LOS ANGELES – Mexico offered its best 45 minutes against the most solid opponent in the Octagonal Final of the Concacaf. Stumbling, puffing, but remains the leader, with the arithmetic generosity of winning seven points out of nine possible.
1-1, the denouement. Without a doubt, many more than the Tri deserved for what was done in the first half, but much less than what the Tri deserved for what was done in the second half.
It would seem that Mexico found his best team available for the tie, at the expense of the triple match in October, he can count on Raul Jimenez and with Hirving lozano. But, the team that imposed control in the second half of the match, there is not much to move.
Because yes, because the Mexican team it escaped him from the grave in which he seemed to have put it Panama in the first half of the game. And because he did it with the additions of Andrew Saved, from Sebastian Cordova and Henry Martin.
Something was clear to everyone: Mexico it does have trustworthy players, but what they are not trustworthy are the suspicious, whimsical and suspicious selections of players that it makes Gerardo Martino. So don’t move him anymore, Tata!
How he suffered Mexico in the first half. Sterile in front, disorderly in the midfield, and on the attack, without the slightest idea of daring and footballing conception.
Panama it was a genuine Red tide in the first half. Unfortunately for him, the injuries ended up eroding his performance, since the departure of Adalberto Carrasquilla until the halftime relays of Alberto quintero and Rolando Blackburn.
Jonathan dos Santos was the drag in the first half. Dragged double obligations to Luis Romo already Carlos Rodriguez. And in front, Funes mori, scared, nervous, and facilitating the brand of Panamanians, while Tecatito Corona He only gave away court games, the kind that suck up fools.
And in that way Mexico ended up being a small-time sparring, overwhelmed by the vehemence, speed and vertigo of movements of the Panamanians, especially at the extremes, and generating by interior lanes in that confusion that caused Jonathan.
Literally, the Red tide was beginning to stifle the desperate resistance of the Tricolor. Faced with the scarlet tsunami, the Tri He fumbled, he kicked, but he was not able to organize himself on the court.
In the midst of the usual drowsiness of Jorge Sanchez, Mexico sees one of the strongest links in his chain break: Guillermo Ochoa. Low center to the right. The goalkeeper reaches down, but neither holds nor moves the ball away, but hands it generously at the feet of Blackburn. 1-0.
The Mexican hardships could have been more in the first half, but Panama He accused precipitation, anxiety, when he saw the frequency with which he reached the periphery of the area of Guillermo Ochoa, but without being efficient on the last play.
For the second half, two key factors in the game are combined, which would end up rising from the grave to the Tri, and quenching the fury of Panama.
1.- TATA ATINATED …
While he was already bouncing in a frenzy the #Out Tata, the changes of Mexico give lightness, order and daring to Mexico. In 15 minutes, Martin made three plays, for the benefit of the second line of attack, which he has not been able to do Funes mori in the three dates of the Octagonal.
In addition, the comfort, the confidence, the daring with which he performed Luis Romo, in immediate partnerships with Cordova and Saved, the Mexican team immediately placed him in possession and firing squad.
Ah, but Manotas appeared! With three spectacular saves, the goalkeeper Mejia He resembled an arachnid superhero, blocking the cardinal points of his goal. Therefore, everything was in the frugal 1-1.
2.- CHANNEL DESTINATION …
Unexplained injuries in three key players make the rumbera and festiva skeleton disarranged Panama. Without Carrasquilla, Quintero and Blackburn, the Red tide he was left in a silent hangover.
In the second half, not only was he no longer in control of the Mexican team, but he had lost the ball, and with desperation and stoicism he was rebuilding from the bottom.
The liveliness, the cunning, the offensive readiness and in the recovery of the canaleros, disappeared, in that aforementioned mixture: the Panamanian injuries and the tricolor incrustations.
Fortunately, Manotas appeared, I insist, because shots from Cordova, blunt and Martin, forced him to circus trips, worthy of Cirque du Soleil.
And the metamorphosis of Tri, it would have an impact on the scoreboard. Because he brought the jug of statistics to the well of doom so many times that he deserved the award.
Power, insistence, clarity, presence of area, and constant movements of a transformed Mexico to emotionally and positionally scatter Panama, generated the tie, with a shot of Tecatito Corona, who, needless to say, went from the useless rococo of the first half, to the anger and offensive poison in the second half, when he understood that, finally, he was already surrounded by better footballers.
They enter at the end, Uriel antuna, who weighed little, and Rodolfo Pizarro, who ratified that his thing, but, really, his thing, is to worry about the MLS before he ends up in exile in the USL, where he could soon meet with Giovani dos santos.
A) Yes, Mexico rescues a tie against the best possible opponent in the Concacaf, with this Panama from Thomas Christiansen, who continues to be generous, generous and wasteful, trying to make the best football in this Conkakafkian conclave.
In October, you should receive Canada, already with the rostrum open, and in the same way to Honduras, at the expense of #The Scream Don’t break in like spoilers. I would close the FIFA date with a very uncomfortable encerrona before The Savior.
And I insist: Don’t move him anymore, Tata martino!
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