Carlos Pineda scored the decisive penalty shot as Honduras beat Panama in a shootout after the groups performed to a 1-1 draw within the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals on Saturday evening.
Honduras superior to the semifinals on Wednesday in Santa Clara, California, the place it can face the winner of Saudi Arabia and Mexico. It’s the primary time Honduras has made the Gold Cup semis since 2013.
Honduras struggled to generate many scoring alternatives till coming alive late within the second half. Los Catrachos evened the scored within the 82nd minute when Anthony Lozano deflected a shot from Carlos Pineda into the nook of the web following a nook kick.
Each groups made 4 out of 5 pictures within the preliminary spherical of kicks. Honduras had an opportunity to win with its fifth try, however Orlando Mosquera made a diving cease on Lozano’s shot.
Panama’s Eduardo Guerrero sailed the following penalty kick over the web, giving Honduras one other probability to win. This time, Pineda took benefit, burying his shot into the underside left nook to offer Honduras the 5-4 shootout win.
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Panama dominated possession within the first half, however could not break by way of till Cristian Martinez was fouled by Honduras’ Edwin Rodriguez within the forty fourth minute simply contained in the penalty space. Ismael Diaz took the shot and calmly scored his Gold Cup-leading sixth objective, discovering the underside left nook of the web to offer Panama a 1-0 lead.
Panama scored 10 objectives within the three video games in the course of the group stage, together with eight within the first half. Together with his sixth objective, Díaz handed Gabriel Torres because the Panamanian participant with essentially the most objectives in a single Gold Cup.
Panama is a three-time Gold Cup runner-up, dropping twice within the championship sport to the U.S. (2005, 2013) and as soon as to Mexico in 2023. Honduras was runner-up within the inaugural event in 1991, dropping to the U.S.
It was the primary knockout spherical assembly between the 2 nations within the Gold Cup.
Panama superior to Saturday’s quarterfinals after profitable Group C, beating Guatemala, Jamaica and Guadeloupe. Honduras was the runner-up in Group B, beating Curacao and El Salvador following a 6-0 loss to Canada.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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