Trinidad & Tobago vs El Salvador

Trinidad & Tobago and El Salvador continue their 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign at the Toyota Stadium, with the latter looking to all but cement their place in the quarter-finals with a win here.

Trinidad & Tobago stood their ground against reigning Gold Cup champions Mexico on Matchday 1, pulling off a hard-fought scoreless draw to stretch their unbeaten run in all competitions to seven games (W3, D4). Trinidad’s 2021 Gold Cup campaign began with a 6-1 thrashing of Montserrat in the preliminary semi-finals that served as a build-up to a penalty shoot-out triumph over French Guiana in the play-off final. The ‘Soca Warriors’ are filled with confidence ahead of this showdown after stringing a run of six H2H matches without losing to El Salvador (W3, D3) since a 2-1 defeat in the 2007 Gold Cup. With that said, Trinidad have never outscored El Salvador at the final continental tournament, losing two of their three Gold Cup H2Hs by a narrow one-goal margin (D1).

Meanwhile, El Salvador’s quick-fire double proved enough for a comfortable 2-0 victory over Guatemala in their tournament opener. Before that triumph brought Salvador’s three-match winless streak to a halt (D1, L2), ‘La Selecta’ had drawn a blank in two of their previous three outings, benefit from an own goal in the only game they managed to score in across that sequence. The clean-sheet theme has highlighted El Salvador’s recent fixtures, with each of their last eight matches seeing one or both teams fail to find the back of the net. Ahead of the kick-off, four of their five games have featured under 2.5 total goals, highlighting the potential for a cagey, low-scoring affair. The first-half action could also be in short supply, considering three of El Salvador’s last four games have featured a goalless half-time score.