La Opinión Hoy: Mexico fought until the last minute, but could not against England
The Mexican team is eliminated with a bittersweet feeling, between pride for its combativeness and frustration for its lack of resources.
Mexico could not consolidate the football superiority that it showed during most of the 101 minutes that were played last night at the Mexico City stadium. Three moments of lack of concentration were enough for England to assert their hierarchy and end up winning 3-2, with which the Aztec squad saw its World Cup dream painfully come to an end.
The three lions team will travel to Miami to face the surprising Norway, which previously achieved a historic result by eliminating Brazil by two goals to one. Ricardo López Juárez and Ricardo Sánchez Luna were present at the legendary Azteca Stadium and here they share their impressions of the match.
"Above all, the shortcomings that the Mexican team has come to light. They had covered them up very well with the results and with this streak of victories, but today against an elite and heavier team such as the England team they went out to reduce those details, those 10 cents for which we still do not reach the weight unfortunately," said Ricardo Sánchez Luna.
Ricardo López Juárez added that "it had been warned that, to advance against England, Mexico had to play not the same as against Ecuador, but better. The reality is that Mexico made mistakes and that turned into goals for the British team, which, by the way, started the game very comfortable and that generates a bit of concern, namesake, because against Ecuador Mexico came out to devour Ecuador put pressure on them and the Ecuadorians never got up from that. England, on the other hand, very comfortable in the first quarter of the game."
"Yes, Thomas Tuchel, the coach of the English team, warned that the first 15 to 20 minutes were going to be the most difficult because he thought that Mexico was going to come out with the same intensity to devour, to suffocate the English team that also had the handicap of height. However, Aguirre, a strange decision, took the team back because Mexico was waiting in its midfield, gave the ball to the English team and from there tried to counterattack. And unfortunately, when the The Mexican team got hold of the ball and was beginning to put pressure, that unfortunate play came in which the ball was lost in an exit by the English team. Declan Rice dragged the ball, gave it to the right wing, Bukayo, took it, took Jesús Gallardo with speed and put in a very good cross that Jude Bellingham, taking advantage of the fact that the other side was not going down, comfortably headed it in and that was where history began to be written with the first goal for the English", added Ricardo Sánchez Luna.

