Bermuda and Puerto Rico will play their final FIFA 2018 Russia World Cup Qualifying Warm Up match at the National Sports Center.
Bermuda Starting Line-Up: Freddy Hall (Dale Eve 58th), Jaylon Bather, Tyrell Burgess (Quintonio Lima 51st), Roger Lee, Killian Elkinson, Tre Ming, Zeiko Lewis, Damon Ming (Justin Donawa 58th), Reggie Lambe (Jason Lee 73rd), Keishen Bean (Drewonde Bascome 51st), Angelo Simmons (Lejuan Simmons 58th), Puerto Rico Starting Line-Up: Matthew Sanchez, Alberto Cosme, Michael Vazquez (Alvaro Betancourt 84th), Alexis Curet, Deniz Bozkurt (Felix Dawson (64th), Emmanuel Yepez (Javier Fernandez 29th), Hector Lebron (Lemuel Salamo 83rd), Eloy Velez (Joseph Garcia 71st), Marcos, Amaro, Andres Cruz (Joseph Mornon 54th), Felix Dawson.
In the opening minutes Bermuda won the first corner of the game when a Ming cross was pushed away by Sanchez.
Bermuda took the lead in the 10th minute, a long ball sprung Simmons who beat the advancing Sanchez and then slotted the ball into the empty net. In the 21st minute Puerto Rico came close to equalizing, Lebron had a shot from the edge the box after Bather failed to clear. The equalizer came in the 25th minute when Yepez outleaped the Bermuda defense and scored from a header. During the celebration Yepez injured himself.
Both teams in the second half showed effects of a lack of fitness, both coaches making several changes with only a few chances created. Simmons should have given Bermuda the lead, but he miskicked from three yards out after rounding his marker, substitute Lejuan Simmons within minutes of entering the game shot into the side net when a cross would have been better.
The referee brought the game to an end with the match ending 1 – 1.