The Mexican team seeks to shake off fear against the United States

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Mexican players during training prior to the game against the United States. Mexican soccer team

The ogre for Tata Martino has been the United States team.

The Mexican team, under the tutelage of the Argentine, has lost three games against the Americans.

This time, the Mexicans play on the wire to avoid being defeated on their totem pitch: the Azteca stadium (8:00 p.m.).

The total nightmare is losing against their northern neighbors at home.

The defeat will complicate the Mexican aspirations to enter the World Cup in Qatar.

"This is probably the most important game, this could be worth a World Cup," Martino said on Monday.

El Tri has three games left in the qualifying rounds, including this one against the USA, with whom they tie in number of points, 21. The victory will open the gap between the two countries in the final stretch.

The leader of the classification is Canada, which has one foot in the World Cup, something it hasn't achieved since 1986. The fight between Mexico and the USA had its first round last November.

The stars and stripes shredded Martino's scheme to give him a 2-0.

The defeat led to a wave of questions for the Argentine because they were added to the other two shocks he faced.

The first was losing the final of the Nations League and the Gold Cup. Gregg Berhalter, the North American coach, has squeezed the talent of one of the best generations in the country, led by Christian Pulisic (Chelsea) and Tyler Adams (RB Leipzig) .

"Those games have already passed, they were lost and there is nothing that can be done to restore that situation," Martino lamented.

"I think that in each of the games against the USA the control of the midfield was decisive," he added in Zen mode.

For this match, the Argentine coach resorted to the players with the best rhythm such as Hirving Lozano, the Napoli sprinter who in recent games has ended up injured in the infirmary.

He also gives a boost to Héctor Herrera, who made it to the quarterfinals of the Champions League with Atlético de Madrid, although with the Mexican shirt he has had a hard time adapting.

He has also entrusted himself to the nonchalance of Jesús

Corona, from Sevilla.

To whom they have not resorted throughout the qualifying process has been Javier

Hernández.

The charismatic 33-year-old Mexican striker has had a downturn in performance since he decided in 2019 to cut short his career in Europe to play for the LA Galaxy.

His locker room problems with El Tri aggravated his situation.

The available forwards are Raúl Jiménez, recovered from a skull fracture, Henry Martín and the youthful Santiago Giménez (20 years old).

Mexico goes for its revenge against the homophobic cry

The Azteca stadium will once again receive fans in its stands after FIFA imposed a punishment on it for shouting “fucking”.

The highest football institution has hardened its crusade against this cry soaked in homophobia.

Mexican directors promoted, with permission from FIFA, a program to record all fans who attend the stadium.

A measure to have attendees identified in case they launch discriminatory cries against their rivals.

From the stands of the Azteca, the fans have punished Tata Martino's game system with this pejorative chant and, of course, it has been a shot to the foot.

The biggest threat to Mexico is that if the insults continue, FIFA could subtract points from the ranking.

The campaigns they have promoted since 2014 have failed.

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