[WORLD CUP 2014 QUALIFYING COUNTDOWN] For the United States and Mexico, perennial favorites to qualify for the World Cup, the only question on Day 1 of thesemifinal round of Concacaf qualifying is how many goals will they win by when they host minnows Antigua & Barbuda and Guyana from the Caribbean zone, respectively. But Friday’s other four games– Jamaica-Guatemala, Costa Rica-El Salvador, Cuba-Canada and Honduras-Panama — are all intriguing matchups that will give an early indication of how things stack up in the three groups from whichthe top two move on to next year’s Hexagonal.
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