Francisco Calvo and Josimar Alcocer scored targets within the first seven minutes of the match to assist Costa Rica notch a 2-1 victory over Paraguay in Copa America Group D play on Tuesday evening at Austin, Texas.
Costa Rica goalkeeper Patrick Sequeira made a hand save within the third minute of second-half stoppage time to guard the victory.
Costa Rica (1-1-1, 4 factors) completed third within the group, one level behind Brazil, and didn’t advance to the quarterfinals. Paraguay (0-3-0, 0 factors) got here in final.
Calvo struck within the third minute and Alcocer tallied within the seventh for Costa Rica.
Ramon Sosa scored for Paraguay, which was outscored 8-3 in pool play.
Paraguay had an opportunity to attract even close to the top of the match after Kaku took a nook kick and despatched it towards the goalmouth. The ball glanced off the top of Paraguay’s Fabian Balbuena and landed on the ft of teammate Angel Romero, who shortly kicked it, however Sequeira acquired his proper fingers on the ball to stymie Paraguay.
Costa Rica took simply two pictures, and each went into the web.
Paraguay had 17 pictures and positioned six heading in the right direction.
After being blanked in its first two Copa matches, Costa Rica shortly ended the drought with two early targets.
Joseph Mora arrange the primary objective with a left-footed cross into the field. Calvo was in nice place and headed the ball into the web.
4 minutes later, Costa Rica made it 2-0 when Alcocer took a protracted right-footed shot that beat Paraguay goalkeeper Rodrigo Morinigo.
Paraguay displayed life within the second half and at last acquired on the board on Sosa’s objective within the fifty fifth minute. Sosa ripped a right-footed blast into the higher proper nook of the web.
9 minutes later, Julio Enciso delivered a tough right-footer from outdoors the field, and Sequeira made the save.
Enciso additionally had a stable likelihood to attain within the first half, however his lengthy right-footed shot was saved by Sequeira.
–Discipline Stage Media