Honduras suffers but achieves an agonizing draw against Qatar, the guest of the Gold Cup [Videos]

The Honduran team had a late reaction to achieve a long-suffering 1-1 draw against their similar team from Qatar, a guest in the Gold Cup, which helped them to rescue an important point on the second day of the tournament and stay in contention to lead Group B.

The Honduran team once again revealed its lack of play at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where it was losing until the last minute when Alberth Elis, in added time, appeared to score the goal of equality and become in the savior of his team.

The match began with the Central American team asserting its position as a continental home, generating attack after attack in the first six minutes, but without having the necessary effectiveness to get ahead on the scoreboard.

For their part, Qatar waited in the background, defending themselves as best they could until at minute 7 they went on the counter and showed good aim to score the first goal of the match through Tameen Al Abdullah, who finished off with a header after a cross that It came to him due to an error by the Honduran defense.

But the catrachos did not give up and kept to the initial plan, generating constant attacks led by Alberth Elis, Jerry Bengtson and Alexander López, who sought to tie the score immediately, although without luck.

As if the result against them was not enough, Honduras had to make a forced change due to the injury of Luis Vega, who was replaced by Devron García.

But this did not serve to affect the Central Americans who showed great will and desire to change the result, generating attacks that failed to harm some Qataris who also tried to generate several counterattacks but were frustrated by a good defense.

Finally, the impetus and commitment to their team gave results to the Honduran players who managed to tie at the last minute to stay alive in the group B classification in this edition of the Gold Cup.

It should be remembered that the catrachos debuted with a 4-0 defeat against Mexico in a match where the defense was completely destroyed by the astecas.

With this draw between Honduras and Qatar, both teams remain hopeful and have the possibility of advancing to the second phase of the Gold Cup.

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