USMNT ousted from Gold Cup on Penalties
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Adalberto Carrasquilla scored against Matt Turner to win shootout 5-4 against defending champions
San Diego (Reuters) - Orlando Mosquera saved a penalty by Cristian Roldan in the sixth round of the shootout to help Panama defeat the U.S. men's national team in a semifinal of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in San Diego on Wednesday.
After the save in the top of the frame, Adalberto Carrasquilla scored against Matt Turner to win the shootout 5-4 against the defending champions.
Mosquera also saved Jesus Ferreira in the first round, while Turner stopped Cristian Martinez in the third.Panama will play the final Sunday in Inglewood, Cal., against the Mexico-Jamaica winner.
The match was scoreless through 90 minutes of regulation before Ivan Anderson gave Panama a 1-0 lead in the 99th minute. Ferreira tied it six minutes later.
It was looking similar to the U.S. match against Canada in the quarterfinals on Sunday when the Canadians went up 2-1 in extra time before the Americans got the equalizer and won the penalty shootout with two Turner saves.
Anderson, who scored his first goal in his fifth international match, chipped the ball over an onrushing Turner, who stepped outside the box and rolled the ball into the empty net. Ferreira, who had back-to-back hat tricks in the group stage, scored on a volley after Jordan Morris won a header to him.
This was the first time the USMNT went to extra time in consecutive matches, and it had never played extra time twice in the same tournament.The U.S. had just one chance in the opening half, and that came 24 seconds into the match when Cade Cowell, in his first Gold Cup start, hit the right post.
Panama had 56 percent of the possession and nearly double the passes (341-173), yet couldn't find the breakthrough.Early in the second half, Turner made an outstanding reactionary save on a powerful one-bounce header by Ismael Diaz.
The U.S. dodged a possible penalty in the fourth minute of regulation stoppage time when video review determined Djordje Mihailovic did not commit a handball.
