INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Raúl Jiménez scored twice, together with as soon as from the penalty spot within the 92nd minute, to ship the Mexico males’s nationwide workforce again to the highest of North and Central American soccer right here at SoFi Stadium in Sunday’s CONCACAF Nations League remaining.
Mexico beat Panama, 2-1, to win the four-year-old competitors for the primary time.
In stoppage time of a bodily, fractured sport, Jiménez stepped up and put his stamp on a match that he owned. He transformed the penalty, and easily stood nonetheless as bedlam exploded throughout him. Teammates mobbed him. Some 60,000 followers erupted. A whole lot of beer cups rained down towards the sector in celebration. And Mexico reclaimed the CONCACAF throne that it as soon as owned.
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Mon, March 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM GMT+1FULL-TIME: Mexico 2-1 PanamaMon, March 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM GMT+195′ Substitutions
95′ | Double mexican subs➡️ S. Gimenez & J. Gallardo➡️ J. Angulo & O. Pineda
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM GMT+1HIGHLIGHT: Jiménez drills the late penalty Mon, March 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM GMT+1Mon, March 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM GMT+192′ GOAL – Mexico 2-1 Panama
Jimenez drills the doubtless game-winner within the 92nd minute! He is been the perfect participant on the sector all night time.
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM GMT+189′ Penalty for Mexico
Raul Jimenez strains as much as take the shot after a handball contained in the field.
It .
It marred the 2024 remaining.
As I wrote two years in the past, . No, there is no such thing as a simple answer; but in addition, CONCACAF, Mexican soccer authorities and lots of others have dragged their toes for years looking for an answer.
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM GMT+186′ Play resumes after a short stoppage as a result of discriminatory chant
Suspended as a result of “p***” chant.
It would doubtless resume in a minute or two, however who is aware of what is going to occur if followers maintain doing the mantra.
… and organizers aren’t doing something about it.
Mexico followers have screamed “p***” en masse not less than 5 instances tonight. The primary one is meant to set off an in-stadium warning, and the beginning of the three-step protocol.
We simply received our first warning after the fifth (and loudest) one, within the 82nd minute.
Each groups nonetheless going for it, with 14 minutes of the 90 to go.
Each look able to find a second aim.
Introduced attendance, by the best way, is 68,212. Not a sellout, however it very a lot stuffed in for the ultimate.
Mexico’s finest qualities and its clearest flaws have been on show right here.
They play with loads of ardour. They’ve clearly purchased in to what Aguirre is preaching. They’ve two very good strikers, and Edson has been near his combative finest.
However, they lack attacking construction and creativity. Roberto Alvarado simply epitomized that when he let an assault fizzle with a sloppy contact on the proper wing. So that they have not been in a position to overwhelm Panama.
Nonetheless 1-1, 74th minute.
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM GMT+164′ Substitutions for El Tri
58′ | Double mexican sub 🇲🇽⬅️ L. Romo & R. Alvarado➡️L. Chávez & A. Vega
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM GMT+160′ Substitution – Panama subs in José Fajardo for Cecilio WatermanMon, March 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM GMT+1Second half begins
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM GMT+1HIGHLIGHT: Carrasquilla’s equalizer
Panama got here to play. Took an early punch and by no means even wobbled. (Additionally received primarily the very same penalty that Canada did not get three days earlier.)
Virtually regardless of how this remaining ends, Los Canaleros have been probably the most spectacular workforce this week.
Needs to be a superb second half.
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM GMT+146′ GOAL – Mexico 1-1 Panama
Panama’s Adalberto Carrasquilla will get the penalty previous Luis Malagon to even issues up simply earlier than halftime.
Mon, March 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM GMT+145′ Penalty awarded to Panama after a foul on Cecilio Waterman
Panama is the inferior workforce, and is out of its consolation zone — it will possibly’t simply sit within the 5-4-1 it used to frustrate the U.S.
So, it might’ve been honest to count on Mexico to run away with this sport. However they have not. Panama has discovered a very good stability between attacking in numbers and sustaining its construction.
Nonetheless 1-0 with halftime approaching.