Rebecca Henriquez
@RebeHenriquez
One of the matches that caused the most sensations and excitement during the group stage of the W Gold Cup was against the Paraguayan team, a match on date 3 with which El Salvador said goodbye to the first edition of the competition after falling 3 -2. In addition, the eight teams for the quarterfinal phase were defined and Costa Rica and Argentina became the best third-place finishers.
El Salvador Paraguay
The team played like it had not been seen before in the entire regional competition and showed character and the desire to seek victory against the Paraguayan team, who in the first 18 minutes the team was in charge of seeking the advantage and did so at the end by the criminal route, after the blue and white was punished with the maximum penalty. Jessica Martínez took the punishment and scored 1-0 in Idalia Serrano’s goal.
The Paraguayans went into halftime with a partial advantage, but upon returning, at 68′, and also through penalties, the legionnaire Samantha Fisher marked the discount and made the Cuscatleco team’s team shout at the top of their lungs, it was the historic first goal for the El Salvador team in the Gold Cup.
After the tie, the sensations increased and at 83′, after Brenda Cerén’s driving, she assisted Danielle Fuentes diagonally and she maneuvered the ball and sent a direct shot into the net defended by Alicia Bobadilla, with the second goal the Salvadoran team took a breather and continued with the hope of reaching the quarterfinals, but Martínez in the 86th minute, again from the penalty spot, and made the score 2-2.
The wait for a tie disappeared at 90 + 1′, when Jessica Martínez scored the hat trick to lead the Guarani to the quarterfinals, while the Salvadorans returned home without zero points but with two goals in total.
For many, the match against the Paraguay team will be framed in a special chapter of the El Salvador women’s team, because it was one of the best matches that Eric Acuña’s team had in the first edition of the Gold Cup.
Quarterfinals defined
As first in group A and with 7 points in total, Mexico was the first classified in the group stage towards the quarterfinals and the United States entered as second in the group.
In group B, Brazil, at a perfect pace with three wins out of three, ranked first and Colombia with six points, two wins and one loss, was second.
Group C It was led from start to finish by Canada, with three possible victories and Paraguay below with six units with two victories and one loss.
In this section, it is noteworthy that Canada qualified as the highest scoring team in the phase, with 13 goals scored and an undefeated goal. Below is Mexico with 10 goals and also zero against.
The quarterfinals will be played this Saturday, March 2 and Sunday, March 3
Saturday: Canada vs Costa Rica 6:00 pm Brazil vs Argentina 9:15 pm
Sunday: Mexico vs Paraguay 4:00 pm and USA vs Colombia 7:15 pm
Costa Rica and Argentina go to the quarterfinals as the best third parties
The albiceleste achieved four points, a victory against the Dominican Republic, a draw against Mexico and a defeat against the United States, and the Costa Rican team with a victory against El Salvador and two defeats against Mexico and Paraguay.
La Selecta coach said that the team had overconfidence
Regarding the match against Paraguay, the strategist said: “We are under construction. I think the biggest lesson is to realize that we have to professionalize the team as much as possible, because today we have the game in hand and we let it go in 5 minutes, it is difficult that way to lose concentration so easily.”
The coach commented that the team arrived at the group stage very confident, but he separated the coaching staff from that state, because they thought that what they had achieved was going to be enough, but “we have learned to lose and realize that, when a match ends it ends and you have to play the next one much better,” he said.
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