By Edgardo Avelar
07 Sep 2024, 01:25 AM EDT
The Mexican U20 women’s teamo continued making history this Friday, since despite losing to the local Colombia team 1-0, the Aztec team managed to advance to the round of 16 after overcome the tiebreaker criterion with Cameroon for receiving fewer yellow cards than Africans.
In this way, the Mexicans advanced to the next phase of the World Cup along with Cameroon itself, which also finished third. remained alive, as did Canada and Francewhich also follows in the footsteps of Colombia and Brazil, which have set the pace in the tournament.
Mexico’s qualification was due to a 2-2 draw with Cameroon, a 2-0 win over Australia, which was annulled The Aztecs’ stumble against the local Colombians 1-0 at the close of the first phase of activity.
In this way, Mexicans and Africans tied in games won, tied and lost, as well as in goals for and against, which is why they had to resort to Fair Play and yellow cardsthe Mexican team managed to take second place.
The Mexicans and the Africans finished with four points, four goals for and three against. In the direct match they finished 2-2, a reason The tiebreaker was the yellow cards: the Cameroonians received six in the three matches and the Mexicans two.
In Group B, Brazil added nine points, leaving France and Canada with four points. But those from the Old Continent surpassed their rivals by goal differencewhere the last goal was scored in the 95th minute.
While Cameroon’s qualification was achieved alongside the Maple Leaf selection because no team in Groups C and E can surpass them in points and, if they tie, they will not be able to obtain a better goal difference.
Concern in Colombia
On the other hand, the Colombian team could not celebrate in style its nine points that gave it the leadership of Group A, because the defender Yunaira López had to be transferred to the hospital, being the second major loss of the Colombian squad. due to the injury of attacker Karla Viancha on the first day.
For now, Yunaira’s medical report stated that she had suffered a “mild head trauma.” and will continue under observation.
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