2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final - USA vs Mexico, August 1st, 2021

Of course I remember...he also coached Mexico to the best WC showing since 98...

 

I don’t think this team is bad, it still reached the regional final and we have another 20 or so young players in medal contention at the olympics. We also have jj and arteaga who will also be in the mix.

 

In between world cups, Mexico used to participate in the confederations cup and the Copa America. Now we have only the nations league and the gold cup.

Meanwhile at the club level, Mexican clubs no longer get to test their mettle in the libertadores or sudamericana.

The power structure of our region and our federation simply don’t create a very compelling atmosphere anymore for the sport. But it’s enough for the masses to keep forking over a small fortune to keep going to games in the states. I’m more apathetic than anything when you consider this reality.

But I’ll be up on Tuesday at 4am.

 

We're qualifying....yes or no?

 

By luck. That year's Gold Cup Mexico came in second in the group, where T&T came in first. Mexico was seconds away from losing to a 10 man Panama team in semi's, before a lucky pk to take it to extra time where they won and also a last minute pk against Costa Rica for the victory before going to penalty shootouts in the quarterfinals. Piojo's teams in the Gold Cup was probably the most dissapointing, given that this was 5-6 years ago and we had our strongest players, including Vela. lol. Can't believe some fans still want his shitty ass back and just ignore that tournament with how crap we played given all that talent we had.

 

Before people crown Lozano, remember how much the preolympic squad struggled in the final vs Honduras in Guadalajara. I’m proud of Jimmy but he’s way too green and he’s just getting started.

You can’t draw many useful conclusions from the way we play against concacaf opponents.

We sleepwalked with Osorio in this region in qualifiers and were largely exposed vs higher level competition.

We finished 4th out of 6th place in the hexagonal in road to 2014 and then had arguably our best world cup outside of Mexico.

 

Don’t watch it. Total waste of 2+ hours

 

We better not be in Qatar next summer, the team would be showing up like 4 months too early

 

Lol....my bad

 

It was nowhere close to a cake walk, remember we needed a Chilena, a new coach and 2 games against New Zealand just to make it.

 

I forgot chuki and Raul, we’ll be alright in wcqs

 

What???? Bruh

 

That game was terrible...

Salcedo and pizzaro plus Pulido are garbage..

 

I’ve said the both suck ass...

 

Raul will not be the same. He has lost 50%!of his artillery

 

The difference was Mexico was atrocious that entire year in qualifiers before the gold cup that summer. I think most of the board was actually done with chepo by that summer.

That team couldn’t generate a single thing in qualifiers.

Apples to oranges.

 

This is a nightmare right ? In still sleeping, I’ll wake up soon; and watch the Gold cup final tonight [emoji1430]...... [emoji24]

 

I don’t think inexperience is bad if a coach has shown an ability to win, adapt, and motivate. Coaches like players only get worse and predictable as they age.

 

A lot needs to improve....but I'm not freaking out and think we're in a crisis.

Crisis was going to a repechage...I seriously doubt that's going to happen this time

 

Meh, that was always the weakest part of his game anyway.

 

not so sure about Raul losing 50% of his artillery. He almost scored a header ( or at least was decent header)here at the 1:17 mark