When they face off Wednesday in the final of the Concacaf Women's Championship, the United States and Canada should get something they haven't gotten all tournament - a competitive game.
The region's powers breezed through the group stage and easily dispatched with their semifinal opponents. Those wins in the last four locked up qualification for the 2019 World Cup in France and booked the teams a place in the final.
Now there's some spice added to what so far has been a relatively flavorless tournament (though Panama and Jamaica getting into the semifinals were mild surprises, and the winner of Wednesday's third-place game will earn its first-ever World Cup bid).