The Mexican National Team showed improvement against one of the favorites to win the Copa América 2024.
Mexico knew how to overcome a two-goal deficit against Brazilbut ended up losing with a last-minute goal. Jaime Lozanofrom the previous one, reported that the Tricolor would use these games to observe players and have the best possible team for the Copa America 2024.
“Go back to Brazil 2-0, few teams do it, reach Brazil in the last minutes and they score a goal on the last play, it leaves you dissatisfied,” he commented. Jaime Lozanocoach Mexico.
Below we present some lessons that defeat leaves for the Mexican team.
Mexico has problems in the central defense
Since the match against Uruguay, Mexico He has shown that his weak point is the central defense. Against Marcelo Bielsa’s team, the Uruguayan players walked into the area on more than one occasion and that story was repeated against Brazil.
The example is the goal that meant the defeat, Endrick, 17 years old. The Real Madrid player scored with a header, in the 96th minute, without any mark, since Johan Vásquez and Edson Álvarez, enabled as a center back, were left out of the play.
Vega, Pineda and Antuna the best of the team
The ephemeral comeback of Mexico against Brazil, in large part, was due to the contribution of Alexis Vega and Orbelín Pineda, added to Uriel Antuna. These three players are the ones who generate the most imbalance and caused the most dangerous plays on the attack for Mexico.
With them in the field, Mexico He approached Alisson Becker’s goal and the two goals were scored that allowed us to dream, for four minutes, of a tie. In the end, defensive errors cost them the defeat.
“Alexis, what can I tell you, he is one of the top players in the league. He is a player who, unfortunately, because his personal life has stopped him, has prevented him from playing abroad, Alexis will always put himself at the level of the game. If the game has a significant degree of difficulty, he always knows how to overcome it,” he commented. Jaime Lozanocoach Mexicoafter the game against Brazil.
Martínez will fight for a place against Santi Giménez
Santi Giménez is designated as the team’s starting center forward. Jaime Lozano. Anonymous is Guillermo Martínez, Pumas attacker, who has two Liga MX tournaments among the best Mexican scorers and was present against Brazil.
The tall Mexican attacker came on as a replacement, for Santi Giménez, and in his first opportunity he finished off with a header, which caused a rebound from Alisson Becker, and the same Pumas player took the opportunity to make it 2-2 with a powerful shot.
Memote, as they call the attacker, will be good competition for Santi GIménez.
There are still doubts in the Tricolor goal
With the departure of Luis Ángel Malagón, the starting position of the Mexican team Julio González inherited it. The Pumas goalkeeper could barely do anything in the goals of Brazil and he had a good save against Vinicius. He will have his trial by fire in the America Cupsince both Carlos Acevedo and Raúl Rangel are considered substitutes.
Malagón, who had the lead for the starting position, is out for four weeks due to a muscle injury and misses the America Cup.
