Mexico will play this Sunday against Ecuador for its place in the second round of the Copa América, amid a hostile and pessimistic atmosphere on the part of fans and the media who do not trust the team and who demand the departure of coach Jaime Lozano.
Mexico, in its return to the Copa América after not playing it in 2021, began the tournament in which it competes as one of the guests, with an unconvincing 1-0 victory over Jamaica, the weakest rival in group B, and Then they lost their second match, last Wednesday, 1-0 against Venezuela.
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The result against the South Americans left the Mexicans with the difficult task of having to beat the Ecuadorians this Sunday, with a better present than the Concacaf team.
In Mexico, few are confident that their team will beat Ecuador, with a squad led by figures such as Moisés Caicedo, midfielder for English Chelsea, and Piero Hincapié, centre-back for German champions Bayer Leverkusen.
Lozano does not have players on his roster who are in the best European clubs, his main figure is Santiago Giménez, from the Dutch Feyenoord, who has not scored goals in two games in this Copa América.
What prevails in Mexico is the pessimism of the media and fans who are focused on questioning the hierarchy of Lozano, a young 45-year-old coach with little experience.
The coach’s inexperience was exposed by one of the television stations that broadcasts El Tri’s games, when in the final minutes of the match against Venezuela, Lozano shouted from the bench that Johan Vásquez was the player who should take the penalty that would give the team the tie, however Orbelín Pineda took the ball and ignored the coach’s orders, then missed the penalty kick.
The local press has already begun to hear rumors that if Mexico does not advance to the second round, Lozano will be fired, even though before the Copa América the directors assured that he would be the coach in the 2026 World Cup, which the country will organize together with Canada and the United States.
Mexico, the country that, as a guest in the Copa América, has achieved the best results (two runners-up), is risking its prestige and the possible continuity of Lozano, this Sunday against Ecuador.
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