Overview
- Panama, level with Surinam on six points in Group A, visits Guatemala in a match players have labeled decisive, while Guatemala can seize control by winning out at home.
- Honduras leads Group C with eight points and can clinch if it beats Nicaragua and Costa Rica fails to win at Haiti, where the match is being staged in Curaçao.
- Costa Rica sits second in Group C on six points after a 4-1 win over Nicaragua and now faces a direct rival in Haiti, which remains in contention with five points.
- In Group B, Jamaica tops the table with nine points ahead of Curacao on eight, with the Reggae Boyz away to Trinidad and Tobago and Curacao visiting winless Bermuda.
- El Salvador is last in Group A with three points and has only a narrow path to advance, while Nicaragua is effectively out in Group C; hosts Mexico, the United States and Canada are already qualified.