The Group Stage of the 2018 CONCACAF Men’s U-20 Championship is over, taking with it 28 of the 34 teams that started the tournament.
Yes, there were a lot of mismatches. Yes, there wasn’t much to challenge pre-tournament expectations: the winner of each group was the top seeded team in every case. But the decision to open up the regional men’s U-20 championship to every member association in the region able to send a team to play gave us a lot games and goals to watch, and turned the competition into a true showcase of the current crop of CONCACAF U-20 talent.