Match Report
1 points and 5 places separated them: Jamaica 6th with 11, El Salvador 1st with 10. Recent form told a different story for El Salvador: only 24th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 1st. Against a league average of 1.46 goals per team per game, Jamaica ran at 0.86 scored and 1.57 conceded, El Salvador at 3.25 and 0.25.
Jamaica entered with three losses in a row.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 2 Jamaica wins, 1 for El Salvador, 2 draws, at 2.2 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 20% of those meetings. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 20% of the meetings went over two goals.
Independence Park, capacity 5,000, hosted the game. El Salvador led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 1-1 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Jamaica: Andre Gray (72') · El Salvador: Eriq Zavaleta (21')
Key stats
Possession: Jamaica 52% · El Salvador 48% · On target: 5-4 · Corners: 7-5