…Mexico Bagged Two Red Cards in the Match.
Nigeria’s conqueror at the 24th world U20 football tournament, Argentina in the early morning of Sunday at Pradamos in Chile at the quarterfinals messed up Mexico with two resounding goals to nothing and a wound of two red cards to take back home.
Midfielder Maher Carrizo scored the first goal in the 9th minute which came out to be his 3rd goal having scored a brace against Nigeria and Mateo Silvetti netted the second goal in the 56th minute and he too had a goal scored against Nigeria.
Mexico became frustrated towards the end of the game that Diego Ochoa who scored in the 2-2 draw with Brazil got his 2nd Yellow in a match which transformed to a red card at 90+2 minutes of player only for Tehel Jimenez who scored against hosts Chile in the round of 16 games to get a straight red in 90+7 minutes acts that will count against them when organizers will be considering who wins Fair Play trophy.
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Both teams actually met once at a local competitive match in the Americas on 28th July 2016 which ended 1-1 but Mexico did the playing having 12-9 shots at goal with 2-6 on target meaning their players were not clinical at goal; they held the ball possession in 67-33% rate spraying 470-230 passes. Argentina was rather rough with 20-17 foul calls and 6-4 yellows only for the frustration to tell on Mexico that got two red cards in the match.
Goalkeeper of Mexico had 4-1 saves though his defenders were sloppy with 11-28 clearances, 9-11 interceptions and blocked on coming shot 1-5 times.
Colombia had earlier in the night shocked soccer giants Spain in a quarterfinal encounter to zoom into the semifinal.
Today, Sunday at 9pm still Nigeria time, Africa’s surviving team, Atlas Lions will test jungle might against high scoring Yankees of USA at Teniente while at midnight of Sunday it shall be Norway versus France.
Argentina will now meet Colombia in the semifinal on Wednesday at midnight at Santiago while another semifinal will feature USA/Morocco versus Norway/France at 9pm at Velparaiso.
Third place match is on Saturday at 8pm while the final is on Sunday at midnight Nigerian time.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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