A delicately designed Mexican victory

By Martin Langer, with Mexico

Nobody likely this. Anyone who pronounced they could see it function was many substantially lying, with a exception, that is, of Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio or one of his players. Over a final few months, Osorio has been hatching a devise to better a reigning universe champions, and currently during a Luzhniki Stadium, El Tri executed it to perfection.

We exhibit a keys to Mexico’s ancestral delight in Moscow.

Constant pressing

“We know Germany’s character and we know that a success of their complement is formed on Toni Kroos’ legs, so a series one priority was to neutralize him,” Javier Chicharito Hernandez told us. “But it wasn’t usually a box of perplexing to do that with him. It was my pursuit to try and stop [Mats] Hummels, who’s their best defender on a ball, from personification his game. The aim was to interrupt their flow.”

While Germany enjoyed some-more possession, quite in a second half, Mexico’s dire diversion done certain a holders were never during ease. Proof of that is a fact that El Tri recovered possession 38 times to a Germans’ 31.

Speed on a counter

“We knew that El Profe [‘The Professor’, to give Osorio his nickname] had spent months operative on his devise though he usually told us about it a small while ago,” explained Hector Herrera, who also had an glorious afternoon. “The thought was to press them and also to widespread a play as fast as probable and make a many of a speed of a aggressive players.”

It was Herrera who began a pierce that led to Mexico’s idea with a glorious pass into a trail of Chicharito, who in spin fed a round on for Hirving Lozano to glow home. It was not a usually glorious possibility combined by El Tri, who time and again exploited a space left by a German midfield to bluster Manuel Neuer’s goal.

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