{"id":484963,"date":"2024-07-06T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T05:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484963"},"modified":"2024-07-06T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T05:18:56","slug":"canada-eliminates-venezuela-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-eliminates-venezuela-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada eliminates Venezuela on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada claimed a 4-3 penalty shootout victory over Venezuela on Friday to reach the Copa America semi-finals for the first time, following a gripping 1-1 draw at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>With the score level after five penalties each in the shootout, Wilker Angel&#8217;s spot-kick was saved by Maxime Crepeau, and Ismael Kone converted the decisive penalty to propel Canada into the semi-finals. Canada, making their Copa America debut, will face Argentina in New Jersey on Tuesday for a chance to play in the July 14 final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WHAT A GAME! \ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<p>CANADA TAKES DOWN VENEZUELA IN A DRAMATIC PENALTY SHOOTOUT TO ADVANCE TO THE SEMIFINALS OF COPA AMERICA 2024! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SggZeudEgu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SggZeudEgu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 theScore (@theScore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theScore\/status\/1809425126141673859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This semi-final clash will be a rematch of the tournament opener, where the defending champions Argentina secured a 2-0 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Canada, who managed just one goal in their three group stage matches, began the quarter-final with unexpected urgency. Their pressure paid off in the 13th minute when Jacob Shaffelburg finished a Jonathan David cross. Shaffelburg celebrated by holding up the jersey of teammate Tajon Buchanan, who suffered a broken leg in training earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela eventually found the equalizer in the 64th minute through Rondon, who spotted Crepeau off his line and executed a brilliant lob over the scrambling goalkeeper. This marked Rondon&#8217;s 44th goal for Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Canada responded well, with substitute Liam Millar having a tight-angle shot saved in the 67th minute, and Tani Oluwaseyi firing two shots over the crossbar within a span of four minutes. The match ended 1-1, setting the stage for the penalty shootout where Canada ultimately triumphed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-WPthLL_Ig?si=ASQrqoM5okTgH9rV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada claimed a 4-3 penalty shootout victory over Venezuela on Friday to reach the Copa America semi-finals for the first time, following a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17452,22265,21744],"news_category":[14236,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17899,22266,21745],"acf":{"announce":"Copa America debutants will face Argentina in the next round","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484966,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484963\/revisions\/484966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484963"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484963"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}