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Estadio Cementos Progreso and the home crowd
How to watch Guatemala vs Canada, and when
The match starts at 8:00 p.m. in Guatemala City, 9:00 p.m. ET, 6:00 p.m. PT and 02:00 GMT (03:00 in Madrid).
Television rights vary by country, so local listings are the best guide, and VAVEL's live blog covers the full match for everyone else.
Confirmed lineups arrive about an hour before kickoff, followed by goals, cards and substitutions as they happen and the state of the tie at the final whistle.
Guatemala: 6-0 over El Salvador, then two games without a goal against
Rewind a few weeks and it was a different Guatemala. They lost 3-0 at Ecuador and 3-2 at Jamaica. Since then they have thrashed El Salvador 6-0, drawn 0-0 at Suriname and beaten Suriname 1-0 in their latest game.
Nine goals for, six against across the five, and nothing conceded in the last three. Both of the games listed as home fixtures were wins.
Going from three conceded a night to none? That's the first thing we'll check when the lineups drop.
The 3-2 defeat at Jamaica is the only game in the sample where Guatemala scored more than once and still lost, and the 6-0 win accounts for two thirds of their goals across the five matches.
Canada: tight scorelines against big opponents
Canada's last five read like a run of one-goal games. They won 1-0 at South Africa, lost 3-0 to Morocco, beat Chile 1-0, beat Peru 2-0 and then lost 1-0 at the United States.
Four goals scored, four conceded, and three of the five results decided by a single goal, so Canada sit at exactly zero goal difference. The Morocco match is the only heavy defeat on the list, and it accounts for three of the four goals they let in.
No game in that stretch saw Canada score more than twice.
Canada don't score much, but they do shut teams out: they kept a clean sheet against South Africa, Chile and Peru, three of the five games, and each of those was a win.
Guatemala City hosts the first leg against Canada
Good evening from Guatemala City. This is VAVEL's live blog of Guatemala vs Canada, the opening leg of a Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal at Estadio Cementos Progreso. The ball rolls at 8:00 p.m. local time, 9:00 p.m. on the US East Coast and 03:00 on Saturday in Madrid.
Guatemala have gone win, draw, win in their last three. Canada arrive after beating Peru 2-0 and then losing 1-0 at the United States. The market makes the visitors a -165 favorite and sets the total at 2.5 goals.
Late kickoff, big stakes. We're on it from the first whistle, and we'll keep the tie updated right through to the final minute. Stay close, because the first leg of a quarterfinal rarely feels like a formality.
The match is played at Estadio Cementos Progreso in Guatemala City, the national team's main stadium. Kickoff at 8:00 p.m. means a night game in Central America and the early hours of Saturday in Madrid.
Guatemala have not conceded in their last three matches, and that run includes two home wins, 6-0 over El Salvador and 1-0 over Suriname.
Canada have played twice away in their last five: a 1-0 win at South Africa and a 1-0 loss at the United States.
The home side also has the numbers on the shot count: Rubin's 11 attempts are the highest figure listed for either team in this match.