El Salvador lost 3-2 against Paraguay in the last minutes for the Women’s Gold Cup – – 2024-03-02 14:24:42

Paraguay defeated El Salvador 3-2 this Wednesday, February 28, on date 3 of the 2024 Women’s Gold Cup at the Shell Energy Stadium in Houston and said goodbye to the competition.

The match began with good wind for the South Americans, thanks to Jessica Martínez’s penalty goal (17′). La Selecta continued searching for the goal with persistence and found it in the 69th minute, with a rebound taken advantage of by Samantha Fisher after a missed penalty, and in the 83rd minute, with a right foot from Danielle Fuentes. But Martínez herself gave the Albirroja the victory with two more goals (87′ and 90+1′). In this way, the Central Americans were eliminated without winning the tournament.

The match was closely contested in the first minutes to the point that due to the excessive force with which some players scored, before 15 minutes there were two Salvadoran teams in yellow and one Paraguayan team.

In a cross from the right, a ball touched the hand of a Salvadoran defender, the play was not clear until the referee was called from the VAR booth to review the play on the small screen.

After several minutes of deliberating with that action, the foul was called from “the 11 steps”, which Jessica Martínez executed (17′). Idalia Serrano, the Azul goalkeeper, was close to blocking the shot, but all she had to do was go and bring the ball to the back of the net.

In the second half, the Blue Women finally found the goal they had been looking for so much. Samantha Fisher, of the Chicago Red Stars, took a penalty called for a foul on Samaria. She first blocked the rival goalkeeper, but in the counterattack she sent her to save (69 ‘).

The celebration was short-lived, we had to go look for more goals, and the second was found through Danielle Fuentes, who cut inside the area and nailed it at the first post to make it 2-1.

El Salvador was achieving victory in 83 minutes, but just four minutes later, again from a penalty, Jessica Martínez made it 2-2.

When the first minute of added time was being played (90+1′), Martínez placed the third for the final 3-2 in favor of the South Americans.