I like the fella who say we sure to win if we play slovenia
Is amazng how men does get tisik over these rankings, time after time.
Its pretty simple. Since the end of September, St. Vincent has had 6 games that have been treated
statistically like World Cup qualifiers (Jamaica, Haiti, St. Lucia) and now Bermuda, Barbados, Bahamas.
Teams like Haiti, by the end of november would have had
8 "world cup qualifiers" in 2 months (Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent), (Cuba, Martinique, Surinam) and (Bermuda, Antigua/Dominican Republic/Guadeloupe/Guyana)
What ii means is that they could have theoretically won their first 3 matches, got a win and a draw in the second round, still end up third and then win the last 2 matches. thats 19 points multiplied by a world cup qualifier coefficient (2.5)
All of this comes about because FIFA made no distinction between the different phases of qualification for the Gold Cup. The caribbean cup itself will be treated as a qualification for the gold cup, but also the qualifiers for the caribbean cup. In other words, Haiti can play 8 qualifying matches for the cc, and then play 5 matches in the caribbean cup itself if they get to the final. If they get to the gold cup itself, they'll have at least 2 matches there with a coefficient of 3 (only the WC itself is worth more -coefficient of 4)
compare this to Trinidad who has yet to play a competetive match before the beginning of the cc. We have had 4 friendlies (coefficient 1) and of these we have only 6 points (2 wins, as losses count for nothing). Add to this that our entire World Cup adventure since we qualified resumes to 1*4 (Sweden) and (3*1) Iceland + 1*1 (Peru). In the last year we have collected 14 points against relatively low ranked opposition (sweden excepted), divided by an incredible number of games (iceland, slovenia, peru, czech, sweden, england, paraguay, japan, st vincent, panama, austria)
I repeat the best is yet to come undone. Wim and the TTFF had better make sure they manners the digicell cup, foreign based or not.