Team Martinique debuted on the right foot and gave the first surprise Golden Cup, defeating El Salvador 1: 2, a team that looked like favorites to debut both squads in Group C of the tournament concacafe.
Although Martinique did not outperform El Salvador in the match, They knew how to take advantage of La Selecta’s two mistakes in the first 16 minutes of the game to score a 2-0 early score. who were able to maintain throughout almost the entire match, as the discount goal hit in stoppage time.
Patrick Berner opened the scoring after being alone with Salvadoran goalkeeper Thomas RomeroWHO five minutes later he was beaten again by Kevin Fortune.
Fortune closed the triangulation in the penalty area on the counterattack after a mistake on the way out of the Salvadoran midfield, who were nervous and could not find their way to the opponent’s goal.
After the second goal, the Selecta team took control of the ball, not letting go of their nervousness and risking being overwhelmed without compromising Caribbean advantage with their approaches. Thus ended the first half.
By the second half, the Salvadorans returned with the same dynamics and, despite the advantages that the game gave them, they could not even the score.
Jonathan Riviere saw a red card in the 48th minute, which allowed El Salvador to take control of the game and create a danger to the goal of Giannis Clementia, who was the hero of his team.
Salvadoran approaches were focused on mid to long range shots, so Pérez enlisted brothers Mayer Gil and Christian Gil to get closer to the Martinique area.
Jairo Henriquez had a discount in the 82nd minute in boots, but the Martinique goalkeeper saved the shot and drowned out more than one Salvadoran goal cry in the final minutes.
In the 93rd minute, Brian Tamakas set a 12-step discount to a penalty, which Clementia saved with her right foot, but it was not enough to avoid a goal.
With this result, combined with Panama’s victory over Costa Rica, Martinique finished second in sector C of the tournament, while El Salvador remained in third place with zero points and seriously undermined their ambition to advance to the next stage.
*According to information from Efe.
Source: La Opinion
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