Superstar striker Jonathan David powered the Canadian men’s national team to a massive win in their ever-better bid to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Friday, supplying the goal in a 1-0 takedown in front of over 48,000 fans at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.
David’s 57th-minute marker was all Canada needed to surge to the top of the eight-team final round, staying unbeaten in a match that marked the halfway point of World Cup qualifying’s final stage.
Friday’s win sees Canada improve to a 3-4-0 record and 13 points which, as it stood following results later in the day, put the team in third place halfway through the 14-match final round.
The top three teams in “the Oct,” Concacaf’s eight-team final round, will qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with a fourth taking part in an inter-continental playoff. Canada’s men’s team last qualified for a FIFA World Cup in 1986.
Here are your sights and sounds for Friday’s massive tilt in Alberta’s capital.
Fans filing in at Commonwealth Stadium. Petrillo, Jack, and I are up on @onesoccer at 6 PM MT. Sportsnet joins at 6.30. Wheeler and Dunfield in the booth and Jenkins on sideline. A big step on the road to Qatar coming up. #CanMNT pic.twitter.com/7YBDEPtpvB
— Oliver Platt (@plattoli) November 13, 2021
AHHH TAJON NO ?
An overhead attempt, denied by the bar ?#CanMNT ?? | ? TELUS ch. 980 | ? https://t.co/hishXepRT3 pic.twitter.com/vecW0sSRwN
— OneSoccer (@onesoccer) November 13, 2021
GOAL ??
JONATHAN DAVID, cool as you like in front of goal (just like he's done to lead the scoring charts in #Ligue1) and Canada are up 1-0 on the hour-mark!#CanMNT ?? | ? TELUS ch. 980 | ? https://t.co/hishXepRT3 pic.twitter.com/1HW52gGZWg
— OneSoccer (@onesoccer) November 13, 2021
A standing ovation for Edmonton's very own, @AlphonsoDavies. ?#CANMNT | #WCQ pic.twitter.com/tmFcgSTPCV
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) November 13, 2021
POST-GAME ?
It's another 3 POINTS in the bag for Canada! ?@AndiPetrillo, @plattoli, and @KristianJack break it all down ?#CanMNT ?? | ? TELUS ch. 980 | ? https://t.co/hishXepRT3 https://t.co/IitcuNNeSY
— OneSoccer (@onesoccer) November 13, 2021
? "A massive thank you to the Edmonton fans," #CanMNT head coach @coachherdman on the electric atmosphere at Commonwealth Stadium tonight ? pic.twitter.com/2JfoCuaRED
— CanPL (@CPLsoccer) November 13, 2021