UNITED STATES AND PANAMA will play at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, their second match of the CONMEBOL Copa America 2024.
The meeting will feature the arbitration by Iván Barton (El Salvador), while Tatiana Guzman (Nicaragua) will be in charge of the VARHere are ten facts from the preview of the match.
1 – Panama and the United States will meet for the first time in the history of the competition.
2 – The most repeated duel in the CONCACAF Gold Cup will be reissued where they faced each other on 12 occasions.
3 – The last meeting between the two teams was in the semi-finals of the 2023 Gold Cup where the Canaleros advanced to the final after winning on penalties.
4 – The United States scored goals in 18 of 19 home games against Panama. The only record they had was a 0-0 draw in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the 2005 Gold Cup final, which the Americans won on penalties (3-1).
5 – The hosts of the 2024 Copa América debuted with a 2-0 victory against Bolivia with a great game from Christian Pulisic, who scored, assisted and totaled 4 shots at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
6 – The captain, who scored the fastest goal for the USA in the Copa América (141 seconds), scored 4 goals in his 4 games against the Panamanian national team.
7 – Panama presents the historical record of being the only team that defeated the United States in the group stage of the CONCACAF Gold Cup (11-JUN-2011). It was for Group C in 2011, 2-1 (Clarence Goodson; Clarence Goodson e/c and Gabriel Gomez).
8 – Michael Murillo has 2 goals and 1 assist in his last 6 games with the national team.
9 – The United States is undefeated against Concacaf opponents in the CONMEBOL Copa América: 0-0 against Mexico in the 1995 quarterfinals (they won on penalties) and 4-0 against Costa Rica in the group stage in 2016.
10 – The United States has never started an edition of the tournament with two wins (they won in their debut against Bolivia) and only achieved it once in the history of the competition: there were three in 2016.
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