Two a thread. With goals of Argentine Rodrigo Gómez and Uruguayan Maicol Cabrera, the Honduran Motagua beat the Independent Panamanian in the second game of the Central American Cup 2025 of Concacaf.
The “Catracho” team, which in the first half had greater possession of the ball, 58 %, did not know how to take advantage and was surpassed by its rival “Canalero”, which had more opportunities to score.
The players Ángel Caicedo, Rafael Águila and Moisés Yau walked with a bad aim at the Motagua arch defended by the goalkeeper Marlon Licona.
In one of the few danger plays from Motagua, which runs the Argentine-Honduran coach Diego Vázquez, Carlos Mejía shot a free throwing one meter from the large area.
The Motagua evidenced the lack of coordination in its lines before a visit that did not take advantage of the six auctions he made in the first half, all deviated.
In the second episode, the Honduran club was more resolved to look for the result and in the 55th minute he put an advantage with goal of the “gaucho” Gómez, of penalty, in the face of a foul in the area against Mejía.
The Independent had not replaced the embedded goal, when two minutes later, at 57, the “Charrúa” Cabrera put the 2-0 board in favor of the Motagua, after receiving a pass from the left of Panamanian Jorge Serrano.
The visiting squad reacted and at 71 Ángel Valverde, who had entered in the 65th minute, scored the goal of the discount, taking advantage of a good qualification in the center of the local area.
The last minutes were of urgent for Motagua, before an independent, who was looking for at least to tie the game, without adjusting the seven minutes of replacement given by the referee, who took a clean game.
It should be noted that in the first match of the Central American Cup 2025 of the Concacaf, the “Eagles” of the Motagua thrashed 1-4 to the Greens, by Belize, on July 29.
The other group C teams are Costa Ricans Saprissa and Cartaginés. On this day the “Ticos” bent to the Greens by 1-2 with annotations of Deyver Vega and Orlando Sinclair. Deportivo Saprissa also adds perfect toe in this tournament.
Thus they aligned
– Motagua (2): Marlon Licona; Christopher Meléndez, Giancarlo Sacaza, Sebastián Cardozo, Ricky Zapata (Jhen Portillo, m.46); Marcelo Santos, Denis Meléndez (Jefry Macías, m.46), Rodrigo Gómez (Luis Meléndez, m.78), Jorge Serrano (Óscar Discua, m.68); Carlos Mejía (Carlos Argueta, m.78) and Maicol Cabrera.
– Coach: Diego Vázquez.
– Independent (1): Jefferson Sánchez; Marlon Ávila, Jair Model, Sergio Ramírez, Orman Davis; Luis Fields (Jafet Obando, M.83), Moisés Yau (Ángel Valverde, M.65), Héctor Hurtado, Ángel Caicedo (Víctor Ávila, m.65); Rafael Águila and Kenny Bonilla.
– Coach: Franklyn Narváez.
– Goals: 1-0, m.55: Rodrigo Gómez, penalty. 2-0, m.57: Maicol Cabrera. 2-1, m.71: Ángel Valverde.
– Referee: David Gómez, from Costa Rica.
– Incidents: Group C match of the Central American Cup 2025 of the Concacaf played at the José de la Paz Herrera National Stadium, in Tegucigalpa.
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