The Canadian men’s national team downed the United States 2-0 in 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying Sunday in front of 12,000 fans in Hamilton, Ont. – their fifth win a row in qualifying and another emotional marker in the team’s meteoric rise in world football.
Midfielder Jonathan Osorio (0:00), goalkeeper Milan Borjan (4:57), and head coach John Herdman (11:10) speak to media after the historic win.
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Beautiful passing on the first goal and some amazing goalkeeping from Borjan. Super excited to see what this team can do in the future!
Go Canada! 2-0 El Salvador
"John Herdman, that's it."
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"Thanks"
"You're welcome."
lol
New CANADA…love it
Our Foot Ball Teams, Men's and Women's surprised me with Golden Results. Keep up folks!
Director and Coach Herdman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa8u_IkoIic&t=431s
Love this coach’s mentality ??????
I’ve never heard a single sentence from John Herdman that wasn’t inspiring in some way. This is the best coach I’ve seen in ANY sport in all my years of watching!
Lightning in a bottle for Canada as a whole. I pray CPL will capitalize and grow. So much potential in this league.
if arfield changes his mind it would be a great addition
Both feet on the ground. Straight ahead.
GO CANADA!
Canada – outstanding performance! Milan’s saves – world class. It’s strange in a way because he looks heavy, overweight but his reaction saves are spectacular!
Respect from Europe!
"Two words, John Herdman."
If only we could afford a Canadian shirt John lol? come on soccer Canada get some freaking affordable kit !.
GO CANADA GO! Great job bros ?
I love "the job's not done!!"
A great win! off to the world cup. John Herdman will have to improve our midfield that was terrible today. We won becuase we were more clinical . Jonathan Osario and Kaye are nice lads, but out of their depth. We are 1 injury away to Estaquio to disaster.
Yes yes “We knooooooooooo”
We are proud of you guys ! Best canadian team ever !
Borjan talks not just like a leader should but more of a down to earth real human being, with real life points!
"react to US World Cup Qualifying victory"? Title makes it look like the U.S. won.
Milan is so classy. He is a proud Canadian and it is a pleasure to watch him play and listen to him speak.He is the leader of this team and I am happy for him. Keep in mind that Milan was part of the dark days, including the 8-1 pounding in Honduras 10 years ago so it is awesome to see him here during the best time in Canadian Mens Soccer history. Crazy saves the past two games
Wow with three key players missing I wasn't really expecting this result. But Fantastic! I loved that 2nd goal. SWEET.
For those who may not want to work all the math out, here's where Canada now stands:
– I now put Canada at about 96% probability of qualifying for Qatar 2022
– It is nearly impossible for Canada to 100% secure qualification after Wednesday's matches, no matter what happens. The exception is if the USA and Panama lose and Costa Rica does not win. But if Canada wins, and the USA and Mexico both lose, they will be a hair's width away.
– The most statistically likely table count at the end now is: CAN 28, MEX 25, USA 24, PAN 23, CRI 18, ELS 13, JAM 12, HON 5. That means that both the USA and Mexico are very vulnerable to finding themselves in 4th position and needing to head to the play off.
Also, neither El Salvador nor Jamaica are theoretically eliminated yet! They are alive by almost impossible scenarios. After Wednesday they will both likely be 100% out.
And for those who are wondering just how many points Canada needs before you can sleep without anxiety:
1 Canada could not gain another point and still qualify in 2nd or 3rd place
2 Canada could theoretically get to 24 pts and still end up in 5th position
3 Canada could theoretically get to 25 pts and still end up in 4th position
4 Canada could theoretically get to 26 pts and still end up in 4th position, if PAN could also reach 26 and pass Canada in GD
5 Canada is guaranteed to qualify if they can reach 27 points
6 Canada could theoretically reach 28 pts and still finish 3rd, if US and MEX both reach 28 pts and both attain better GDs
7 Canada could reach 29 pts and still finish 2nd behind one of the US, MEX or PAN
8 Canada could reach 30 pts and still finish 2nd to either the US or MEX if GD is worse
9 Canada is guaranteed to finish 1st if they reach 31 pts
1 thru 4 are very very low probabilities, but they do exist.
Sorry for those who don't care for numbers, but I can't help but analyze. Canada is almost there but not quite! So no celebrations yet… Will update after Wednesday.
12,000 fans sounded like 30,000 fans, well done Hamilton.
So happy…like I'm on cloud nine right now, if we can beat El Salvador on Wednesday then book our plane tickets, we are going to Qatar!!! It is as good as done!!!