Chili thrashed this Saturday to Panama 6-1 at the National Stadium of Santiago, in a match in which the debutante striker Nicolás Guerra He turned a triplet, and in which Argentine coach Ricardo Gareca evaluated variants for the restart in March of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
The Red win was completed with an autogol of defender Gabriel Brown and two others converted by Lucas Cepeda and Steffan Pino, while the discount of the Panamanians was specified by the attacker Cecilio Waterman. The Chilean team, made up of the local league players, was clearly superior to its rival since the beginning of the match.
Guerra turned the first goal just three minutes, opening the score with a balloon when impacting the ball the outer face of the right foot and dislodging the Panamanian goalkeeper Eddie Roberts. The Gareca team had a short time to dominate an opponent who was somewhat passive and surprised at the start of the duel.
Esteban Pávez (Chile) faces the Panamanian Waterman
The second annotation came two minutes later with an autogol of defender Gabriel Brown, who pushed a ball that was also debutant Ariel Uribe. The Red saw the first auction of the Panamanians at 22 minutes, and it was from the attacker Giovany Herbert, but his shot was diverted from the right post of the goal Brayan Cortés.
Guerra put 3-0 with his second target of the match in the 25th minute, after being hand in hand in the channel area in a fast attack that began from the Chilean background and that left the orman Davis impotent impotent. The discount came with a penalty, which the side Fabián Hormazábal committed on Janpol Morales about the half hour of the game, and converted by the attacker Cecilio Waterman with a definition of the right post of Cortés.
Before the end of the first half, Guerra completed his premiere feast with the triplet that completed at minute 42, pushing at the bottom of the Panamanian arch a center that leaked Hormazábal. Starting the second half, Panama tried to shrink the distance on the scoreboard with Rafael Mosquera, but his shot in front of the red arch flew over the crossbar.
Chilean Kaiser Lenis disputes a ball with Daniel González
The Spanish coach of Danish origin Thomas Christiansen took the game to give minutes to several youth players of the Central American country, which is classified to the U-20 World Cup that will be held in the southern country at the end of this year.
Chile maintained control of the game, beyond the multiple changes modified the dynamics of the match, which also allowed the scoundrels to have more options to approach the rival area with deviated shots. It was the time for the return of midfielder Marcelo Díaz, a member of the ‘Buicampeone Golden Generation’ of America in 2015 and 2016, which was just over seven years old without dressing the red.
The attacker Lucas Cepeda marked the fifth, in the 53rd minute, pushing on the mouth of the arch a ball that walked through several Chilean players inside the Panamanian area, before a goalkeeper Roberts out of disolved. The win closed another debutant, striker Steffan Pino with a header in the 82nd minute, after a play between Lucas Assadi and Uribe.
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Chile will play again for the qualifiers as a visitor against Paraguay on March 20, and from local to Ecuador on the 25 Seventh place that gives the possibility of repechage.
The Central Americans, meanwhile, will play the final phase of the Concacaf 2025 Nations League, in which they will face the United States next month.
