It took a solitary goal and they left it late but Mexico are the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup Champions after a hard fought battle with Panama at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Minutes after arriving on the field, substitute Santiago Gimenez became Mexico’s hero with a sensational strike in the eighty-eighth minute.
The match was a bland affair in terms of goal mouth action with few threats created at either end but the decider was one to cherish for Gimenez and Mexico as he got a pass from Orbelin Pineda with his back to goal, turned the defender, drove forward and beat the Los Canaleros keeper with a left-footer to earn Mexico the dramatic 1-nil victory.