Striker Eduardo Vargas alone grabbed four goals for Chile in an nearly one sided encounter.
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It abruptly ended Mexico’s 22-game unbeaten run, leaving the supporters who flocked to the Levi’s Stadium in their droves shellshocked.
El Tri has landed here at this stage and the game with winning their group stages with a total of six goals in three games. It’s been 59 years since a player scored 10 goals in his first 10 Copa America games.
Juan Carlos Osorio could do little but ask for the forgiveness of the Mexican people after overseeing a 7-0 thrashing from Chile. Osorio rejected the notion of stepping down after his first loss since taking over the team in October. I think it would be pretty cool for there to be two South American and two North American teams in the semifinals, and having the USA and Mexico both still in the mix would be fascinating on several levels.
This was Vargas’s first goal of his 4 goals scored on the night.
Victor plays Colombia in the semifinals.
Herrera, the FC Porto star, is anxious Federation Internationale de Football Association will ban games at the national stadium Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
Saturday night’s defeat in front of thousands of Mexican fans in Santa Clara, California dreaming of seeing their team in the final was called the most bitter and humiliating in Mexico’s soccer history by media across the Rio Grande. On Thursday, soccer officials condemned “any chants or actions that are derogatory or offensive during our matches”.
“We started this tournament badly but we’re getting stronger and stronger with every match”, he added.
Pizzi will closely check their defensive game plan in this match versus Mexico as they are anticipated to have a hard time trying to protect their goal from the El Tri striking duo of Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez and Oribe Peralta. “At the end, it hurt that our own fans were screaming at us and our own goalkeeper”.
But two of those wins came in La Roja’s last two matches, so perhaps things are looking up for the CONMEBOL champs.
Osorio, on the other hand, looked like a man out of sorts in the aftermath of what he described as a sporting tragedy.
“I didn’t imagine such a big defeat and, with all due respect to Chile, there isn’t a seven-goal difference between Chilean and Mexican football”, he said. “It is a good competition between us, a healthy one”. “Defensively we were very fragile”.
Vargas grabbed a second a minute before half-time to stun the crowd into silence as the teams headed in for the break.
Plus, Messi. I probably don’t need to explain it, but even though Argentina played very well without him in a win over defending champions Chile in the first game, his entrance in the tournament demonstrated his exceptional quality, yet again.
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Fights brought out in the stands by the final 10 minutes as fans acted out.
