Raúl Jiménez comes up clutch from the PK spot 🇲🇽

Mexico are crowned Concacaf Nations League champions for the first time in their history 🏆 pic.twitter.com/JeyzxZ9c4g

— Golazo America (@GolazoAmerica) March 24, 2025

95′ | Double mexican subs➡️ S. Gimenez & J. Gallardo

➡️ J. Angulo & O. Pineda

— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) March 24, 2025

• Jimenez drills the likely game-winner in the 92nd minute! He’s been the best player on the field all night.
• Raul Jimenez lines up to take the shot after a handball inside the box.
• Suspended due to the “p***” chant.
• It will likely resume in a minute or two, but who knows what will happen if fans keep doing the chant.
• … and organizers aren’t doing anything about it.
• Mexico fans have screamed “p***” en masse at least five times tonight. The first one is supposed to trigger an in-stadium warning, and the start of the three-step protocol.
• We just got our first warning after the fifth (and loudest) one, in the 82nd minute.
• Both teams still going for it, with 14 minutes of the 90 to go.
• Both look capable of finding a second goal.
• Announced attendance, by the way, is 68,212. Not a sellout, but it very much filled in for the final.
• Mexico’s best qualities and its clearest flaws have been on display here.
• They play with plenty of passion. They’ve clearly bought in to what Aguirre is preaching. They have two superb strikers, and Edson has been close to his combative best.
• But, they lack attacking structure and creativity. Roberto Alvarado just epitomized that when he let an attack fizzle with a sloppy touch on the right wing. So they haven’t been able to overwhelm Panama.
• Still 1-1, 74th minute.

58′ | Double mexican sub 🇲🇽⬅️ L. Romo & R. Alvarado

➡️L. Chávez & A. Vega

— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) March 24, 2025

• Panama’s midfielder #16 Carlos Harvey and Mexico’s defender #03 Cesar Montes jump to head the ball during the CONCACAF Nations League final football match between Mexico and Panama at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on March 23, 2025. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
• Panama came to play. Took an early punch and never even wobbled. (Also got essentially the exact same penalty that Canada didn’t get three days earlier.)
• Almost no matter how this final ends, Los Canaleros have been the most impressive team this week.
• Should be an excellent second half.
• Panama’s Adalberto Carrasquilla gets the penalty past Luis Malagon to even things up just before halftime.