10-man Canada eliminated in Gold Cup quarterfinal after penalty shootout loss to Guatemala

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 29, 2025 7:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Canada, reduced to 10 men erstwhile Jacob Shaffelburg was sent disconnected successful first-half stoppage time, exited the CONCACAF Gold Cup connected Sunday aft a 6-5 punishment shootout nonaccomplishment to Guatemala.

The quarterfinal went to spot kicks aft finishing tied 1-1 aft 90 minutes astatine U.S. Bank Stadium.

Tied 5-5 aft six rounds of the shootout, Canadian teenage defender Luc de Fougerolles deed the crossbar. Jose Morales stepped up and bushed Dayne St. Clair to nonstop the 106th-ranked Guatemalans into the semifinal.

Promise David, Daniel Jebbison, Derek Cornelius, Mathieu Choiniere and Nathan Saliba scored for No. 30 Canada successful the shootout. Kenderson Navarro stopped Cyle Larin

WATCH | Short-handed Canada exits Gold Cup aft shootout nonaccomplishment to Guatemala:

Oscar Santis, Nicola Samayoa, Aaron Herrera, Darwin Lom and Pero Altan besides scored for Guatemala successful the shootout.

Guatemala skipper Jose Pinto had a accidental to triumph it successful the 5th circular aft Larin's spot footwear was saved but sent his punishment implicit the bar.

Canada exited the 2023 Gold Cup successful a quarterfinal punishment shootout nonaccomplishment to the U.S. The Canadians besides mislaid a shootout to Ivory Coast successful the caller Canadian Shield Tournament successful Toronto with de Fougerolles denied from the punishment spot.

Guatemala volition play either the 16th-ranked U.S. oregon No. 54 Costa Rica successful Wednesday's semifinal astatine Energizer Park successful St. Louis. The Americans and Costa Ricans met successful the nightcap of Sunday's doubleheader astatine U.S. Bank Stadium, location of the NFL's Vikings.

Leading 1-0 via a 30th-minute Jonathan David penalty, Canada was reduced to 10 men erstwhile Shaffelburg was shown a 2nd yellowish paper for bodying Stheven Robeles to the ground. He picked up the archetypal caution successful the 40th infinitesimal for taking down CF Montreal's Olger Escobar.

The Canadians did not beryllium backmost successful the 2nd half, coming guardant erstwhile not absorbing the unit of Guatemala hunting for an equalizer. But Rubio Rubin tied it for Guatemala successful the 69th infinitesimal with a stylish header disconnected a Santis transverse to headdress disconnected a well-constructed attack.

The Oregon-born Rubin earned 7 caps for the U.S. before, taking vantage of household ties to Guatemala, switching his planetary allegiance. He plays his nine shot for the Charleston Battery successful the USL Championship.

While determination was nary of the over-the-top physicality shown by El Salvador successful Canada's last Group B game, determination was nary shortage of niggle Sunday, beryllium it an other shove oregon shot kicked astatine a downed Canadian player. And the affectional somesthesia roseate successful a frenetic 2nd half.

Jonathan David went down repeatedly successful the 2nd half, receiving attraction twice.

Defending champion Mexico, ranked 17th successful the world, faces No. 75 Honduras successful the different semifinal Wednesday astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, Calif.

The archetypal fractional was entertaining with the 30th-ranked Canadians attacking from the get-go and No. 106 Guatemala responding with the occasional counter-attack. Canada won six corners successful the archetypal 20 minutes.

Costa Rican referee Keylor Herrera pointed to the punishment spot successful the 27th infinitesimal erstwhile Tani Oluwaseyi, enactment down the defence by a pinpoint Richie Laryea pass, went down successful the box. The interaction with Aaron Herrera, a erstwhile CF Montreal player, was minimal but the determination passed video review.

Jonathan David, who had a punishment saved the erstwhile crippled against El Salvador, made nary mistake this time. He recovered the country of the extremity for his 36th extremity successful 67 appearances, adding to his Canadian men's scoring record.

Canada manager Jesse Marsch made 2 changes to his starting 11 with St. Clair, who played the archetypal 2 Group B games earlier giving mode to Max Crepeau, returning successful extremity and Oluwaseyi replacing Promise David up front.

The Canadian starting 11 went into the crippled with a combined 353 caps with David (66 caps), Laryea (64), Alistair Johnston (55) and Tajon Buchanan (50) accounting for 235 of them. Buchanan, who was seen clutching the backmost of his limb successful the archetypal half, gave mode to Jebbison successful the 58th minute.

Navarro started successful extremity for Guatemala successful spot of the injured Nicho Hagen, a backup with the Columbus Crew, and did well, commanding his punishment container and initiating Guatemala attacks with savvy shot distribution.

Canada had 59 per cent possession successful the archetypal fractional and had a 4-3 borderline successful shots (2-2 successful shots connected target) and 7-2 successful corners.

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Canada came into the crippled with 10-2-2 all-time grounds against Guatemala was unbeaten successful the erstwhile 5 meetings (4-0-1), dating backmost to a 2-0 nonaccomplishment successful August 2004 successful World Cup qualifying successful Burnaby, B.C. The teams played to a scoreless gully the past clip they met, successful radical play astatine the 2023 Gold Cup.

Canada defeated Honduras 6-0, tied No. 90 Curacao 1-1 and dispatched No. 81 El Salvador 2-0 to triumph Group B. Guatemala finished runner-up to No. 33 Panama successful Group C, beating No. 63 Jamaica 1-0 and unranked Guadeloupe 3-2 and losing 1-0 to Panama.

Canada, which won the tourney successful 2000, had made the quarterfinals successful the past 4 editions of the Gold Cup but had lone precocious erstwhile — successful 2021 erstwhile it mislaid 2-1 to Mexico successful the semifinal aft beating Costa Rica 2-0.

Guatemala reaches the semifinal for conscionable the 2nd time, pursuing 1996 erstwhile it mislaid 1-0 to eventual champion Mexico. The Guatemala roster features 4 MLS players including Hagen and Escobar.