Canada vs El Salvador: CONCACAF Gold Cup Odds, Prediction
The Canadians maintain first place despite settling for a 1-1 draw with Curacao on Saturday night, and with Tuesday’s other matchup featuring second-place Honduras vs third-place Curacao, the Canadians are already assured of advancing to the knockout stage at this year’s tournament. El Salvador have yet to score while compiling a 0-1-1 win-draw-loss record through their first two Group B matches and must defeat Canada by a wide margin to have any chance of advancing.
Canada leads the way as heavy -450 favourites to win in regular time in the Gold Cup three-way odds while El Salvador lag as distant +1200 underdogs. The odds of Tuesday’s contest ending in a draw after 90 minutes are pegged at +500 and -185 odds favour the total going OVER 2.5.
Canada vs El Salvador Betting Analysis
Tuesday’s matchup marks the first meeting between these national sides since they clashed in FIFA World Cup qualifying back in February 2022. Canada earned a 2-0 victory in that contest to improve to a 3-0-1 in their past four meetings across all competitions.
Overall, Canada has surrendered just one total goal to El Salvador over their past eight dates and have gone undefeated in their past six matches against Los Cuscatlecos in major international tournaments.
Despite their offensive letdown in Saturday’s draw with Curacao, Canada have seen their stock rise on the Gold Cup championship futures, where they continue to trail Mexico and the United States as a slightly improved +500 bet.
With that 1-1 draw, Canada failed to clinch the top of the table. But with the Canadians holding a one-point edge on Honduras and a two-point cushion on Curacao going into their group stage finale, Canada has assured themselves of at least a second-place group stage finish.
Conversely, El Salvador have scored more than one goal just while posting just one win in seven matches in all competitions this year. The Salvadorans also enter Tuesday’s action riding a seven-match winless streak in Gold Cup play.
Canada
Canada endured a big letdown in Saturday’s date with Curacao after running up the score in a tournament-opening 6-0 rout of Honduras, leaving many Gold Cup betting fans wondering which edition of the national team will show up on Tuesday night.
Indeed, they let their chance slip away by allowing the tying marker in added time. Nathan Saliba opened the scoring in the ninth minute with his second goal of the tournament and the CF Montreal star is a lucrative +360 bet on the Gold Cup player props to score again on Tuesday.
Tajon Buchanan provided the spark with a pair of goals in the squad’s 6-0 rout, and in addition to scoring three times in his past four matches overall, Buchanan also found the mark the last time Canada played El Salvador three years ago.
Jonathan David has also enjoyed success when facing the Salvadorans, scoring in each of their past two meetings and is a solid +333 bet to score first in a winning effort by Canada.
El Salvador
While the El Salvador roster largely features players from domestic clubs, they do have a few players with big league experience including Brayan Gil (FC Baltika, Russia), Enrico Duenas (Top Oss, the Netherlands) and Harold Osorio (Chicago Fire, MLS). Gil has emerged as the top performer for this squad, potting two goals in two appearances during the last round of World Cup qualifying earlier this month.
However, scoring has otherwise come at a premium for this squad, which has mustered just two total shots on target through their first two group stage matches and have been outscored by a combined 10-5 margin while going 0-3-4 in their past 10 tournament matches.
Prediction: Canada 3, El Salvador 0
