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MIAMI \u2013<\/strong> The Final Round of the\u00a0Concacaf Qualifiers to the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/span><\/a> continues with\u00a0Costa Rica<\/strong>\u00a0hosting\u00a0Honduras<\/strong> in Group C on Tuesday at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica.<\/p>\n The encounter presents a rematch of the October 9 tilt in which the Central American rivals played out a nil-nil draw in Honduras.<\/p>\n Costa Rica (1-3-1) looks to bounce back after falling 1-nil against Haiti. Los Ticos<\/em> sit third in the group with six points and can secure direct qualification with a win against Honduras, combined with a loss or draw for Haiti.<\/p>\n Honduras (2-2-1) visits Costa Rica after its 2-nil loss at Nicaragua. Despite the past result, Los Catrachos<\/em> remain first in Group A with eight points and a better goal difference than Haiti. Honduras will qualify directly if it wins and Haiti loses, draws or wins and finishes with a lower goal differential.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Haiti\u2019s 1-0 victory over Costa Rica brought them closer to the 2026 FIFA World Cup and marked their first-ever win against the Ticos in World Cup Qualifying, ending a 5-match winless streak (L-4, D-1). It was also the first time Haiti kept a clean sheet against Costa Rica in qualifying.<\/p>\n Costa Rica saw its run of 15 straight matches without defeat in World Cup Qualifying come to an end (11 wins, 4 draws).<\/p>\n Miguel Herrera became the first Mexican-born manager to lose to Haiti, ending a 7-match unbeaten run by Mexican coaches against the Haitians (W-4, D-3).<\/p>\n Nicaragua recorded its first-ever victory over Honduras in the Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers, ending an 18-match winless run against the Catrachos in all competitions (L-15, D-3). Nicaragua had not defeated Honduras since March 12, 1965, when it claimed a 2-0 win (goals by Pedro \u201cPeche\u201d Jir\u00f3n and Gerardo Barrios) in the Concacaf Nations Championship. The win also snapped Nicaragua\u2019s streak of five WCQ matches without a victory.<\/p>\n The loss ended Honduras\u2019s 8-match unbeaten run in World Cup Qualifying (W-6, D-2), as well as its streak of 6 straight clean sheets. It was Honduras\u2019s 51st loss in WCQ history: the 33rd away from home, the 18th against a Central American opponent, and the 51st overall.<\/p>\n For head coach Reinaldo Rueda, the defeat ended his personal unbeaten run of 9 matches in charge of Honduras (W-7, D-2).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n MIAMI \u2013 The Final Round of the\u00a0Concacaf Qualifiers to the 2026 FIFA World Cup continues with\u00a0Costa Rica\u00a0hosting\u00a0Honduras in Group C on Tuesday at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica. The encounter presents a rematch of the October 9 tilt in which the Central American rivals played out a nil-nil draw in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Costa-Rica-Honduras-meet-in-crucial-match-for-World-Cup.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Haiti 1\u20130 Costa Rica<\/h2>\n
Haiti breaks through against Costa Rica<\/h3>\n
Miguel Herrera becomes first Mexican manager to lose to Haiti<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Nicaragua 2\u20130 Honduras<\/h2>\n
Nicaragua defeats Honduras for the first time in WCQ<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
End of Honduras\u2019s unbeaten and shutout streaks<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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