The Panama and Jamaica soccer teams will fight this Sunday for third and fourth place in the Concacaf Nations League with the aim of closing their participation in the championship in the best way.
The Panamanians and the Jamaicans come to this duel after falling in the semifinals, in which both received three goals from their rivals despite showing a good game in their respective duels.
Panama, coached by the Hispano-Danish Thomas Christiansen, already knows this instance because in the last version they fell to Mexico, to finish in fourth place.
The defeat against “Tri” ended a streak of 7 consecutive games without losing in the Concacaf Nations League.
Now Panama and Jamaica, nations twinned by reggae music, They will meet for the first time in the Nations League.
Christiansen VS Hallgrímsson
For this consolation match, Christiansen will have to rebuild a team that came with every desire to get into the final after adding significant losses.
A forced change in the Panamanian eleventh will be that of midfielder Édgar Yoel Bárcenas, who leaves the Panama team due to a muscle injury. Now the Hispanic Dane has to put together his eleven without Bárcenas or Michael Amir Murillo, who did not make it to the competition due to being injured.
On the Jamaican side there is more than just a game: The “reggae boyz” will try to win and achieve a historic third place in their first “final four” of the Nations League.
Los coached by the Icelandic Heimir Hallgrímsson showed a good face in the semifinal duel against the United Statesbecause despite falling 3-1 they led throughout the game until the last seconds of the second half replacement.
In the history of matches between these two teams – 18 in total – the Panamanian team won nine games, with three losses and six draws while Jamaica, despite a streak of four defeats in its last five matches against Panama, will seek to repeat that victory achieved in the 2019 Gold Cup (1-0), with a goal from Darren Mattocks.
The last meeting between both nations ended with Panama’s victory (3-2) over Jamaica in January 2022 in the Concacaf qualifiers on the way to the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.
2024-03-24 18:50:18
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