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Four Caribbean teams make early entry into Round 3 of 2018 FIFA WCQ
Four Caribbean teams are safely into the next round of the ‘Road to Russia’ 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers after playing their first and second leg games. The teams are Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Curacao and St Vincent and the Grenadines. UNCAF team Belize also made it into the next round.
Barbados stopped Aruba 2-0 away and 1-0 at home, Curacao drew with Cuba 0-0 at home and 1-1 away, St. Vincent and the Grenadines drew 2-2 at home and 4-4 away, while Antigua & Barbuda were defeated 3-1 by St Lucia at home and won 4-1 in the second leg.
Meanwhile, Bermuda and Guatemala played at the Bermuda National Stadium in Hamilton, Bermuda last night.
Today, the last four return leg games will be played when Grenada meet Puerto Rico at the Queens Park Stadium in Grenada; Suriname host Nicaragua at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Suriname; Canada encounter Dominica at the BMO Field in Canada, while St Kitts and Nevis travel to the Estadio Cuscatlan, in El Salvador, to face El Salvador.
These results will decide the other five teams that will qualify for the next round. Twenty teams started the contest for the ten available places in this round for qualification for the next round on June 7.
The group was made up of fifteen CFU teams, four UNCAF teams along with Canada from the North region. Each team faces its opponent twice in a home and away format.
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