The selection of Canadawith goals from Jonathan David and Alfonso Davieswas imposed this Thursday in Las Vegas at the Panama 0-2 in the semifinals of the Concacaf Nations League and the title will be played on Sunday against the United States.
Canada will thus play its first final of a CONCACAF tournament since it was proclaimed champion of the Gold Cup in 2000.
Panama, runner-up in the Gold Cup in 2005 and 2013, will only be eligible to be third in the League of Nations in a consolation match that will also take place on Sunday at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Canada
20
Panama
Panama: Orlando Mosquera; Michael Amir Murillo (Éric Davis, m.46), Harold Cummings (Jovani Welch, m.82), Fidel Escobar, Andrés Andrade, César Blackman; Édgar Yoel Bárcenas (Christian Martínez, m.74), Aníbal Godoy, Adalberto Carrasquilla (César Yanis, m.86), Ismael Díaz; Cecilio Waterman (Azarías Londoño, m.74).
Selector: Thomas Christiansen.
Canada: Milan Borjan; Alistair Johnston (Scott Kennedy, m.69), Kamal Miller, Steven Vitória; Tajon Buchanan (Jonathan Osorio, m.62), Stephen Eustáquio, Ismael Koné (Atiba Hutchinson, m.75), Richie Laryea, Sam Adekugbe (Alphonso Davies, m.62); Jonathan David, Cyle Larin (Junior Hoilett, m.75).
Selector: John Herdmann.
Goals: 0-1, m.25: Jonathan David. 0-2, m.69: Alphonso Davies.
Referee: Costa Rican Juan Gabriel Calderón admonished Blackman, Carrasquilla and Godoy from Panama. He expelled the Panamanian Davis for a direct red.
Incidents: Concacaf Champions League semifinal match played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
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The Canadian team, with remarkable marksmanship this Thursday (two goals from three shots on goal) and which aspires to discuss the traditional regional superiority of Mexico and the United States, did not have its great star, Alphonso Davies, who arrived with discomfort from the start. to the match.
The Bayern Munich player entered the pitch in the second half and was in charge of making it 0-2 with a great goal.
Canada Effectiveness
With little influx of public in a match that began at 4:00 p.m., Panama jumped into the stadium of the city of the game with an offensive approach, the game became open and in the first quarter of an hour both teams visited the goals.
However, Canada made their aim count by scoring on their first danger action.
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Kamal Miller, from the left wing, served a very good pass to the back of the Panamanian defense of five for David, who, in minute 25, defined perfectly under the legs of an Orlando Mosquera who could not do anything.
Far from collapsing, Thomas Christiansen’s men reacted admirably to that Canadian goal.
Thus, Panama chained three times in five minutes with a deflected header from Édgar Yoel Bárcenas, a strong shot from the edge of Ismael Díaz and, above all, a direct free kick missile from Fidel Escobar that put the veteran Canadian goalkeeper Milan in a lot of trouble. Borjan.
Despite the fact that little by little they found a way to do damage in attack, Panama suffered in the first half in defense with a line of five that was too static and that was vulnerable to the constant diagonals and long passes into the gap from Canada.
Already at the restart, the Canal team tried to unclog an increasingly stuck game and came close to drawing a good shot from the heart of Díaz’s area after a twisted play.
The reply came with a header from Cyle Larin, after a great cross from the right wing by Tajon Buchanan, which Mosquera saved on the line when Canada was already claiming a goal.
Davies’ entry with half an hour to go energized a Canadian team that was at times too conservative.
So much so that, practically in his first intervention, the Bayern Munich player sent the ball into the net with a fabulous shot to the corner after the umpteenth pass behind the Panamanian defense, this time courtesy of David.
From then on at the end of the match, Davies, very incisive, was a headache on the left wing for Panama, who gave up and also finished off ten men for a direct red card to Éric Davis already in minute 89.
