Mexico (practically) reaches 2006 fifa worldcup

with a 2-0 win againt costa rica, mexico reached 16 points and remainded as 1st place, on top of usa with 15 (which will play next), guatemala and costa rica with 7, trinidad and tobago with 4, and panama with only 2 points (they lost against guatemala in the minute '92).

in asia, japan got the first place of its group by defeating iran 2-1 (both teams allready qualified). uzbekistan defeated kwait and maintained their hopes for qualifing. baharain lost against north korea but anyway finished with more points. baharain and uzbekistan will match up to define the 5th place of asia that will play against the fourth place of concacaf (in this moment costa rica).

mathematically mexico needs 1 point in the next 4 games to avoid going against baharain or uzbekistan.