Gold Cup: United States-Canada and Mexico-Brazil in ‘semies’

Women’s soccer teams Mexico and USA This Sunday they finished the semifinals of golden cup of football where El Tri will face Brazil and will challenge the Stars and Stripes team Canada. The BMO Stadium, located in the American city of Los Angeles, served as the setting for the last two matches of the semifinals.

The Mexican team had to work hard to beat Paraguay 3-2, and in the second match the United States beat Colombia 3-0. The host team barely needed the first half to defeat Cafeteras with a penalty goal in the 13th minute by Lindsey Horan, another by Jenna Nighswonger and that by Jaedyn Shaw in the second minute of annexation. Nervous, many errors in delivering the ball and gross errors in defense were condemned by the team led by Angelo Marsiglia.

Mexico, who went through the group stage as leaders of Group A with 7 points from a possible 9 and 10 goals in favor, won with a double from Lizbeth ‘la Maga’ Ovalle, one of the tournament’s two scorers with five goals. The students of Spanish coach Pedro López Ramos chose the offensive from the start and pushed the Paraguayans towards their goal until the 31st minute. Ovalle opened the scoring with a cross shot that Paraguayan goalkeeper Alicia Bobadilla couldn’t save.

Just at the start of the second half, in the 49th minute, Mexico’s second goal came, a goal from Karen Luna who kicked the ball into the area cleared by the Guaraní defense after a corner kick. In the 64th minute, Paraguay scored with a header from Camila Barbosa and five minutes later Ovalle increased the score again after a rebound from the goalkeeper was unable to prevent the third goal for Tri Feminina.

In the 74th minute, Rebeca Fernández made the final 3-2 not enough for Paraguay to tie and it helped the Mexicans meet Brazil in San Diego on March 6 and secure the first place for the Women’s final Gold Cup.