Canada defeated 2-0 Trinidad and Tobago in the elimination match of the Concacaf and will be the rival of the Argentina in it opening match of the Copa América. The match will be played on June 20th at the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Cyle Larin y Jacob Shaffelburg They scored the goals for the red team, which was superior throughout the match and only found the advantage after an hour of play. The Trinidadians, ranked 96th in the FIFA ranking, were barely able to disturb their rival, who lost everything they played for in the last worlddisputed in Qatar in 2022but who found qualification for the continental tournament thanks to a interim coach (Mauro Biello) and a rejuvenated team.
Since he lost John Herdman in August, Canada was entrusted to Biello, who served as coach of the youth teams. Until this Saturday’s momentous clash, the coach had three games, with two losses and one victory. The fall in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Nations League contra Jamaica It resonated deeply with Canadian supporters, who felt that Biello was not the right man for the job. However, he remained in charge of the team with the game against Trinidad and Tobago on the horizon. It was all or nothing: one defeat and he would go home, because he would watch the Copa América on television. A victory would catapult him directly to Atlanta, home of the inaugural match of the continental tournament, against Argentina no less, the current world champion.
Canada’s 2-0 victory came due to their insistence. He hit the Trinidadian defense in every possible way, but with a perfectly studied script: his two ends are arrows that the entire band makes without tiring. On the right, Tajon Buchanana sprinter who will leave his current club in Belgium in June to be a teammate of Lautaro Martínez at Inter Milan. On the left, the most famous player on the team: Alphonso Davies. Play in Bayern Munichbut he wants it Real Madrid. For many, he is the best left back on the planet. In Canada, which adopts a 3-4-3 module, it stands out as extreme.
Davies is the captain without an armband, the man who usually leads all the attacks. He does not spend all the time on his wing, but sometimes he can go inside and look for a midfielder like Stephen Eustaquiothe player called to collect the testimony he left Atiba Hutchinson, the history of the team that left the national team after the event in Qatar. Eustaquio plays for Porto, Portugal, and It is characterized by its panorama, precise passing and clean obtaining of the ball.
Cyle Larin’s goal for Canada 1-0
A Davies and Eustaquio joins jonathan davida forward who can go to the wings with ease and who also has the talent to be the team’s distributor, like a typical number 10 or a false 9. Canada’s offensive reference is Cyle Larin, from Spanish Mallorca. Precisely the powerful forward was the responsible for opening the scoring in Frisco, near Dallas, where the match against the Trinidadians that gave the passport to the Copa América was played. He did it after a screening – the umpteenth – of Buchananand a short pass of Agricultural Power, his strike partner. A strong and cornered shot was enough for Larin to beat Denzil Smith, the Trinidadian goalkeeper who was, by far, the best on his team.
The 1-0 seemed to sentence history. Because no matter how much Trinidad and Tobago He moved forward on the field, he was always behind in the process. The individual superiority of the Canadians meant that the score was almost risk-free. The Canadian defense was confident every time it was demanded, although the two central midfielders allowed themselves to be beaten relatively easily. The Canadian team was prepared to dominate possession and not to dispute possession of the ball. Against Argentina, on June 20, the story will be very different: The red team will most likely dress as a counterattack, to take advantage of the speed of its wingers and the opportunism of its number 9. But that game is still missing.
Jacob Shaffelburg’s goal for the Canadians 2-0
Canada had this saturday ten footballers from the American Major League Soccer. And he played in the stadium where, precisely, the historical football museum of that country is located. Where there is, for example, the Hall of Fame who enthroned Franz Beckenbauer (played for the New York Cosmos in 1983). He was a footballer Nashville, which competes in the MLS, the one in charge of sealing the score. The name will sound like Lionel Messi: Jacob Shaffelburg. The thing is that the blond left winger scored twice against Inter Miami by Concachampions. And he repeated it in the Texas sun against the Trinidadians when the game entered injury time. He did it after a counterattack in which he was alone and, after receiving assistance from David, he scored high after a long control. Nothing to do for the rival goalkeeper and a defined match. Canada enjoyed a well-deserved qualification to the Copa América.
“The goal means a lot”, said Larin, the Canadian number 9, after the game. And he added: “I’m happy to have scored; It was a good game for the entire team. “We knew it would be difficult to hurt them.” From now until June, Canada will recover several injured and will be able to expand the team’s base to better face the Copa América. I needed to beat Trinidad and Tobago. For many, he was obliged to do it. He achieved it and it is most likely that he will arrive at the match with Argentina with his coach, now interim, already confirmed. In Texas, Mauro Biello did his homework. And he classified his own.