The United States National Team advanced to the final of the Gold Cup 2025 after a close victory over Guatemala, a 2-1 achieved with a double scorer of midfielder Diego Luna, born in California of Mexican inheritance.
In this way, the “Team USA” will face the Mexico National Team (eliminated Honduras 1-0) in the match for the Concacaf title. This great regional classic will be on Sunday, July 6, at 7 pm et (6 pm local time) at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
It is announced that there are almost 60,000 tickets already distributed for the final of the Golden Tournament. And there are still a limited number of tickets to buy on the official website Goldcup.org .
Fans who can see the television coverage live by Fox (USA. – Univisión and Tudn (USA – Spanish), Televisa (Mexico) and ESPN and Disney+ (Caribbean, Central America and South America) are remembered.
“Moon Boy”
Guatemala’s dream of returning to the final of the Gold Cup, as in the 1996, ended in nightmare because of the 21-year-old creative flyer Diego Luna, who punished the Central American team with two goals (2-1) and sealed the passage of the United States to the game for the title.
With the left leg, the 10 American put forward the team of “The bars and the stars” at 4 minutes in complicity with the goalkeeper “Chapín” Kenderson Navarro, who bounced a remote auction.
“Moon Boy” Luna with the right enlarged the abyss in the 15th minute with a shot from the border of the large area. A shoe that sent the ball very close by the first stick of the visiting goalkeeper.
So far the party of the Guatemalan fans that filled the stands of the Energizer Park stadium in the city of San Luis (Misuri), in which the US seemed to be local.
The pupils of Maurico Pochettino took their foot from the accelerator and dedicated themselves to dosing forces in an environment of 32 degrees Celsius and play with the need of the rival, who did not show shows of rebellion in the first half.
On the other hand, in the 44th minute Navarro goalkeeper amended his failure in the first goal by neutralizing a ball with a flight to the bottom of the network driven by the Sebastian Berhalter brand steering wheel.
Pride “Chapín”
In the second half, Mexican coach Luis Fernando Tena decided to burn the ships with the remodeling of his core line in Guatemala with the entry of Jonathan Franco, Oscar Castellanos and Olger Escobar, all in the 65th minute.
Five minutes later it was the turn of the striker couple formed by Rubio Rubín and Pedro Altán, who gave their positions to Darwin Lom and Archimedes Ordóñez.
The Tena Revolution since the first wave of changes gave revenues 15 minutes later thanks to the appearance of Olger Escobar, an end born 18 years ago in Boston (USA) of Guatemalan parents and that stands out in the ranks of the Montreal of the MLS.
With the narrow advantage they returned the ghosts to the ranks of the United States, whose players had to be used thoroughly to resist the siege of the rival of the blue strip.
The match ended with a messy and constant onslaught on the goal of the American Mathe Freese (of the New York City FC), who at the edge of the 90 minutes flew to the root of his vertical right to clear the ball thrown by the left -handed side José Morales. Ufff … The USMN goalkeeper saved his team.
The Guatemalan party came up again in the stands and the “Chapín” pride arose but there was not much time. Guatemala’s powerful reaction was late, struggled to avoid defeat and was cornering the US that ended up asking for time, although with the classification in the hand.
Thus, American Selection, led by Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino, will have in front of the final of July 6 in Houston, the Mexican team, winner of the other semifinal match against Honduras with a narrow 1-0 defined with goal by Raúl Jimenez.
It should be noted that the “Team USA” seeks to reconquer this the title of the Gold Cup that raised for the last time in 2021. In front of his “hated” Mexican rival is the current champion of the contest.
(With EFE report)
Thus they aligned
– United States (2): Matt Freese; Alex Freeman, Chris Richards, Tim Ream, Maximilian Arfsten (m.85, Walker Zimmerman); Luca de la Torre (m.58, Brenden Aaronson), Tyler Adams (m.77, Jack McGlynn); Sebastian Berhalter, Mark Tillman, Diego Luna (m.77, John Tolkin); and Patrick Agyemang (m.85, Damion Downs).
– DT: Mauricio Pochettino (Argentine).
– Guatemala (1): Kenderson Navarro; Aaron Herrera, José Carlos Pinto, Nicolás Samayoa, José Morales; Oscar Santis, Stheven Robles (m.65, Jonathan Franco), José Rosales (m.65, Oscar Castellanos) and Rudy Muñoz (m.65, Olger Escobar); Rubín Rubín (m.70, Darwin Lom) and Pedro Altán (m.70, Archimedes Ordóñez).
– DT: Luis Fernando Tena (Mexican).
– Goals: 1-0, m.4: Diego Luna. 2-0, m.15: Diego Luna. 2-1, m.80: Olger Escobar.
– Referee: Jamaiquino Oshane Anthony Nation warned Richards, Robles, Luna, De la Torre, Freese and Santis.
– Incidents: The quarterfinal match of the Gold Cup played at the Energizer Stadium of the city of San Luis (Missuri).
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