One of the main evils of the Mexican National Team is the lack of forcefulness
Gerardo Martinocoach of the Mexican teamadmitted that one of the main evils of his team is the lack of forcefulness, since they have not found a scorer, a similar situation that happened in Russia 2018, when Hirving Lozano was the top scorer for the Tri, but he barely did it with four targets.
Funes Mori received the confidence of Tata to start against Costa Rica and went blank again. imago7
Before the goalless draw against Costa Rica this Sunday, Alexis Vega and Henry Martín are the scorers for El Tri, both with two goals, a figure they reached with their respective goals in last Thursday’s match against Jamaica, with which Vega, in the current tie, has an average to score every 128 minutes, for the 45.5 minutes that have been enough for Martín to send the ball into the net.
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“Yes, it is something that worries us a lot, but more than worrying about it is taking care of it, because the truth is that we reach places on the field where it is very difficult to reach so many times per game. In the last quarter or in the last third is where we have problems, and especially on the sides, but then we fail a lot in what happens inside the area since we do not generate the option, they are not correct, but it is something that we have suffered for a long time, I think that any other team or selection that arrives so many times to those places on the field where we arrive would have to have a much higher goal percentage than the times we arrive at those places”, was the answer he gave ‘Tata’ Martino when questioning him about the lack of forcefulness in his directing.
Heading to Russia 2018, even though Mexicoled by Juan Osorio, was the second best offense of the qualifiers, Hirving Lozano was the top scorer, but with just four goals, same as he did in the 437 minutes he participated, with a goal average every 109.25 minutes.
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Oribe Peralta has been the last goleador reference that the Mexican team in the World Cup qualifiers and curiously, it was on the way to Brazil 2014, the World Cup that El Tri reached through the playoff against New Zealand.
In that tie, Peralta finished with 10 goals in the 889 minutes he was on the field of play, scoring every 88.9 minutes, the best average for a Tri footballer since then.