CONCACAF Qualifying: what results does Costa Rica need to qualify directly for the Qatar 2022 World Cup?

Costa Rica beat El Salvador as a visiting condition this past Sunday for date 13 of the Concacaf Qualifiers and secured fourth place in the Positions table. Quota that allows him, for now, to reach a playoff without major complications; however, heto direct classification it is a high probability if certain outcomes occur.

The Costa Rican national team it is located in the fourth box with 22 points, above Panama, which has 18. The first positions are occupied by Canada, the United States and Mexico, respectively. Find out what needs to happen so you can sign up for Qatar 2022 without playing a playoff.

Costa Rica will receive the United States at home for the last date of Concacaf. The first thing that should happen is that they win against the US team and that Mexico also falls against El Salvador.

In the first scenario, they must win by a difference of six goals that could displace those led by Gregg Berhalter to a lower position. Here the Ticos would enter second place in the table by adding 25 units and having a goal difference of nine.

The second is that Mexico does not score against its rival and that, finally, the goal difference is used, where the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica would add 25 units.

Costa Rica’s last rival in the Concacaf Qualifiers will be the United States.

This is the fixture of the last date of the Concacaf Qualifiers:

This is the standings for the Concacaf Qualifiers in the absence of the last date:

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