Wednesday, November 20

Goodbye to sleep: Guatemala draws with Curaçao and says goodbye to Qatar 2022


Scoreboard parity does not it was enough to pass the first round and for this edition the illusion of going to the first World Cup in its history was extinguished

Adiós al sueño: Guatemala empata con Curazao y se despide de Qatar 2022
The Guatemala team came out with an attack strategy, but the goal never came.

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Joan Camargo

The faced against Curacao as part of the last day of Group C in the first round of the qualifying rounds of Concacaf for him Qatar World Cup 2022.

The party is weak from every point of view and with few opportunities to goal ended with a score of 0-0, that benefited the Caribbean eleven.

In the match a ticket was defined to the next phase, in which they face in a round trip series with the winner of Group D, which can be Panama or Dominican Republic.

❌ REMOVED! ❌

🇬🇹 Guatemala is out of the fight to qualify for the Qatar World Cup 2022 🇶🇦

💻 https://t.co/w9CZxsirKx 📲 pic.twitter.com/ 2447 cxptWr

– ESPN Guatemala (@ESPN_GT) June 9, 2021

Those directed by Amarini Villatoro took to the field with the purpose of winning or dying, but the result did not favor them.

The team stood with a line-up that was looking to attack. Goalkeeper Hagen in the goal. A line of three in the defense made up of Hernández, García and Pinto.

In the midfield were Robles, Sarabia, Barrientos and Peleg. While the attack was made up of Santis, Lom and Martínez. In short, a 3-4-3 formation in attack .

19 ‘Santis took a powerful shot, but the local goalkeeper avoided the Guatemalan goal.

🇨🇼 Curaçao 0-0 Guatemala 🇬🇹

– ESPN Guatemala (@ESPN_GT) June 9, 1999

One of the few arrivals to the Curaçao area was registered to the minute 19 match, when Oscar Alexander Santis fired a rifle to the area. However the goal cry was drowned out by the good performance of the Caribbean goalkeeper .

With this result, Guatemala is left out of the Next year’s World Cup event, while Curaçao had a draw that served to pass and now awaits the winner of Group D.

💔 Qatar 2022 It will not be for Guatemala either 💔

🇬🇹 The Chapines tie without goals on their visit to Curaçao and lose the opportunity to continue dreaming of a Cup of the world.

🇨🇼 The islanders enter the next phase. pic.twitter.com/I0xGZSfxXR

– Out of Play (@ESPN_FDJ)

June 9, 1999

The Curaçao technician Patrick Kluivert went into the match with a solid team on defense , but without sparing attack possibilities, because they knew that with the parity on the scoreboard they would triumph.

Without a doubt it represents a penalty for the Guatemalans to lose in the first round of the qualifying rounds, and more when there were dreams of qualifying, taking into account that whites have never participated in a soccer World Cup.