USMNT players briefly held up a banner that read “QUALIFIED” but there’s just one problem...
. The U.S. leads fourth-place Costa Rica by three points and has a +10 edge in goal differential, meaning that even with a loss of five or fewer goals in their head-to-head matchup to close qualifying on Wednesday night, the U.S. is heading to Qatar in November.
If the U.S. manages to lose by six goals or more—a highly unlikely outcome; perhaps even less likely than, say, losing in Trinidad & Tobago while events in two other simultaneous matches conspire against the U.S.—then this moment from the postgame celebrations will go down as an all-time gaffe. “We know we’re not there yet, despite what that banner said,” manager Gregg Berhalter said in the opening remarks of his postgame press conference, addressing the mistake head-on.
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