The pre-Olympic team presented some rotations in its starting line-up for the last match of the group stage against Haiti and obtained an important victory for the collective spirit, but it is still necessary to define whether to qualify or not.
Select Under-23 from El Salvador ends pre-Olympic CONCACAF group stage at Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara on Thursday Haiti. What Selecta needs is a resounding victory with three goals difference or more, as well as the hope that Honduras and Canada will not draw in the basic game of the day.
Winner, bully and prayer: the slogan of the pre-Olympic selection and the dream of the semifinals
The list of the Salvadoran-American coach Hugo Perez will present positional and naming rotations to face a match that holds a lot of emotions and clashes with a Haiti that is also alive in its Olympic dream and will not want to relieve the blue and white.
Watch the best incidents of the match, below:
90 ′: Emmanuel Francois got himself booked for a foul
90 ′: Four minutes are added to the second half.
89 ′: Tomás Romero returned to save Selecta with a save after a Haitian shot.
86 ′: Joshua Pérez was ever so close to scoring after an excellent corner was met beautifully by, but the ball bounced off the post to safety.
84 ′: Changes in El Salvador. Eric Calvillo and Gerber Chávez enter for Enrico Dueñas and Kevin Menjívar.
80 ′: U-23 Selecta was close again, an attacking projection of Fernando Castillo who hit the goal, but the Haitian goalkeeper managed to hold the ball in two halves.
75 ′: El Salvador keeps approaching the Haitian goal, Joshua Pérez made a new route to the right and when he passed down, goalkeeper Jerome stopped him.
70 ′: El Salvador tries to hold the ball in the middle of the field in Haiti, trying to shake the dominance of the red-blue team in the previous minutes. The minutes pass and the goal difference becomes vital to continue with the dream of the semifinals.
66 ′: Denilson Pierre receives a yellow card for the Haiti national team.
65 ′: Haiti took the initiative in this section of the match and approached the national goal with force and asked for Tomás Romero, who appeared rejecting three balls on the goal line. The Los Angeles FC goalkeeper makes an excellent appearance at his debut.
64 ′: El Salvador has been saved! Lisandro Claros saved a luxury ball that came from the Haitian team in the national area and sent it to the corner. The ball did not go over.

Melvin Cartagena (i) of El Salvador plays the ball with Roberto Louima (bottom) of Haiti today, during a group stage match of the men’s Olympic qualifying tournament Concacaf, held at the Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico). Photo: EFE
59 ′: Change to Select. Fernando Castillo enters, Ezequiel Rivas leaves. Change in Haiti. Emmanuel Francois enters for Eliader Dorlus. In the 44th minute Clifford Thomas joined Dutherson Clerveaux in the Caribbean team.
58 ′: It continues to be difficult for the pre-Olympic team to score all the opportunities offered to them in the match, in order to increase the income of the goals in the match.
52 ′: Next to EL SALVADOR! Herbert Díaz hits him from outside the box and the ball goes to the side of the goal. In the next play, Joshua Pérez hit his head in the small area and the ball refused to enter the frame again.
THE SECOND TIME: The second 45 minutes from Jalisco Stadium started unchanged by the two teams.
45 + 2 ′: GOOOAAAL – EL SALVADOR! Joshua Pérez took the opportunity to finish in two innings to defeat goalkeeper Jerome and regain the national advantage. The Ibiza striker was careful in the area, where he hit a ball with his head on the wing and collapsed in the post, then scored on the counter.
45 + 1 ′: ABOUT SCORE! Ezequiel Rivas hit that from around 35 yards out and Odilon Jerome and couldn’t do anything about, dipping and swerving, it did him all ends up. The game came from another great incursion on the right by Joshua Pérez, who finished before goalkeeper Alan Jerome left, but rejected the ball and in the second half Rivas hit it.
45 ′: Two minutes are added in the first half.
43 ‘: SEARCH! Marvin Márquez did not manage to connect with it, as his team mates had hoped, and the ball went out.
42 ′: The dangerous game of the Haitians does not end in anything, because Dutherson Clerveaux touched the ball with his hand and the game was canceled.
37 ′: CLOSED BY GOAL! A classy 1-2 between Kevin Menjívar and Joshua Pérez on the left side. The ball was then played back to Herbert Díaz who let the ball run and kicked it into the net.
33 ′: THE SELECT WAS SAVED! Another lost ball on the field by Enrico Dueñas was about to end in a goal. The game could have been penalized for a penalty kick by El Salvador after a clear cross from Roberto Louima and his shot was saved by Kevin Menjívar on the goal line.
29 ′: Near EL SALVADOR! Ezequiel Rivas was about to score, but his header went over the Haitian goal. The ball came in from the right hand side but Enrico Dueñas Hernández managed to save it with an unbelievable reaction stop.
27 ′: El Salvador continues to maintain pressure as Haiti tries to get out of its own part of the field. Dynamic party in Jalisco.

Herberth Díaz (l) from El Salvador plays the ball with Dutherson Clerveaux from Haiti today, during a group stage match of the CONCACAF men’s Olympic football tournament, held at Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico. Photo: EFE
24 ′: El Salvador failed! Selecta’s high pressure was imposed on the Haitians and they had stolen the ball in the area, but Marvin Márquez could not hit it effectively and wasted the second of Selecta.
The Haitian team found a hole in the Salvadoran defense after losing the ball in a fantasy play by Dutch footballer Vitesse. Peterson Joseph takes the ball that Enrico weakened, passes it to Louima, who ran ahead of the Salvadorans and defined with a reduced shot on the left side of Tomás Romero’s goal.
21 ′: Haiti goal! Roberto Louima scores … After receiving a great cross from the right touchline, Roberto Louima controlled the ball and left Enrico Dueñas behind.
El Salvador knew how to capitalize on the first great opportunity of the attack with a millimeter pass from Enrico Dueñas Hernández to Joshua Pérez, who beat the mark of the two defenders and finished the Haitian goalkeeper in a fine way.
19 ′: GOOOAAAL – EL SALVADOR! Joshua Pérez finishes in the Haitian goal after receiving a good filtered pass and opened the account in Guadalajara.
17 ′: Joshua Pérez shoots from distance, but it will take something special to beat Alan Jerome who gathers it with ease.
15 ′: Odilon Jerome receives the first yellow card of the match for a violent shot by Ezequiel Rivas.
14 ′: ROMERO FLIES! Salvadoran goalkeeper Tomás Romero was careful to fly and take the shot that was placed in the first post, although he had a teammate covering that position.
9 ′: Haiti is coming! Peterson Joseph had a couple of good opportunities to reply, but the home team’s keeper Tomás Romero just wouldn’t surrender.
7 ′: La Selecta puts a lot of pressure on Haiti’s work, asserting its obligation to achieve victory.
5 ‘: El Salvador took the initiative of the match, bringing more intent to attack, while Haiti could not force more than half of the field. Despite this, there is a lot of inaccuracy on the part of the two sets.
1 ‘: THE MATCH HAS BEGUN! El Salvador needs victory against Haitians to stay alive in the pre-Olympic tournament.
DATA: Haiti is on the same line that played against Honduras, a kind of 4-4-2, with Roberto Louima and Peterson Joseph as older men, to try to overcome the defensive work that U-23 Selecta does.
SCHEME: As the lineup indicates, El Salvador would opt for its traditional 4-2-3-1, where Enrico Dueñas Hernández is “10”, a position he covered in an excellent way in the last section against Honduras, leaving him on Marvin Márquez, more intentionally on the offensive side.
DATA: El Salvador has four changes to Monday’s game against Honduras. Young goalkeeper Tomás Romero takes over from Mario González, Kevin Menjívar returns to the team for Rómulo Villalobos, who has accumulated yellow cards, Melvin Cartagena takes over from Isaac Portillo and Marvin Márquez does it for Eric Calvillo.
Match lines between El Salvador and Haiti. Photo: Illustrative and non-commercial image / https://twitter.com/Concacaf/status/1375218791001522179/photo/1