Jeremy Antonisse scored in stoppage time and Curacao tied Canada 1-1 on Saturday night in Houston to remain in contention to advance to the knockout stage of the Gold Cup.

Nathan Saliba opened the score in the ninth minute, and Antonisse leveled things in the 94th.

The 21-year-old Saliba, playing in his fifth international match, scored for the second game in a row.

Canada, which started the tournament with a 6-0 win over Honduras, has four points and leads Group B. Curacao is second with two points. El Salvador, with one point, faced Honduras in a late match.

The Canadians will close the group stage facing El Salvador on Tuesday, also in Houston.

A win against the Salvadorians would secure first place in the Group B for the Reds and a match in the quarterfinals against the second-best squad from Group A, currently Costa Rica.

Canada is trying to capture its second Gol Cup title despite missing his star winger Alphonso Davies, who tore his right ACL during the CONCACAF Nations League third-place game against the U.S. on March 23.

Curacao could progress to the next round with a win over Honduras on Tuesday.

Canada pulled ahead after Saliba scored with a shot inside the box low across to the far post.

Antonisse scored the equalizer on a breakaway play.

UPS AND DOWNS

As kickoff approached it was clear — the fans weren’t coming. The Club World Cup, soccer’s shiny, new competition, has been billed as the event to breathe new life into the world’s most popular sport.

It began a week ago in the United States, where sports stadiums of monumental capacity and steep tickets prices awaited the rowdy crowds seen at grounds across the world.

But rows and rows of empty seats inside Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday told another story.

“It’s like playing football during lockdown,” observed one fan on social media.

For days, world governing body FIFA didn’t register the attendance for the game between Mamelodi Sundowns and Ulsan on its official website. It took until Friday for a figure of 3,412 to be acknowledged on the site, but by rough count, there were less than 1,000 fans in the stands as the game got underway.

At the other end of the spectrum, more than 80,000 watched Champions League winner Paris Saint-Germain vs. Atletico Madrid at the massive Rose Bowl.

The opening week for the monthlong tournament across the U.S. has seen some wildly fluctuating attendances.

The Mamelodi Sundowns-Ulsan game stands out as the low point so far for FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, who is banking on the Club World Cup becoming one of the most popular and valuable competitions in sport.

So sparse was the crowd that the word “ORLANDO” — spelled out in yellow seats on one of the main stands at Inter&Co Stadium — was almost completely unobstructed. Crowd control stewards stood by the sidelines and monitored vast areas of empty spaces in the 25,500-capacity venue.

The home of MLS team Orlando City — among the smallest stadiums chosen to host games for the tournament — was still massively oversized for the match, even with ticket prices falling to $23.

A group game between largely unheralded teams from South Africa and South Korea was never likely to be a big seller. And storms, which forced kickoff to be delayed by more than an hour, may have led to no-shows.

Still, it was an uncomfortably low turnout and one of three games in the opening week that drew less than 10,000 fans.