and also was
one of 13 to get LAFC. 2 got none. She moved to 5th (54 pts) in the standings but
Bobby Cee Racer still has a
six point lead with 62 pts. SJ's win eliminated
Hereforthecommentary (8th-Tied, 51) from the top 3 and yours truly,
Futbol Fabone Eleven (8th-T), from 1st. 13 had SEA going to the Quarters as the SEA-LAFC matchup was not expected so soon eliminating
Carseroni (14th, 46) from the top 3, leaving 12 still alive and 6 who can win the pool.
Bobby Cee Racer still has a
63.1% chance to win the pool and slightly lower than yesterday 88.1% chance to finish in the top 3.
BigRedMessy (7th, 52) moved up with a 14.1% chance to win 1st and 40.2% chance to finish in the top 3. He is the only entry left that still has his/her champion with LAFC. 3 had SEA winning it all including our leader. With most favorites out, the most any entry could get is just 89 points.
Super League, in last with 43 pts, had a 1 in 1024 chance to finish 3rd and now sits at 1 in 512.
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