SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Raúl Jiménez scored within the fiftieth minute off an help from 16-year-old Gilberto Mora and Mexico superior to its twelfth CONCACAF Gold Cup closing with a 1-0 victory over Honduras on Wednesday evening.
El Tri superior to play the US within the closing Sunday evening in Houston for the eighth assembly within the title recreation between the 2 international locations with Mexico proudly owning a 5-2 edge. Mexico has gained 9 Gold Cups, the U.S. seven and Canada one.
Mexico broke by way of early within the second half on a play began by Alexis Vega with a move to Mora close to the highest of the field. Mora slid a move to Jiménez, who beat Edrick Menjívar with a right-footed shot for his forty second profession worldwide objective.
No. 17 ranked Mexico appeared so as to add to that lead a couple of minutes later when Edson Álvarez tapped in a objective off a set piece however that was negated when video assessment dominated he was offside.
However El Tri managed to carry onto that lead as seventy fifth ranked Honduras was unable to generate an equalizer.
Honduras reached this stage for the primary time since 2013 regardless of shedding the opener of the match 6-0 to Canada. The Hondurans have not made the ultimate for the reason that inaugural match in 1991 after they misplaced in penalty kicks to the U.S.
There have been few good probabilities within the first half with Mexican goalie Luis Malagón making a simple save on Dixon Ramírez’s shot from outdoors the field after not dealing with any photographs on objective the previous two video games.
El Tri’s had two good alternatives late within the half. Johan Vásquez’s shot within the field deflected off Honduran defender Denil Maldonado and proper into the fingers of goalie Menjívar.
Menjívar then made a pointy save in opposition to Marcel Ruíz within the forty second minute and Julián Martínez cleared the rebound out of hazard.
There was a chippy second within the eleventh minute when a ball was performed into the Mexico bench space. Romell Quioto aggressively tried to get the ball for Honduras and Mexican reserve Guillermo Ochoa took exception, resulting in gamers on each groups getting heated and a yellow card for Ochoa.