Goals and Highlights: Mexico 2-3 Colombia in Friendly Match 2022 | 09/28/2022

Goals and Highlights

93′

It’s over, Colombia beats Mexico in the last preparation match.

91′

Vega’s shot, but the ball does not hit Ospina’s goal.

90′

Cambio de Colombia. Durán replaces Díaz.

87′

Mexico weaved their way into the Colombian box, but the defense ended up pushing the ball away.

81′

Protocol is activated due to homophobic shouting at the meeting.

79′

Chavez’s cut and shot, but the ball goes wide of the goal.

72′

Sanchez arrived with danger, but Cuadrado swept in and ended up avoiding the Mexican goal.

68′

Goal, goal, goal for Colombia! Barrios’ volley from outside the box and Ochoa can’t prevent the third.

64′

Vega’s cross, but Colombia ends up preventing the ball from going through.

59′

Changes in Mexico. Erick Sánchez, César Montes, Santiago Giménez and Luis Chávez are substituted for Carlos Rodríguez, Kevin Álvarez, Henry Martin and Andrés Guardado.

51′

Goal, goal, goal for Colombia! Sinisterra finds the ball in the box and sends in a lethal shot to tie the match.

48′

Goal, goal, goal for Colombia! Sinisterra’s shot to Ochoa’s goal is blocked.

46′

Changes in Colombia. Arzate, James and Falcao are replaced by Carrascal, Mojica and Santos.

45′

The second half is played between Mexico and Colombia.

45+3′

At the end of the first half, Mexico beats Colombia two-nil.

42′

Vega arrived with danger, but Ospina keeps the ball.

38′

Close! Cuesta’s header ends up going wide of Ochoa’s goal.

34′

Colombia is looking for the first one.

28′

Goal, goal, goal for Mexico! Arteaga arrived in the box and sent a shot into the goal that ended up going into the back of the net.

22′

Antuna’s diagonal, but the defense ends up clearing the ball and preventing Martin from shooting.

17′

The match is quite hard fought, both teams are pressing to reach the opponent’s goal.

10′

Antuna’s shot, but it goes over the goal.

5′

Goal, goal, goal for Mexico! Alexis Vega sends in a lethal shot to open the scoring.

4′

Penalty for Mexico! Diaz brings down Antuna inside the box and the penalty is called.

0′

Mexico and Colombia kick off the match.

Colombia: LineUp

Ospina, Medina, Sánchez, Cuesta, Fabra, Barrios, Alzate, Cuadrado, James Rodríguez, Luis Díaz, Falcao.

Mexico: LineUp

Ochoa; K.Álvarez, Moreno, Araujo, Arteaga, Gutiérrez, Guardado, Rodríguez; Antuna, Vega, Martín.

To the court

Both teams are already warming up on the field prior to the start of the match.

Present

Colombia is already present at the stadium and will be looking for a good match and an important victory.

Arrived

Mexico, with Martino at the helm, is already at the stadium, tonight they will be looking for a victory.

What a thing!

After the elimination, Colombia wasted no time and chose Lorenzo to coach the team and begin preparations for the next World Cup.

Not convincing

Gerardo Martino continues to move the pieces in order to choose the right players to attend the World Cup at the end of the year.

Watch out for this player

Guillermo Ochoa is the player to pay special attention to, the goalkeeper has six clean sheets in seven games, a number he will be looking to increase.

Last visit

The last time Mexico played in this facility was in 2019, when it defeated Paraguay by four goals to two.

We’re back!

We’re back for a minute-by-minute coverage of the Mexico-Colombia match. We will soon share with you the most relevant information about both teams, as well as the confirmed lineups.

There will be changes

Lorenzo stated that there will be changes in the starting eleven for this match, due to the type of game played by Martino’s team.

Last victory

Mexico last won against Colombia in 2010, where Elías Hernández scored a solitary goal to come out on top.

Colombia Statements

Néstor Lorenzo spoke before the match: “Mexico is a very even team in all its lines, that plays good soccer, that leads from the back. The issue is the difficulty of where we are going to recover and how. They associate well and run down the flanks, these are Mexico’s strengths in the World Cup; this is the information we are giving to the players and what worries me”.

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