One of the biggest football rivalries in Central America will be renewed on Monday, when the U23 teams from Honduras Yes Savior faces on the second day of group B in Pre-Olympic concacaf Course to Tokyo 2021.
Akron Stadium, the headquarters of Chivas de GuadalajaraIt will be the spectacular setting that will host the important commitment that could condemn the Bicolor classification among the best four in the championship.
See: Table of positions for the 2021 Concacaf pre-Olympic tournament
Honduras is full of confidence after an initial 3-0 victory over Haiti, in which the bicolors confirmed their favoritism in the group with a solid victory against the Caribbean, with scores of Darixon Back, who scored a double, and Edwin Rodríguez.
The Catracha team took advantage of the facilities and did all the damage in the first half of the game, a situation they will try to repeat against Cuscatlecos in order to condemn their ticket to the semifinals of the CONCACAF competition.
For their part, El Salvador will try to get out of their awkward position after falling in their 2-0 debut against Canada, where they showed their best performance in the second half of the conflict, but did not -adjusted to get a better result.
Coach El Salvador, Hugo Perez, appreciated the confrontation with Honduras and assured that, despite the importance of the duel, the match is not one of life or death, because it does not consider a failure if they are eliminated from the pre-Olympic.
STATISTICS
El Salvador and Honduras will meet for the third time in the CONCACAF pre-Olympic tournament.
In the two previous engagements, both were victorious.
The first time was on November 9, 2007, with a 3-0 result in favor of Honduras. The scorers for Bicolor were Ramón Núñez, Hendry Thomas and Erick Norales.
For the second time, Honduras defeated El Salvador again 3-2 in extra time, heading to London 2012. The catrachos goals were scored by Anthony ‘Choco’ Lozano and Gerson Rodas; The latter passed the Bicolor with a double in overtime.
POSSIBLE ALIGNMENTS
Savior: Mario González, Kevin Menjívar, Ronald Rodríguez, Rómulo Villalobos, Alexis Renderos, Melvin Cartagena, Herberth Díaz, Enrico Dueñas, Joshua Pérez, Ezequiel Rivas, Marvin Márquez. DT: Hugo Pérez.
Honduras: Alex Güity, Cristopher Meléndez, Denil Maldonado, José García, Wesly Decas, Kervin Arriaga, Jonathan Núñez, Edwin Rodríguez, Luis Palma, Darixon Vuelta, Douglas Martínez. DT: Miguel Falero.
Referee: César Ramos (Mexico).
stage: Akron.