Mexico - Poland: match of group C of the World Cup in Qatar, live

The players of the Mexican team during a friendly against Sweden. Joan Monfort (AP)

It's World Cup time.

Mexico makes its debut in the World Cup against a tough Poland, guided by the goals of Robert Lewandowski.

El Tri, with doubts about his performance and the management of Tata Martino, will play his eighth tournament in a row.

In group C it also coincides with Messi's Argentina and Saudi Arabia.

The Mexicans face the game at stadium 974, in Doha, with the lack of a goal as the main problem.

Raúl Jiménez, bet of the Argentine strategist, is still not ready after overcoming a series of injuries.

The match will be conditioned by the defeat of Argentina (1-2) against Saudi Arabia.

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Hirving Lozano, the hero four years ago, wants to surprise Szczesny

The Mexican, who arrived at Russia 2018 as a rookie, now has an important career in European football: first at PSV Endhoven and then at Napoli.

Injuries, however, hindered his growth in these years.

Today he is the owner again.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:44

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The players of Mexico, before starting the match.

/ GLYN KIRK / AFP

Poland

Tata Martino has sent his captain, Andrés Guardado, to the bench to bet on Luis Chávez.

He also left Raúl Jiménez as a substitute, who is trying to recover from injury, and has put Henry Martín on the field.

The América striker helped Mexico win the bronze medal in Tokyo.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:42

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Herrera, Chávez and Álvarez, a trident for the Mexican column

Tata Martino has opted for the height and bravery of Edson Álvarez (Ajax);

by Luis Chávez (Pachuca), the biggest surprise on the Mexican roster, and Héctor Herrera (Houston Dynamo), the most creative man with the ball in that sector.

The Argentine knows that they must stop at all costs the Polish attack that will play against. 

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:35

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This is how Poland will play

Szczesny;

Cash, Kiwior, Glink, Gereszynski, Zalewski, Krychowiak, Kaminski, Szymanski, Zielinski, and Lewandowski.

The captain, of course, is the Barcelona striker.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:26

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This is how Mexico will play tonight

Tata Martino has already defined his eleven: Guillermo Ochoa;

Jorge Sánchez, Héctor Moreno, César Montes and Jesús Gallardo;

in the center will be Edson Álvarez, Héctor Herrera and Luis Chávez;

in attack Alexis Vega, Hirving Lozano and Henry Martín

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:23

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bad mexican memory

The last time El Tri and Poland met in the 1978 World Cup in the group stage.

That time Poland destroyed the Mexicans 3-1 with a brace from Boniek and Deyna;

the discount was from Víctor Rangel.

In Argentina, Mexico suffered so much that it could neither pass the groups nor win.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:20

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A fan outside the 974 stadium. / HAMAD I MOHAMMED / REUTERS

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The color is put by the Mexicans

Mexican fans have flooded the streets of Qatar with luchador masks, Day of the Dead makeup, Aztec garb and plenty of mariachi hats.

Along with Saudi Arabia, the US and Argentina, Mexico was one of the countries that requested the most tickets from FIFA for the World Cup.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:45

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The judges who will guide the Mexico-Poland

The referees who will be this match at stadium 974 will be Australian Chris Beath, along with assistants and compatriots Ashley Beecham and Anton Schentinin.

The fourth referee will be Stéphanie Frappart, the first whistler to direct in the Champions League.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 14:42

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Nobody wants Tata Martino in Mexico

Diego Mancera

The Mexican adage says: "There is no chair hotter than that of the coach of the Mexican team."

The position of coach of El Tri is a stormy journey that has an expiration date, a maximum of four years, although they are doing well.

The pressure is high for a country trying to be among the best in the world in its favorite sport, but in the last seven World Cups it has been stuck in the round of 16.

Generations and generations of promising footballers have suffered the same fate.

At the World Cup in Qatar, expectations have dropped to the point of talking that getting past the group stage will be seen as an achievement.

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In the image, by Marcio José Sánchez (AP), Martino during a press conference in California. 

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:38

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Mexico - Poland: This has been the last World Cup debuts for the team

Alexander I. Lopez

Mexico has become a permanent guest at the World Cup in the last three decades.

Since Italy 1990, when FIFA sanctioned the Mexican Football Federation for falsifying birth certificates in a tournament with an age limit, the team has qualified for the seven World Cups played since then.

Even more: in all of them he has passed the group stage.

El Tri's solvency to overcome the first round from the United States 1994 to Russia 2018, however, fades in the round of 16.

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In the image, the players of the Mexican team in a friendly against Sweden (Reuters).

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 14:56

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Plans change in group C

Argentina, Poland and Mexico saw the Asian team as an easy rival to defeat and get the three points.

What a blow to everyone.

Saudi Arabia has achieved the most important victory for his country after knocking down Messi's Argentina.

So things get tight: Mexico will feel the Argentine fury this Saturday because the albiceleste needs to recover the flight.

A piece of information: in 2010, Spain lost its opening match against Switzerland and then ended up as world champion.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 13:54

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Saudi Arabia leaves Argentina dreaming

Jose Samano

A team with nine starters from the fourth-placed league in Saudi Arabia took Messi's Argentina ahead on Tuesday.

Soccer is amazing, a spell like few others.

The albiceleste failure was resounding.

A team without entry volume and rudimentary when they had to row against a Saudi Arabia with more physical lining and an overdose of enthusiasm when in an avalanche as soon as the second act began, it left the albiceleste resounding.

A period scourge for the two-time South American champion, without any margin before his harrowing duels with Mexico and Poland.

At the end of the clash, in the imposing Lusail Arabia stadium and its noisy and numerous fans felt like world champions.

Of the universe.

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In the image, by Ebrahim Noroozi (AP), Lionel Messi, after Saudi Arabia's second goal.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 15:42

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Welcome!

Greetings from Diego Mancera, journalist from EL PAÍS in Mexico City.

This afternoon we will discuss the main details of the match between the Mexican team and the Polish team.

The meeting is at 10:00 a.m. (Mexican time), 5:00 p.m. (peninsular time).

This is the second match in group C after Argentina's defeat against Saudi Arabia.

ON NOVEMBER 22, 2022 - 13:03

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