The Cuban national football team defeated this Thursday as a visitor to its similar from Antigua and Barbuda, with a score of 2 × 0, and went on to lead group A of the second level in the League of Nations of the Confederation of North America, Central America and the Caribbean of Soccer (Concacaf) .
Those led by Pablo Elier Sánchez showed an associative game superior to the rival, who did not have many options to present themselves to the Cubans, according to the review published on the website Hit.
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The first goal of the Cuban team came in the 16th minute of the match with an effective header from striker Luis Javier Paradela, while seven minutes from the final whistle the scoreboard took definitive figures with the target signed by his attacking partner, Onel Hernandezwho plays for Birmingham in the second division of English football.
“The match was very good. We did a very good job on the lines and we deserved to win. We played the ball well and the most important thing is that we were able to win”, said after the game the captain of the Cuban team, Aricheell Hernández, quoted by Hit.
With this outcome, the Cuban team added its second victory at this level of the tournament, and like the representative of Guadeloupe and its victimizer yesterday, it has six units, but it ranks first in the key thanks to its best goal. average.
The so-called Caribbean Lions debuted in this edition of the regional event with a 1×2 defeat in their visit to Guadeloupe, but they reacted by beating the Barbados team 3×0 on the synthetic field of the Antonio Maceo stadium, playing as locals in Santiago de Cuba.
In that same scenario, the Cuban cast will be presented again this Sunday, to face Antigua and Barbuda again, in search of a success that consolidates them at the top of the classification in their key.
With dates still to be defined, although already in 2023, Cuba would have its second duels with Barbados and Guadeloupe, in that order, to define the winner of the group, whose greatest prize would be promotion to the highest level of the League of Nations and the direct qualification to the Concacaf Gold Cup.
