Special Envoy of the Observer in Doha, Qatar
It was already one of the most anticipated games of the group stage, even more so after the Saudi hurricane surprised Messi’s Argentina and broke a streak of 36 games in a row without defeat for the South Americans. And reasons were not lacking for a total bet by both teams in this game, with the Mexicans leading a streak of six consecutive games without losing in the Opening of the World Cup (five wins and one draw) but the Poles also having history. on his side for being the last to prevent El Tri from passing the group stage, in 1978. Even seeing the two realities, It really was a triple match in Totobola, with that unique advantage of Mexico of having the stadium almost completely full with their fans who idolized Chucky Lozano as quickly as they whistled Lewandowski. In fact, it was the first time that the announced capacity was correct, with almost 40,000 in a venue with 40,000.
The first part had this picturesque moment of the ooooléeeeeesssss Just after two minutes and the famous Hello (which in this case can be applied literally for being Mexican) with more than two laps after five but all that energy that came from the stands, on one side and the other, since the Latin American side had a proportion of counting a lot below 10 to 1, it only served to carry out a disputed match but without great opportunities. By the way, for the sake of truth there was only one for the first 45 minutes, with Héctor Herrera insisting on the right, managing to clear a cross on the second attempt and deflection from Alexis Vega brushing Szczesny’s post (26′).
In the second half, the shameless chances there began to show more of themselves but even so the void was undone, between a penalty won and missed by Robert Lewandowski with a great save by Ochoa deceiving the Barcelona striker (58′) and a deflection from Martín who narrowly missed Szczesny’s move (64′). There were even more approaches with relative danger but without the best last pass, with the game reaching the end with a stubborn null on the scoreboard.
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Source: Observadora
