Open this photo in gallery Canadian forward Adonijah Reid poses at the MLS SuperDraft in Los Angeles on Jan. 13, 2017. Neil Davidson/The Canadian Press

Second-half substitute Adonijah Reid scored a tiebreaking goal in the 79th minute as Canada edged Guadeloupe 2-1 on Sunday in its second match of the CONCACAF men’s under-20 championship tournament.

Captain Mathieu Choinière put Canada up 1-0 seven minutes into the game.

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But Luther Archimède scored for Guadeloupe to tie the match in the opening minute of the second half.

The tournament serves as regional qualifier for the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland next year.

Canada opened the event on Thursday with a 4-0 win over Dominica and has six points through two games to sit atop the Group D standings.

Canada has failed to qualify for the past five U-20 World Cups. It last appeared at the tournament in 2007 as the host country, exiting after losing all three preliminary-round matches.

The Canadians qualified in 1979, 1985, 1987, 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2005, with their best showing in 2003 when they lost 2-1 in the quarter-finals to Spain on a golden goal.

The field for the newly expanded CONCACAF U20 tournament is divided into six groups with the six group winners advancing to a second round-robin stage with two groups of three teams. The top two from the two groups will qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup with the two group winners playing for the North and Central America and Caribbean crown.

Canada plays Panama on Tuesday.