CONCACAF · Group L
Panama
Squad value $37M · #42 of 48 by price
About Panama
Population 4.3M
- Panama is one of only three carbon-negative countries on Earth — it absorbs more CO₂ than it emits — alongside Bhutan and Suriname.
- When the Isthmus of Panama rose from the sea about three million years ago, it joined the Americas and reshaped the world's oceans and climate.
- Its canal is the shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific that ships from all over the world depend on.
- The roadless jungle of the Darién Gap is the one break in the Pan-American Highway, which otherwise runs from Alaska to Patagonia.
- A single park near the canal, Soberanía, hosts over 525 bird species — a birdwatcher's paradise.
Source: Wikipedia
The Journey
Group L- 1
Toronto · BMO Field
at Ghana ·Jun 17 L 0–1
80 m · 45k · open · 26°C
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Panama 0–1 Ghana
Panama did everything the textbook asks and lost anyway. Sixty-four percent of the ball against Ghana, and then, in the ninety-fifth minute, Christopher Yirenkyi settled it with what was effectively the only meaningful attack of the night. The expected goals finished at a featherweight 0.13 to 0.03 in Panama's favour — a reminder that neither side truly threatened until the one strike that mattered. To control a game this completely and leave with nothing is the cruelest result in the group so far. They deserved more than this, and they know it.
Goals 90' C. Yirenkyi
xG 0.13–0.03 ·Poss 64% ·Shots 3 (1 on target) ·GK saves 0
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Toronto · BMO Field
Croatia ·Jun 23 L 0–1
80 m · 45k · open · 26°C
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Panama 0–1 Croatia
For an hour Panama did the hard part, smothering a more illustrious opponent and giving Croatia almost nothing to work with. Then Ante Budimir found a yard from a set-piece, and a single moment was all this game had in it. The reply never came — one shot, none on target, an expected-goals figure barely off zero tells of a side with no out-ball when they needed one. There is no disgrace in a one-nil to Croatia, defended this stubbornly. But a point was there for the taking, and it slipped on the only lapse.
Goals 54' A. Budimir
xG 0.06–0.05 ·Poss 36% ·Shots 1 (0 on target) ·Corners 0 ·GK saves 1
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New York / NJ · MetLife Stadium
England ·Jun 27 L 0–2
5 m · 83k · open · 29°C
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Full time · The Report An hour of defiance
Panama 0–2 England
For an hour Panama did everything they came to do. Ranked forty-second in the field and giving away a vast gap in pedigree, they sat deep, stayed compact, and frustrated an England side full of expensive talent. Then the quality told, as it so often does: Jude Bellingham's strike just after the hour broke the resistance, and Harry Kane's quick second settled it. An expected-goals line of 1.49 to 0.57 reflects the gulf, but twelve shots and four goalkeeper saves the other way show Panama did not simply sit and admire. Beaten, but far from disgraced.
Goals 62' Jude Bellingham · 67' Harry Kane
xG 0.57–1.49 ·Poss 33% ·Shots 12 (2 on target) ·Corners 3 ·GK saves 4
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Belief
Underwater- 0
- 2.25
- #43
- #42
Belief −2.3 · Merit + Finishing
- +1.7 did the underlying play beat the market
- −4.0 did the scoreboard beat the play — conversion, keeping, luck
xG 0.76–1.57 · deserved 3.96 pts
Form & Shape
5-4-1- LLL
- 0–4
- 0
- 3
Aggregate form via API-Football. Most-used shape: 5-4-1.
Friendship
Friendship 82Friendship 82 = co-starts + club chemistry +5
- 78
- 15
Friendship blends realized national co-starts with a club-chemistry bonus, so a settled XI and a club-spine squad both score high. Near 100 the total eases so the most-settled squads stay separated rather than all tying out. Gold lines trace the spine: teammates who share a club right now.
The squad
Tap a player for their card · the two numbers are Jornata ratings (0–99): pre-tournament capability and live tournament form · values are Jornata estimates.