Mexico – Guatemala: Raúl scores again, but El Tri doesn’t play anything and barely beats Guatemala by the minimum

Cith a field full of new names, the Mexican National Team faced its counterpart from Guatemala in a friendly match at the stadium known as ‘Kraken‘ of Mazatlan Sinaloa.

El Tri went out with Malagon in goal, and set up a heavily populated defensive line with Kevin Alvarez, Nestor Araujo, Israel Reyes, Alan Cervantes, Victor Guzman; Roberto Alvarado, Erick Sanchez, Charly Rodriguez in the half court, and Ozziel Herrera y Raul Jimenez forward.

The ‘chapín’ team directed by the Mexican Luis Fernando Tena It was not enough of a rival for the tricolor, although at times it showed signs of standing up to those led by Diego Cocca.

It was until the minute 12 when the ‘Tri’ gave his first warning to the chapín goal, beating the torpor of calculation in the first ten minutes. Raúl Jiménez shot on goal after receiving a leaked ball, but the defender Jose Ardon he swept with his hands detached and the referee did not hesitate to score penalty that Jiménez himself shot, completely deceiving the goalkeeper of the Ham comb Norwegian, Nicholas Hagen to finally score after a year of scoring drought.

Guatemala almost did not arrive

At minute 18 there was a handball in the Mexican area but the referee did not mark it. The only times that Guatemala came with real danger they occurred in the final part of the first half, first with a good header to the 38 minutes that Malagón pulled out with difficulty, and then to the 39 with a good shot from a boat soon by Sarabia.

the climax

Uriel Antuna y Luis Chavez They entered the 55th to renew Cocca’s approach and it was precisely Antuna who motivated the second for El Tri, by giving a very good pass to Reyes, who shot just for the stop of the Chapín goalkeeper, whose rebound was taken by De la Rosa who came in as a substitute together with Reyes and Tiba Sepúlveda to score the second and final one at minute 80.

The game saw debuts, such as goalkeeper Toño Rodríguez, who entered for the complementary part.