By Reinaldo Oliveros
Nov 17, 2023, 09:40 AM EST
The Mexican team faces Honduras this Friday in the Concacaf Nations League for a place in the Copa América 2024. Mexico has been clearly superior in recent games, although on Honduran soil it has difficult results.
Since 2015, Honduras has lost seven of the 10 games they have played against El Tri. The last Honduran victory was 3-2 in 2017 for the 2018 Russia World Cup Qualifiers.
The José de la Paz Herrera Uclés Stadium will be the venue for this Friday’s match. Mexico took the 1-0 victory on the last visit to Hondurass with a goal from Edson Álvarez in the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers.
In November 2015, Mexico also won 2-0 at the Metropolitan Olympic Stadium in Honduras with goals from Tecatito Corona and Jurgen Damm in the Russian Qualifiers.
In March 2013 and prior to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Mexico barely managed a two-goal draw in San Pedro Sula.
Therefore, their record as a visitor in the Central American nation is two wins, two draws. and one defeat in the last five games. This Friday he hopes to achieve a victory that will qualify him for the Copa América 2024 to be held in the United States.
Honduras hopes to raise its head with Reinaldo Rueda
The Hondurans come to the game at a disadvantage in terms of Rueda’s short preparation time. with the national team since he was announced as the new coach, on July 31, for the second time since he managed to get the Central American nation to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In the last ten games that Honduras and Mexico have played, between November 17, 2015 and June 25, 2023, The Aztecs won seven, tied two and lost one.
The Mexican team arrives at Friday’s match with a squad that includes players with experience in that country’s soccer. and abroad, and greater international contact with his team than the Hondurans.
Last Monday Rueda highlighted that the Mexican team is “in a good moment” for its commitment to Honduras, with players who are “in the world’s major leagues.”
The Mexican team “is intense and our task will be to try to play a game with those characteristics,” Rueda told reporters, at the same time valuing the resources that Honduras has, fifteen of them playing abroad, among which are the forwards Anthony Lozano, from Getafe, Spanish, and Luis Palma, from Celtic, Scottish.
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