Jamaica 2-0 El Salvador: Javon East Scores Twice as Reggae Boyz Beat 10-Man La Selecta

Q: What was the final score and who scored?

Jamaica won 2-0, and Javon East scored both goals. The first came in the 39th minute, when East got on the end of a ball into the box from Miguel Freckleton and finished from close range. The second arrived in the 64th minute: substitute Jahmarie Nolan won the ball inside the box and played East in, and he finished first time. East, who plays his club football in Israel for Hapoel Be’er Sheva, was also the player Clavel fouled in the sending-off. Kickoff at Estadio Cuscatlan was 8 p.m. local time, which was 10 p.m. ET.

By Kimi · October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Jamaica 2-0 El Salvador: Javon East Scores Twice as Reggae Boyz Beat 10-Man La Selecta

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Key takeaways

🔑 Jamaica beat El Salvador 2-0 at Estadio Cuscatlan in San Salvador on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, in Concacaf Nations League League A Group B. Javon East scored both goals, in the 39th and 64th minutes, against a home side that had been down to ten men since early in the match.
El Salvador defender Rudy Clavel was shown a straight red card for a late, sliding challenge from behind on East inside the first 20 minutes, at 0-0. Most match logs put it at the 20th minute, though one Salvadoran outlet had it at the 18th. The hosts played about 70 minutes a man short.
Jamaica finished with about two-thirds of the possession and a 13-4 edge in shots, with four shots on target to El Salvador’s one, according to published match statistics. Substitute Jahmarie Nolan won the ball in the box and set up East’s second goal, a first-time finish.
Coach Hernan Dario Gomez said the early red card undid El Salvador’s plan and criticized the referee, according to Salvadoran press reports. Salvadoran press also described the loss as complicating the team’s place in League A, and earlier reports said the federation kept Gomez after the 6-0 loss at Guatemala on Sept. 28.
The win lifts Jamaica to six points, second in the six-team Group B and one point behind Suriname. El Salvador is last in the published table on three points, level with Honduras and Martinique, with a goal difference of minus 6. All standings are as of the end of the Oct. 2 matches.
Jamaica’s group schedule ends with a trip to Honduras on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, according to Jamaican press and the published fixture list; El Salvador’s last group game is away to Martinique. This recap covers only the Oct. 2 result. No betting odds, point spreads or win probabilities are used on this page.

Jamaica beat 10-man El Salvador 2-0 in San Salvador on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, with Javon East scoring in the 39th and 64th minutes of a Concacaf Nations League League A Group B match. El Salvador (La Selecta) defender Rudy Clavel was sent off inside the first 20 minutes, and the Reggae Boyz made the extra man count on either side of halftime. It was the third group game for both teams.

What was the final score and who scored?

Jamaica won 2-0, and Javon East scored both goals. The first came in the 39th minute, when East got on the end of a ball into the box from Miguel Freckleton and finished from close range. The second arrived in the 64th minute: substitute Jahmarie Nolan won the ball inside the box and played East in, and he finished first time. East, who plays his club football in Israel for Hapoel Be’er Sheva, was also the player Clavel fouled in the sending-off. Kickoff at Estadio Cuscatlan was 8 p.m. local time, which was 10 p.m. ET.

What happened with the red card?

El Salvador’s Rudy Clavel was shown a straight red card inside the first 20 minutes for a late sliding challenge from behind on Javon East, with the match still scoreless. Most match logs and reports put the dismissal at the 20th minute, though one Salvadoran outlet reported the 18th. A Mexican referee made the call, according to Salvadoran press reports. El Salvador then played with 10 men for about 70 minutes. Coach Hernan “Bolillo” Gomez responded by taking off Rafael Tejada and sending on Julio Sibrian before the half-hour mark.

How did El Salvador’s coach react?

Coach Hernan Dario Gomez said the early red card undid El Salvador’s plan and criticized the referee’s decision, according to Salvadoran press reports. He said the team could not keep the ball once it was a player down, and he defended his players’ effort. Salvadoran press also described the loss as complicating the team’s place in League A and reported fan frustration; those are press framings, not official statements. After El Salvador’s 6-0 loss at Guatemala on Sept. 28, press reports said the federation kept Gomez in charge, and no change had been reported as of Oct. 3.

How did the two teams compare on the stats?

Jamaica dominated the ball and the shot count, with about 66% possession and a 13-4 edge in shots, according to published match statistics.

Stat	Jamaica	El Salvador
Possession	66%	34%
Shots	13	4
On target	4	1
Corners	5	1
Fouls	15	9

Those figures matched across two match-data providers. They also show one red card for El Salvador and no yellows, against one yellow for Jamaica.

Where does Group B stand after the result?

Jamaica now has six points and sits second in the six-team Group B, one point behind Suriname, while El Salvador is last on three points. The table below is as of the end of the Oct. 2 matches. The other two results that day were Suriname 0-0 Guatemala and Martinique 2-1 Honduras.

Team	W-D-L	GD	Pts
Suriname	2-1-0	+2	7
Jamaica	2-0-1	+2	6
Guatemala	1-1-1	+5	4
Honduras	1-0-2	-1	3
Martinique	1-0-2	-2	3
El Salvador	1-0-2	-6	3

Honduras, Martinique and El Salvador are level on three points, with El Salvador last in the published table on a goal difference of minus 6. We recomputed these totals from every group result, and they match two published tables.

How did each side get to this game?

Jamaica came in with one win and one loss from its first two group games, while El Salvador had also split its first two. Jamaica beat Guatemala 3-2 in Kingston on Sept. 25, then lost 1-0 at home to Honduras on Sept. 28. Jamaican press described that as Jamaica’s first defeat to Honduras in 13 years. El Salvador beat Martinique 3-1 on Sept. 25 and then lost 6-0 at Guatemala on Sept. 28. Rudolph Speid is Jamaica’s head coach.

What comes next for both teams?

Jamaica’s last group game is away at Honduras on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, and El Salvador’s last group game is away at Martinique, according to Jamaican and Salvadoran press and the published fixture list. It will be a second meeting with Honduras for Jamaica after the 1-0 loss in Kingston on Sept. 28. This page does not preview those games, and the table above will change once they are played. For U.S. viewers, pre-match listings showed the Oct. 2 game on FS2 in English and ViX in Spanish, and the network’s own schedule lists FS2 for the Oct. 5 Honduras game as well.

For now, the Oct. 2 result is simple: a first-half red card, a Javon East brace and a 2-0 Jamaica win in San Salvador. The standings above reflect only results through Oct. 2.

How we verified this

Match facts. The final score, both scorers with their minutes, and the red card were checked against roughly ten independent reports and data pages by type: a Jamaican national-daily match report, two match-data providers, a U.S. sports network’s scoreboard, and Salvadoran, Honduran and wider Latin American press. All agree on 2-0, Javon East at 39’ and 64’, and a red card for El Salvador’s Rudy Clavel. Conflicting figures. The red-card minute is 20’ in nearly every match log and report, but 18’ in one Salvadoran outlet’s headline, so we wrote “inside the first 20 minutes.” That same outlet had East’s second goal at 63’ against 64’ everywhere else; we followed 64’. Where a single page’s data conflicted with every other source (an extra Jamaican scorer, a card labeled yellow), we followed the consensus. Statistics. Possession, shots, shots on target, corners and fouls come from two match-data providers whose figures matched. They are provider data, not an official Concacaf match sheet, which we could not retrieve. Left out on purpose. Published lineups conflicted with each other (and some omitted the scorer), and attendance was not reliably reported, so neither is printed. We did not describe the competition’s qualification or relegation rules because we could not confirm them against Concacaf’s own regulations. Any talk of relegation risk or the coach’s future is attributed to press reports, not official statements. Standings. Recomputed from every Group B result and matched against two published tables, as of the end of the Oct. 2 matches. They change once the Oct. 5 games are played. Schedule and TV. Jamaica’s Oct. 5 game at Honduras is reported by Jamaican press and a published fixture list. El Salvador’s final game at Martinique comes from Salvadoran press, and we could not confirm its date. U.S. channels (FS2 in English, ViX in Spanish) come from pre-match broadcast listings, not a post-match record. Still moving. The group table, the Oct. 5 fixtures and the status of El Salvador’s coach were current as of Oct. 3, 2026 (ET) and go stale after the Oct. 5 games. No betting content. No betting odds, spreads, or win-probability models appear anywhere on this page.