After a dizzying win over Germany in the opener, some had El Tri going far in the World Cup. But familiar problems have resurfaced
Before you play a fifth game, you have to get to a fourth game. Ideally, then, you don’t want to implode in your third game …
For six successive World Cups, Mexico have been eliminated in the last 16, and now, thanks to South Korea, they will get a chance at reaching the quarter-finals, something that has become a holy grail in Mexican football. They did their best to get in their own way however, and by the time they collapsed to the turf against Sweden they were truly grateful that their own calamitous meltdown had been matched by an even more bizarre one from the reigning world champions, Germany.
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