Canada advances in CONCACAF Gold Cup, beats El Salvador 2-0

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 7:14 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Jonathan David and Tajon Buchanan scored two minutes, 35 seconds isolated aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional and Canada defeated El Salvador 2-0 connected Tuesday nighttime successful Houston to scope the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals.

El Salvador, which was eliminated, finished 2 men abbreviated aft Santos Ortiz and Jairo Henriquez were ejected precocious successful the archetypal half.

Canada won Group B with 7 points and precocious to a quarterfinal against Guatemala connected Sunday successful Minneapolis, with the victor moving connected to a semifinal against the U.S. oregon Costa Rica.

In the different quarterfinals, Mexico meets Saudi Arabia and Panama plays Honduras, some connected Saturday successful Glendale, Arizona.

El Salvador was past successful the radical with 1 point, becoming the 14th squad not to people a extremity successful the radical stage.

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Canada manager Jesse Marsch returned from a two-game suspension assessed for his behaviour during the CONCACAF Nations League third-place lucifer against the U.S. successful March.

David scored successful the 53rd minute, his Canada grounds 35th extremity successful 66 appearances. He took a walk from Mathieu Choiniere, turned and bushed goalkeeper Mario Gonzalez to the acold station with a diagonal changeable from astir 15 yards.

Gonzalez had jumped to his near to prevention David's punishment footwear successful first-half stoppage clip aft a foul by Jefferson Valladares connected Jacob Shaffelburg.

Buchanan scored his eighth extremity successful the 56th, lifting the shot implicit Gonzalez aft a provender from Niko Sigur, who had intercepted Diego Flores' pass

Ortiz received yellowish cards successful the 13th and 35th minutes, the 2nd for a lunging tackle from down connected Sigur. Henriquez got a reddish paper successful the ninth infinitesimal of first-half stoppage clip for elbowing Alistair Johnston successful the head.

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Ortiz and Henriquez volition beryllium suspended erstwhile El Salvador starts the 3rd circular of World Cup qualifying successful September.

Honduras defeated Curacao 2-1 astatine San Jose, California, connected Luis Palma's extremity successful second-half stoppage time.

Panama bushed Jamaica 4-1 astatine Austin, Texas, down Ismael Diaz's chapeau instrumentality to triumph Group C with a 3-0 record, and the Reggae Boyz were eliminated successful the radical signifier for the archetypal clip since 2009. Guatemala bushed Guadeloupe 3-2 successful Houston.

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