Four years ago, the US national team drove a dagger into Panama's hopes of qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Now, Los Canaleros will be looking for payback — or at least to make the Yanks' precarious position even more so.
Panama sit third and the US are just one point back going into Friday's penultimate CONCACAF qualifier, with Bruce Arena's side holding an eight-goal edge over Honduras (also on nine points) in the tiebreaker. Still, the US would love to leapfrog the visitors into third place, hang on to that final automatic berth in their Hex finale at Trinidad and Tobago on Oct.