Sunday, August 21, 2011

Buckling France, Mexico Grab Third Place


Mexico managed to end its action in the tournament U-20 World Cup with sweet. Although time lags in advance, the team nicknamed El Tri was successfully defeated France to win third place.

Estadio Nemesio Camacho competed in Sunday (21/08/2011) morning local time, Mexico subvert France with a score of 3-1. This is the highest achievement in 11 times Mexico's participation in this tournament.

France shocked Mexico with a 1-0 lead in the eighth minute through Alexandre Lacazette after utilizing cross Timotee Kolodziejczak.


This is the fifth goal Lacazette in this tournament and made ​​him the top scorer along with Henrique (Brazil) and Alvaro Vazquez (Spain).

French superiority was only four minutes just after Mexico equalized to 1-1 through Ulises Davila. He took off a horizontal kick from outside the box is not capable of perfectly captured by the opponent's goalkeeper, Jonathan Ligali.

Les Bleus trying to take over control of the game with a series of efforts and the efforts of Antoine Kolodziejczak Griezmann. But the 1-1 draw did not change until the interval.

Five minutes after the restart, Mexico instead turned to lead. Starting from a corner kick, Jorge Enrique inside the box without the escort had struck the ball into the goal. Mexico 2, France 1.

French nightmare occurred in 71 minutes back through the corner. This time, Edson Rivera who netted the ball into the goal after France welcomed the crossing Davila.

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