🏆Match #40: Group C - Saudi Arabia 1-2 Mexico (30/11/22, 7pm)

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Re: 🏆Match #40: Group C - Saudi Arabia v Mexico (30/11/22, 7pm)

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Poor showing from CONCACAF
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BrumHammer wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 8:58 pm Lovely Saudi goal that, even if Mexico had given up defending.
Looked a bit soft how they allowed Saudi in, but I've only seen it once
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Re: 🏆Match #40: Group C - Saudi Arabia v Mexico (30/11/22, 7pm)

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Proper gutted for Mexico
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Shabu wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:07 pm Proper gutted for Mexico
Better finishing from them, or Lautaro Martínez in the other game, and they’d have gone through! So so close and a shame they’re out.
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vietnammer wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:03 pm Looked a bit soft how they allowed Saudi in, but I've only seen it once
Might've known that conceding one there would make zero difference to what they needed, to score one, so to save time/energy they just didn't really bother?
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Re: 🏆Match #40: Group C - Saudi Arabia v Mexico (30/11/22, 7pm)

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r99c wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:09 pm Might've known that conceding one there would make zero difference to what they needed, to score one, so to save time/energy they just didn't really bother?
Glad someone realised this! Neither the BBC commentators or the website match reporter seemed capable of working that out:

But Salem Al Dawsari's injury-time consolation strike ended any hope of a remarkable Mexico revival
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Re: 🏆Match #40: Group C - Saudi Arabia 1-2 Mexico (30/11/22, 7pm)

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I didn't bother to think, just took the commentator's word!
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Re: 🏆Match #40: Group C - Saudi Arabia 1-2 Mexico (30/11/22, 7pm)

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When I turned this on was expecting to Mexico to be pinning Saudi back etc but instead the game was still 50/50 and they just scored. It wasn't a massive counter-attack or anything like that just very shoddy defending
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