Welp the good news is that you have to be truly awful to not qualify to the next round. Mexico should beat the Solomon Islands and qualify as one of the best 3rd place teams.
No hay palabras para ese nivel de idiotez. Just based on the way it was lost this is one of the most embarrassing youth games I've seen.
And to think we left Wilke home lol fvckin favoritism will be the death of us, we got to knock it off with that way of thinking
There's no way Mexico loses this game. These kids have been following a proceso since the u-15s. I can bet money on that proceso................oh wait.
The #10 is wack as hell .. there’s no one special on this team .. hopefully we luck out on the next round with a strong attacking team but with a weak defense ..
⚽️: La Selección Mexicana perdió ante Italia por 2 goles a 1, en partido del grupo F del campeonato mundial Sub17 en Brasil. Degnand Gnonto e Iyenoma Destiny Udogie marcaron por los azzurri, mientras que Efraín Álvarez descontó por el tricolor. Italia es líder con 6 puntos. pic.twitter.com/ElLq983vpw— José Juan Vázquez (@josejuangelmx) November 1, 2019 Go de Efraín Álvarez del #LAGalaxy con la Selección de México Sub 17 en el Mundial de la categoría pic.twitter.com/W8aoWCycz5— Mexicanos en la MLS (@en_mls) November 1, 2019
TBH the tactical side was fine. The team for about 92 minutes was well ordered and created more chances than Italy. There just isn't any attacking talent. Couple of dudes missed wide open shots. And the same issues as always killed us, some dumbass gave away the ball in midfield, Italy countered and scored. Then a lack of concentration at the end mixed with our complete inability to compete physically.
It's disheartening to see Mexico in this predicament. Mexico has shown that it has the talent to be at the top of this game in these youth tournaments and non-National Team tournaments (F7, U17, Danone etc..) but for whatever reason (I think we all know at least part of the reason why), this team lacks something. I mean, if this sub17's hopes are qualifying as one of the the best 3rd places, what hopes does the team have of advancing in R16?
Looks like they officially just need to beat Solomon Islands to advance to the next round vs either Senegal or Japan.
Oh Oh.........it usually sucks when were always in this type of predicament, we've seen this movie far too many times.
México U-17 | México volvió a tener varios problemas en ataque posicional ante Italia: pic.twitter.com/s1cO7eurYM— JuanMa Navarrete (@JM_navarrete) November 3, 2019
it doesn't matter what they actually do this tournament. The main problem is that we have had many UWC cycles already where no ones goes to become an actual good player. so what's the point? underage world cups main purpose is to develop player which we have not
Chingao, although true, its like the Copa America in its early early editions when 3 teams used to play. You show up and you are guaranteed semi-finals.
I'm not sure why we are so worried about advancing in 3rd place when Paraguay hasn't looked amazing either. We can still make it in as 2nd.