Stoppage-time goal lifts Curacao into a 1-1 draw with Canada at Gold Cup

Canada paid for failing to decorativeness retired a crippled Saturday, conceding a 94th-minute equalizer successful a 1-1 gully with Curacao successful Group B play astatine the CONCACAF Gold Cup successful Houston.

Substitute Jeremy Antonisse's stoppage-time extremity came aft Canada mislaid possession adjacent midfield. The shot went to Antonisse, whose debased changeable deflected disconnected sliding defender Zorhan Bassong implicit goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair.

"We had warnings conscionable to archer america to beryllium a spot much careful, but they kept pushing and got the equalizer," said Canada skipper Jonathan David. "So evidently it's frustrating to get a necktie similar that but we person to support moving forward."

It had looked similar Nathan Saliba's aboriginal extremity was going to beryllium capable for a triumph that would person assured No. 30 Canada of a spot successful the tourney quarterfinals. But with 4 points from 2 games, Canada is inactive successful the driving spot successful the excavation up of its Group B finale Tuesday against No. 81 El Salvador successful Houston.

Canada thumped No. 75 Honduras 6-0 successful its opener Tuesday successful Vancouver, portion No. 90 Curacao played El Salvador to a scoreless gully successful San Jose, Calif.

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The precocious onslaught Saturday was apt owed for Curacao, which had 2 goals called backmost and a imaginable punishment negated successful the 2nd half.

"We've got to larn from these types of games," said adjunct manager Mauro Biello, who ran the sideline successful spot of suspended manager Jesse Marsch.

"That's an experienced squad implicit there. We fto it get a small spot excessively wide open, we gave distant silly fouls and they were conscionable pumping balls into the container and we had a hard clip dealing with 2nd balls, acceptable pieces."

Canada finished with 52 per cent possession. Both teams had six shots with Canada holding a 3-2 borderline successful shots connected target.

"A bully result," said 77-year-old Curacao manager Dick Advocaat, whose planetary managerial resume includes stints with the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Russia, Serbia, South Korea and Iraq.

It was 30 C at kickoff astatine Shell Energy Stadium and the vigor and sparse assemblage did small to boost the amusement worth of a contention Marsch watched from the stands.

El Salvador played Honduras successful the precocious crippled astatine the aforesaid venue.

After round-robin play, the 4 radical winners and 4 runners-up beforehand to the knockout stage, with quarterfinals scheduled for June 28-29, followed by the semifinals July 2 and last July 6 astatine Houston's NRG Stadium.

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Should Canada triumph its group, it would look the runner-up successful Group C (No. 33 Panama, No. 63 Jamaica, No. 106 Guatemala and unranked Guadeloupe) successful the quarterfinals, portion the second-place squad successful B faces the C winner.

Down 1-0, Curacao appeared to person tied it via Jurgen Locadia successful the 66th minute. Taking a backheel walk from Sherel Floranus, Locadia swivelled and fired a changeable past St. Clair. The extremity prompted chaotic celebrations astatine the Curacao bench, which were extinguished erstwhile video reappraisal confirmed an offside successful the buildup.

There was much contention successful the 83rd infinitesimal erstwhile a Curacao escaped footwear deed Saliba's limb successful the punishment box. But it was ruled that play had halted owed to a whistle from the crowd.

Costa Rican referee Juan Calderon restarted play with a dropped shot for Curacao. Roshon van Eijma scored connected a header disconnected the ensuing cross, lone to person the extremity ruled offside.

Saliba enactment Canada up successful the ninth infinitesimal aft a Jayden Nelson escaped footwear to the near of the Curacao punishment container adjacent the byline. A Curacao attempted clearance went to Saliba whose well-timed changeable from conscionable wrong the punishment container bushed a diving goalkeeper Eloy Room.

The 21-year-old midfielder, who has six Canada caps, has 2 vocation goals successful 68 regular-season games for CF Montreal.

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Canada had won each 3 erstwhile meetings with Curacao, including a 2-0 determination the past clip they met successful CONCACAF Nations League play successful March 2023.

The Canadian starting 11 went into Saturday's lucifer with conscionable 220 caps, with David (64) and defender Kamal Miller (48) accounting for 112 of them.

Canada had much of the shot successful the archetypal fractional with 55 per cent possession but could not crook that into much goals. And, astatine times, Curacao threatened connected the counterattack.

Canadian substitute Ali Ahmed lasted conscionable 14 minutes aft coming connected successful the 56th minute, rolling his ankle successful a scything tackle that earned Floranus a yellowish card.

Saturday's contention marks the extremity of Marsch's two-game prohibition arising from a reddish paper during the CONCACAF Nations League third-place crippled successful March. But the manager remains successful the spotlight, facing much disciplinary enactment initiated by CONCACAF from Canada's opening crippled connected Tuesday successful Vancouver.

CONCACAF said its Disciplinary Committee is reviewing whether Canada and Marsch did not travel regulations involving suspended officials and whether violative connection was utilized toward CONCACAF lucifer officials.

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Marsch made 5 changes to his starting lineup Saturday with Miller, Bassong, Nelson, Jacob Shaffelburg and Ismael Kone slotting in. Miller was joined successful the backline by Bassong, Joel Waterman and Niko Sigur, who came into the crippled with 21 caps betwixt the 3 of them.

Canada was without centre backmost Derek Cornelius, who is with the squad but dealing with a lower-body injury. Moise Bombito, Marsch's accustomed different starter astatine centre back, is recovering from wrist surgery.

Fellow defender Alistair Johnston, who arrived successful campy precocious from his honeymoon, came connected successful the 70th minute.

The Curacao starting 11 featured players from clubs successful Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the U.S.