Mexico fails to attract towards Ecuador and is out of Copa America

Mexico Metropolis. As within the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Mexico was eradicated from the Copa América within the group stage. The 0-0 draw with Ecuador, on the College of Phoenix stadium, brought on a brand new collapse within the venture in direction of 2026 led by coach Jaime Lozano. If the outcomes mark the course of a course of, now Jimmy’s place appears to haven’t any proprietor.

“The objective we’ve got set is to succeed in at the very least the semi-finals,” stated the president of the Mexican Soccer Federation, Ivar Sisniega, in February. The final time that occurred was in Venezuela 2007, when the tricolor workforce completed third. This 12 months, the elimination got here in simply three video games.

With Venezuela already certified in Group B, the one means it may advance to the quarterfinals towards champion Argentina was to win. An obligation that solely accelerated its collapse.

As in these outdated nightmares from different World Cups, Lozano tried one thing new with out too many certainties: as a substitute of kneading the ball with Uriel Antuna, he most popular to herald César Huerta, ready for one thing to occur and for a niche to open up. El Chino, removed from the extent he as soon as reached with Pumas within the Liga MX, tried to make a distinction together with his pace, however he made extra complaints to the Guatemalan referee Mario Escobar than he did any harmful actions in Alexander Domínguez’s space.

Questioned for his lack of goalscoring, Santiago Giménez made an additional effort, extra out of will than out of confidence in his coach. With a long-distance shot from Colombian-Mexican Julián Quiñones, the Feyenoord striker hit the publish after greater than 65 minutes with none readability in entrance of objective.

On July 17, he’ll full a 12 months with out scoring for the nationwide workforce for the reason that Gold Cup, counting pleasant matches, the Concacaf Nations League and the Copa América.

To be able to keep away from reaching the vital level of the clock as quickly as attainable, simply when the cry of “Sure we will, sure we will!” started to resound within the stands, Lozano did what his critics had been asking for: modify the inflexible tactical scheme of his matches. Jimmy’s blow on the scoreboard generated a small hope with Giménez and Quiñones as references, though this was diluted within the ultimate stretch amid errors and a local weather of nerves.

Identical to within the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Mexico stated goodbye to the Copa América with out making it previous the group stage. After shedding to Venezuela (0-1) and beating Jamaica (1-0), the nationwide workforce added 4 factors out of 9 and was behind Ecuador on objective distinction (4) and much from the chief Vinotinto (9).

Out of anger and frustration, the Mexican public attacked the Ecuadorian goalkeeper with discriminatory chants, even after the referee overturned a penalty awarded in stoppage time by the VAR.