They are assured a spot in Poland next year for their World Cup, following the latest shutout victory Friday evening, now assured a top 2 spot in Group G, needing only a tie or win to move on to the title game facing Honduras. Now in its 4th straight straight Cup, this includes all under HC Tab Ramos and 11 out of 12 overall. Mov 19 @ 8 p.m. ET will be the next mathc at IMG in FL, watch it live on UDN & the ConcacafGo app.
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- now undefeated in the last 11 Concacaf U-20 Championship games, since the opener in 2017, it is a new team mark for going undefeated, besting the 2005-'07 mark.
- HC Ramos is now 18-3-2 all time and 4 straight Cup trips.
- now ahead of Costa Rica in these games 5-3-4.
- Capt. Matt Real is back after 2 games off due to yellow cards.
- Ulysses Llanez had his team leading 8th goal as Alex Mendez & Ayo Akinola have half a dozen each.
- Llanez is now one shy of the USA top man Ricky Davis, his mark set in 1976.
- Paxton Pomykal & Justin Renicks were in their team leading 6th game of the tourney.
- Sergino Dest got the start just prior to the opening kick as Jaylin Lindsey suffered an injury.
- Dest & Sebastian Soto made their first games since coming on board at the Group Stage.
- Brady Scott achived his 3rd straight shutout and 4th for his side.