By DPA
San Franciso : The US won the Concacaf Gold Cup Sunday in a thrilling game that saw them beat Mexico 2-1.
The win continued the Americans' dominating run over their southern neighbours and more importantly guaranteed the US team a spot in the 2009 Confederations Cup in South Africa – a key acclimatization tournament before the 2010 World Cup.
Mexico opened the scoring through tricky right-winger Andres Guadardo, before the US turned it around with second half goals from Landon Donovan and young midfielder Benny Feilhaber.
After the result, the position of Mexican coach Hugo Sanchez could be in danger.
Just before the interval, Mexico's man of the match Castillo got through the US defence and slid the ball across goal where Guadardo was waiting to smash it into the roof of the net.
The equalizer came in the 60th minute when Brian Ching turned Jose Jonny Magallon in the area and was brought down. Donovan slammed the resultant penalty his record-tying 34th international goal.
The 72nd minute match-winner was worthy of winning any tournament. A corner was knocked out by the Mexico defence to the edge of the box where midfielder Benny Feilhaber was waiting to unleash a thunderous volley into the top right corner.