Recently, the World Preliminary Round in North America was held in the 11th round, in which Honduras came to challenge the United States away. After 90 minutes of fighting, Honduras lost 3-0 and played an embarrassing performance of 11 consecutive rounds without a win. Currently, Honduras are at the bottom with three points, becoming the first North American team to miss the World Cup.
Honduras had already decided to be out before this match, and the rest of the game was only for honor. In the face of the more powerful United States, Honduras can be described as a heartless war.
Coupled with the cold weather in the United States and the physical temperature below 0 degrees, honduran players from the tropics are very uncomfortable, and some players have to wear beanie hats to play. What is even more exaggerated is that Honduran goalkeeper Luis López was frozen, physically out of temperature, and was urgently replaced after half-time, almost endangering his life.
The gap in strength, the perfunctory mentality combined with extreme weather led Honduras to play a disastrous game. The data shows that Honduras have less than 30% possession, 2-16 shots on goal, 0-8 on target and 1-8 in corners, and are crushed in almost all aspects.
Just seven minutes into the opening, McKenny broke the deadlock and Zimmerman added the icing on the cake. In the second half, Pulisic, who came off the bench, sealed the victory and Honduras lost 3-0. Honduras has not only been double-scored by the United States in two legs, but has never beaten the United States in the World Preliminary Round in the past nine years. In the last four visits, Honduras has been hung by the United States, conceding a total of 12 goals, and the average number of goals conceded per game has reached 3.
After this campaign, Honduras swallowed seven consecutive world cup defeats and won 11 consecutive rounds, with 3 draws and 8 losses to secure the bottom of the group, 4 points away from jamaica, which is second-to-last.
In fact, Honduras are not weak, they have participated in the World Cup three times, the most recent in 2014. In addition, Honduras currently ranks 76th in the world, only 2 places away from the national football team. If you talk about the value, the Honduran team is worth 16.73 million euros, which is almost the same as the national football team. We can say that Honduras is actually the same level of team as the national football team.
After the game, some fans asked, can the national football team play honduras? Some netizens commented on the following messages, saying that Vietnam can win the national football team, and if Honduras plays against the Chinese team, it will win at least 3 goals!