Croatia, Mexico, Norway Record Big Wins

Today, in World Cup qualifying a few teams picked up important victories. Croatia took down Belarus and our now in control of second place. Belarus are having one of their best ever campaigns, but their hopes of qualifying took a large hit. The Croats took down Belarus 3-1. Norway crushed Scotland 4-0 and have put themselves right in the hunt for second place. The game took a dramatic switch after Gary Caldwell was sent off. The goals started poring in and in fact, Norway should have had one more. The Norwegians had a goal not given, which was clearly over the line. France, Germany, and Slovenia also picked up victories as well.

The USA were looking for the first ever win in Mexico and got off to the perfect start. Charlie Davies scored after 9 minutes. The lead would not last long though, as Macias would score 10 minutes later after a wonderful long range strike. The US held on though and looked like they were going to take a point. However, with 9 minutes left Sabah picked up a lose ball in the box after a sliding challenge had knocked it to him. He took his time and roofed the ball beautifully into the net. Mexico took the 2-1 victory and greatly improved their chances of qualifying. Their are still two more games to come to night in CONCACAF.