Goals and Highlights: Mexico 2-3 Colombia in Friendly Match 2022 | 09/28/2022

It's over, Colombia beats Mexico in the last preparation match.

Vega's shot, but the ball does not hit Ospina's goal.

Cambio de Colombia. Durán replaces Díaz.

Mexico weaved their way into the Colombian box, but the defense ended up pushing the ball away.

Protocol is activated due to homophobic shouting at the meeting.

Chavez's cut and shot, but the ball goes wide of the goal.

Sanchez arrived with danger, but Cuadrado swept in and ended up avoiding the Mexican goal.

Goal, goal, goal for Colombia! Barrios' volley from outside the box and Ochoa can't prevent the third.

Vega's cross, but Colombia ends up preventing the ball from going through.

Changes in Mexico. Erick Sánchez, César Montes, Santiago Giménez and Luis Chávez are substituted for Carlos Rodríguez, Kevin Álvarez, Henry Martin and Andrés Guardado.

Goal, goal, goal for Colombia! Sinisterra finds the ball in the box and sends in a lethal shot to tie the match.

Goal, goal, goal for Colombia! Sinisterra's shot to Ochoa's goal is blocked.

Changes in Colombia. Arzate, James and Falcao are replaced by Carrascal, Mojica and Santos.

The second half is played between Mexico and Colombia.

At the end of the first half, Mexico beats Colombia two-nil.

Vega arrived with danger, but Ospina keeps the ball.

Close! Cuesta's header ends up going wide of Ochoa's goal.

Colombia is looking for the first one.

Goal, goal, goal for Mexico! Arteaga arrived in the box and sent a shot into the goal that ended up going into the back of the net.

Antuna's diagonal, but the defense ends up clearing the ball and preventing Martin from shooting.

The match is quite hard fought, both teams are pressing to reach the opponent's goal.

Antuna's shot, but it goes over the goal.

Goal, goal, goal for Mexico! Alexis Vega sends in a lethal shot to open the scoring.

Penalty for Mexico! Diaz brings down Antuna inside the box and the penalty is called.

Mexico and Colombia kick off the match.

Ospina, Medina, Sánchez, Cuesta, Fabra, Barrios, Alzate, Cuadrado, James Rodríguez, Luis Díaz, Falcao.

Ochoa; K.Álvarez, Moreno, Araujo, Arteaga, Gutiérrez, Guardado, Rodríguez; Antuna, Vega, Martín.

Both teams are already warming up on the field prior to the start of the match.

Colombia is already present at the stadium and will be looking for a good match and an important victory.

Mexico, with Martino at the helm, is already at the stadium, tonight they will be looking for a victory.

After the elimination, Colombia wasted no time and chose Lorenzo to coach the team and begin preparations for the next World Cup.

Gerardo Martino continues to move the pieces in order to choose the right players to attend the World Cup at the end of the year.

Guillermo Ochoa is the player to pay special attention to, the goalkeeper has six clean sheets in seven games, a number he will be looking to increase.

The last time Mexico played in this facility was in 2019, when it defeated Paraguay by four goals to two.

This is where the game against Colombia will be played, which will welcome thousands of fans from both teams who will be out in full force to support their team.

We're back for a minute-by-minute coverage of the Mexico-Colombia match. We will soon share with you the most relevant information about both teams, as well as the confirmed lineups.

Lorenzo stated that there will be changes in the starting eleven for this match, due to the type of game played by Martino's team.

Mexico last won against Colombia in 2010, where Elías Hernández scored a solitary goal to come out on top.

Néstor Lorenzo spoke before the match: "Mexico is a very even team in all its lines, that plays good soccer, that leads from the back. The issue is the difficulty of where we are going to recover and how. They associate well and run down the flanks, these are Mexico's strengths in the World Cup; this is the information we are giving to the players and what worries me".

In a few moments we will share with you the starting lineups for Mexico vs Colombia live, as well as the latest information from Levi's Stadium. Stay tuned to VAVEL's live online minute-by-minute coverage of the match. 

The match will be broadcasted on TUDN channel.

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This is the kick-off time for the Mexico vs Colombia match on September 27, 2022 in several countries:

 

Peru - 21:00 hours

Chile - 22:00 hours

Mexico - 21:00 hours

Colombia - 21:00 hours

Ecuador - 21:00 hours

Bolivia - 10:00 p.m.

Paraguay - 10:00 p.m.

Venezuela - 10:00 p.m.

Argentina - 11:00 p.m.

Uruguay - 11:00 p.m.

Brazil - 11:00 p.m.

Gerardo Martino spoke before the match against Colombia: "It's good to have this time to stand in the middle because we have to do the exercise to see how the players recover, who is able to repeat, find the best formation, so in that sense it's good. Regarding the five players who, by mutual agreement with their clubs rejoined them to continue their rehabilitation."

"I deeply regret that Colombia with Reynaldo Rueda did not qualify, I would have really liked to see them in the World Cup. What they have are very good individuals, playing in the best leagues in the world and now, starting a totally new process. They are with the desire to show each of the new coaches that they are there to be part of the new period and that is what we will see tomorrow from Colombia's players."

"What we always intend is for people to leave happy. We are not oblivious to the feeling that we can awaken in the fans, much more so when the World Cup is approaching, not exclusively because of what has to do with what happened six years ago, we do it because we want people to somehow be able to recover the illusion and have expectations when we start playing the first game of the World Cup."

"Not everything we put at stake tomorrow has to do with the match with Poland or in trying things for the match against the Poles, there are times when we have to find the solution exclusively for what tomorrow's match represents."

"The fundamental thing has to do with replacement, it was our turn, if you look at the Russia roster there is almost no one left, Jorge Sánchez, (César) Montes, (Johan) Vázquez, ( Gerardo) Arteaga, Carlos Rodríguez, (Sebtasián) Córdova, (Luis) Chávez, (Érick) Sánchez, (Eduardo) Aguirre, 'Piojo' (Alvarado), (Diego) Lainez, (Alexis) Vega, that has to do with us? I wouldn't say it, but you asked me and that is the selection of Mexico, the United States and Canada 2026 because in the pandemic the Olympics took a year and those guys were formed in the senior national team and that is a positive balance that I find.

"Then there is a way of playing, like it or not, the national team plays in a certain way and this is useful in the same process or if there is a similar way of playing, which is the same when we have to choose a player, there are some who adapt much better because of the way they play in their club and others who seem to us like national team players, but we have to help them adapt like the Atlas players, but clearly there are many young players who have become national team players.

Colombia arrives to this match after defeating Guatemala four goals to one, adding an important victory in this FIFA date.

Mexico continues its preparation for the Qatar World Cup 2022, in the previous match they defeated Peru by the minimum with a brilliant performance by Hirving Lozano.

The Mexico vs Colombia match will be played at Levi's Stadium, located in California, United States. The stadium has a capacity for 25,000 people.

My name is Lore Solórzano and I’ll be your host for this game. We will provide you with pre-game analysis, score updates, and news as it happens live here on VAVEL.