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How the Guatemala match turned out: The details of the defeat against Ecuador
The Ecuadorian National Team defeated Guatemala at the Red Bull Arena in New Jersey. The bicolor’s next rival will be Venezuela on March 24.
Alejandro Galindo from Guatemala disputes the ball with Alexander Domínguez from Ecuador. (Free Press Photo: EFE)
The Guatemalan National Team was defeated 2-0 in its first friendly match scheduled for the Fifa date this Thursday, March 21 against its counterpart from Ecuador at the Red Bull Arena in New Jersey.
From the beginning, the match took the direction that Ecuador intended. Barely seven minutes had passed when the South American team already won it.
It was thanks to high-speed football that the 23-year-old winger Yohn Yeboah He managed to score his first goal with the Ecuador national team shirt in what was also his debut with the tricolor jersey.
The play was started by Ipswich Town player, Jeremy Sarmiento; Yeboah only had to accommodate the ball and hit a powerful left foot shot that left Guatemalan goalkeeper Nicholas Hagen with no options.
After the goal Yeboah continued to be one of Ecuador’s main offensive cards; However, Guatemala’s defensive efforts bore fruit and the one born in Germany and with Ecuadorian roots no longer stood out in the same way.
As the minutes passed, Guatemala evened the balance and dared to attack on the right wing where Aarón Herrera, the DC United defender, demonstrated a level consistent with that of the Ecuadorian National Team.
Already in the second half, both Luis Fernando Tena, coach of Guatemala, and Félix Suárez, coach of Ecuador, moved their pieces and made several changes.
He was precisely one of the men who entered the second half and who decided the match in favor of the South American team: Gonzalo Plata, who took Jeremy Sarmiento’s place in the 73rd minute, sent the ball to the back of Nicholas’ goal. Hagen after taking advantage of a counterattack by Ecuador in the 86th minute.
The defeat on March 21 is the fourth in the last five games for Guatemala. The last time the bicolor won was in September 2023 when they defeated El Salvador 2-0 in the Concacaf Nations League; Since then, the team led by Luis Fernando Tena has lost 4 games and 2 draws.
Guatemala’s next game will be on Sunday, March 24 against Venezuela at 4 p.m. in Houston.
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