Canada comfortably shut out Curacao with a 2-0 victory in the CONCACAF Nations League

The Canadian males’s nationwide workforce secured the 2-0 victory over Curacao as objectives by Jonathan David and Cyle Larin secured John Herdman’s facet all three factors. 

In their first aggressive match since the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Canada acquired a simple win. The scoring acquired began in the twenty third minute with a Jonathan David purpose offered by right-back Richie Larryea. 

Curacao did not react nicely, getting pissed off shortly till defender Jurien Gaari acquired despatched off with a second yellow simply 38 minutes into the match. After that, the Canadians by no means regarded again, dominating possession and pictures on the right track, culminating with a Cyle Larin strike in the forty third minute proper earlier than halftime to make it 2-0. 

Giving feedback after the match, head coach John Herdman thought his squad did the job nicely and applauded his workforce’s effort.

“A really professional performance from the lads. Coming here is not easy. It was a very motivated Curaçao team. I thought the players controlled their emotions well. I thought strategically, they did well today and defensively were tight, and then [we showed] our quality in the moments we needed to.”

The Canada manager also hailed the budding partnership between David and Larin playing up top as a strike duo.

“They’re in great form. They’ve been training all week, they’ve partnered well, you can see they’re starting to read off each other playing in a front two. [If you give] them half a chance they’ll take it,” he said.

Now, the team must turn their attention to Monday’s match against Honduras to close out the March window.

“I just hope that they come with the spirit to open up [systematically] and can make a game of it. The fans, they’ll enjoy our match against Honduras. [It’s] always competitive and always physical. And it’ll come down to our quality. If we’re able to show what we did tonight [against Curacao] in the big moments we capitalize, we can win that match, but they have quality.”

Canada will get the likelihood to clinch their group and advance to the CONCACAF Nations League finals as they play Honduras on March twenty eighth at BMO Field in Toronto, Canada.