MOSCOW, Mar 28 Team USA players prematurely celebrated reaching the finals of the championship World Cup 2022 after defeating the Panama team in the qualifying tournament of the North and Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF), reports the Daily Mail. The meeting in Orlando ended with a score of 5: 1 in favor of the home team, whose Chelsea player Christian Pulisic.According to the newspaper, after the match, the Americans unfurled a banner in front of the fans with the inscription «qualified», although rivals in the qualifying group still have a mathematical chance to get ahead of the US team. Later, the players admitted their mistake. Before the last round of qualifying competitions, the Americans scored 25 points and are in second place. The Mexicans have the same number of points, Canadians are in the lead in the group (28), in fourth place is the Costa Rica team (22). The first three teams will qualify directly for the World Cup, while the fourth will have to participate in the play-offs. The US team will fall to fourth place if they lose to Costa Rica on March 30 by six or more goals.
