He won 1-2 visit at the Antonio Maceo stadium and got among those classified at the last tie
What could be a historic afternoon for Cuba ended in nightmare. A draw against Bermudas was enough to qualify for the last round of the Concacaf Qualifiers towards the FIFA 2026 Soccer World Cup, and closed at home, but lost.
The team does not achieve a classification to the last phase of Concacaf since 1982, and this was the ideal occasion, and all hopes were to be achieved, but in the end, everything ended in failure.
Bermudas surprised with an early goal, 6 ', from Djair Parfitt-Williams, and then closed to starve the counterattack. He was intelligent, and Cuba tried everywhere, but without being too deep.
He had more the ball, for 60% against 40%, but he barely fired more (8 shots for 6), although of those, only 2 went to the arc for 3 of the visitors.
In spite of everything, the result was getting it when Jorge Aguirre tied the actions on 58 ', and everything indicated that he would achieve the draw and the ticket to the last stage, but in the absence of 16 minutes to the end, Reggie Lambe gave the goal of the classification to Bermuda, to consummate the first big surprise of the second elimination phase.
In the group, Honduras is a leader (already classified) with 9 units, and is pending at the close of this note (they play at 8 pm) their closing duel against Antigua and Barbuda. Cuba followed with 6, while Bermudas accumulated 4, but with the triumph of this, he went to 7 units to ensure second place and classification.
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