Santiago Giménez marks the goal with which the Tri rescues the tie against South Korea in a friendly duel made in Nashville
Nashville – A first half of illusion and a second night of nightmare. AND Javier Aguirre When he turned a year at the head of the Mexican National Team Get an distressing tie before South Korea, 2-2, compared to 27,604 fans in the Geodis Park, that went from euphoria, to disenchantment and finally to euphoria.
Again Santi Giménez saves the Mexican team. The space was manufactured to the 94th minute, and the time, to get a powerful left-footed shot and beat goalkeeper Kim Seung-Gyu.
With seven modifications regarding the party against Japan, Aguirre had recovered the Tri, with a windy first half, but from the massive changes to ’64, the team fell into confusion and disorder, and in 10 minutes he received the two goals of his epitaph.
With the siege of the debts contracted before Japan, with those seven novelties in the titular picture, the first half of the Mexican National Team He expressed improvement, also taking advantage of South Korea’s adjustments, whose players were not a pernicious leech in pressure and overwhelming.
1.- If Raúl Jiménez, even in the melee fight, as before Japan, has options, will mark.
2.- If Chiquito Sánchez finds partners who play pin Pon, touch, I move and receive, find spaces to generate.
3.- When you have two fresh, young, run over, insolent, intransigent sides, start undermining the adversary, to be enforced and dare with them. Notable bones and Mateo.
4.- If Marcel Ruiz has assistants and non-hindering, generates, recovers and orders, although for the moment he abused and Rococó.
5.- And of course, when this adversary does not bite your neck or harass you almost innoble, as the Japanese guard does, Mexico felt more comfortable.
All these incidents were marking coincidences throughout the game. However, they reached only and exclusively for a good first half, and a dramatic collapse in the second half, by incidentally coinciding the changes of Mexico and those of Korea.
A 45 -minute swallow was not enough for a tricolor summer.
And at minute ’21, the catalyst of those coincidences occurred. Rodrigo Huescas It is cited blind with a long and frontal center to the area. Raúl Jiménez He draws the trade, drains pure fiber among his Korean jailers and stines impeccable head. 1-0.
As before Japan, at minute 61, Javier Aguirre Altera his cartography: Diego Láinez enters through Berterame, Santiago Giménez By Jiménez, and Alexis Vega for Chucky. I tried to maintain order at the bottom, but recover depth, especially after the entry of Charly Rodríguez by Marce Ruiz, that had cut offensive oxygen flow.
And four minutes after the flood of Mexican modifications, the tie arrives, by the hand of the stellar reliever of South Korea, they are Heung-min, with brutal left-handed to extension of Oh Hyeon-Gyu’s pass for 1-1.
But, just as Mexican defense neglected Son in 1-1, in hand in hand, 75 ‘, Ohhyeon-Gyu himself bursts his skeleton and body Johan Vásquezto shoot down and crossed Speak Rangel.
The last 15 minutes, complicity was given. South Korea retreated, in two solid walls., To defend that 2-1, and in the siege, in the site, the harassment of the Korean goal, but the auctions of Chiquito Sánchez, Santi Giménez and Alexis Vega, They were already insufficient.
And it is until the 94th minute, with a powerful and placed auction, of implacable left -footed Giménez Amid the carelessness of the already exhausted Korean defense, for 2-2.
In this double confrontation against Asian teams, Mexico has the balance of two draws with a flavor of defeats, before Japan and South Korea.