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What a boring game. If you fell asleep, good for you. If you were unfortunate like me and watched the whole thing…that’s a good part of the day that could have been more productive. Watching the grass grow was about as exciting as this 0-0 snoozefest between Mexico and the Guatemala.

Mexico: Jesus Corona; Efrain Juarez, Edgar Dueñas, Juan Carlos Valenzuela, Fausto Pinto (Israel Martinez); Alberto Medina, Israel Castro, Luis Miguel Noriega (Carlos Esquivel), Jose Maria Cardenas (Carlos Vela); Omar Bravo (Miguel Sabah), Omar Arellano (Pablo Barrera).

Guatemala: Ricardo Trigueño; Carlos Gallardo, Yony Wilson-Flores, Luis Rodriguez, Gustavo Cabrera; Fredy Thompson, Luis Bradley, Mynor Davila (Edgar Chinchilla), Miguel Fernandez, Jose Manuel Contreras (Cristian Noriega); Transito Montepeque (Selvin Joel Motta).

There was a period in the second half where Medina looked very dangerous and a Mexico goal looked like it was coming. Besides that, nothing.

Guatemala also had a legit claim for a penalty, but it was denied and they had a man sent off leaving them only with 10.

Overall, the anticipated debut of ‘Chuy’ Corona was good. He had a great moment where he came out and denied a player on a sure goal, but besides that he could have gone off and done something else. While at least this wasn’t a loss, I’m worried for upcoming games. That one play helped Corona’s cause in being #1, but more action for him would have perhaps helped.

Of course, this was a sort of makeshift line-up, not because anyone was injured, but because Aguirre was looking to experiment. There are some players that looked OK, but I don’t think this combination works very well.