Mexico 1 Brasil 3

September 13th, 2007 | By: Kevin Zelaya | 6 Comments »

After Mexico´s first gol by Cacho from a brillant Guardado pass, my ecstasy lasted less than a minute. Then someone put Mexico in self-destruct mode and the meltdown began. Mexico sat back on a corner, got lazy and forgot to cover Kleber than bang 1 to 1 into halftime.

In the second half Mexico dominated the field and owned the ball for the first 20 minutes but a bad clearance from Rafa Marquez (or an accidental pass to Kaka) killed all the momentum. I´ll give Hugo some credit, he brought in Giovani and Vela right when Mexico needed an offensive spark and was controlling ball possesion. Nery Castillo looked like a ghost in the second half. Save a few laserbeam-like passes from Ronnie which such have resulted in goals, I wasn´t impressed by Brazil. They did what they always do, never stop attacking and jump on mistakes. Ochoa was a beast, he blocked some point-blank rockets, without him the game could have been a blowout!

Tags: Brasil, Kaka, Marquez, Mexico, Ochoa, Ronaldinho

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By Ruben | September 13th, 2007 at 5:12 pm

What took so long to open this forum? I was hoping this morning that it was going to be posted. Maybe this is the reason why not many people are interested to chat in this room anymore. Lets make it happened and lets all start talking about our players and our national team.

By Ruben | September 13th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

All I can say is that Brazil play very well and they were very effective and efficient with the ball makin no mistakes. But on the other hand, Mexico started with many young lads and most of them average 22 years of age. I am not making any excuses, Brazil played fairly and deserved to win. but what I am trying to say is that we needed to take risk on the young lads because they are the future for the next world cup, and I am very impressed that way they play Brazil, imgained in the next two years how good they are going to be, when most of Brazilian players are average 25 years of age and who knows if most of them are going to make it in the next world cup.

By Ruben | September 13th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I am beginning to hate the way Neri Castillo play. He is a key player and could make a difference, but damned, he is just to greedy with the ball, now I don’t know if he is trying to be the next Mexican Pele or what, but he thinks that he is the one that is going to make a difference for Mexico. Well maybe he could be a big difference compared to most of our Mexican players but so is Giovanni Dos Santos, Cesar Villaluz, Omar Esparza, and Carlos Vela but Neri, all I can say about Neri is that this boy is just too greedy. If Neri does not learn how to pass the ball he will start having problems with his teammates.

Hey guys, I heard that Pachuca had a 15 year old kid that was playing against Cruz Azul on the last game. I am very happy for Pachuca because eventhough they are the oldest team in Mexico they are beginning to win a lot of tournaments and recently championships and set an example for most the Mexican leagues, having the best Directive ever in history, accumulating a lot of wealth within their organization, and set up an example of their infrastructure. I remember 15 years ago what an embarrassment it was. Although I root for Chivas, I am also beginning to root for Pachuca as our role model. Vivas los Tuzos

By Ruben | September 14th, 2007 at 8:11 pm

Does anyone in this blog knows any updates of Memo Ochoa possibly leaving to Europe any soon?

Maybe Correa, Cacho, or even Villaluz.

By Luis | September 15th, 2007 at 2:13 am

I believe Mexico would have fared better if the manager had started Dos Santos, Vela, and Castillo together. This would have provided the offensive punch Mexico was clearly missing.

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