Ngravs9 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 2-1 in Van (penalty shot and Larin in poaches one home) dnf win in Azteca(Mexico airplane had some malfunctions and no other flight had room for them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redpunkfiddle Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 7 hours ago, JAVIERF said: This Mexico team is not a voodoo team AT ALL , for god's sake, get some grip fellows..... Canada can beat them at home with the correct approach....and away is still doable/....cut the crappy inferior syndrome....you know inferiority complex in footie.......We beat them for fun all the time, and they hate and curse our european guts, looks......and background....just because we are mostly blonde....... bring them to their knees home and away.... Have you actually ever been to Canada? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada1 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 I will wait until I see the roster before my prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada1 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Can 2 Mex 1 Can 0 Mex 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAVIERF Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 15 hours ago, Redpunkfiddle said: Have you actually ever been to Canada? Once, pal!! Im sad that Bunbury's son doesnt play for you, i think his father is the one to look up and blame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 1 hour ago, JAVIERF said: Once, pal!! Im sad that Bunbury's son doesnt play for you, i think his father is the one to look up and blame I admit that I have just consumed an inordinate amount of rum, but this leaves me confused. Do you really have 93 posts, including ones that chastise our caution about the Nats, on the grounds that you were here once and have some sense of Canadian footy support? There is hopeful optimism, and then there is deluded cheerleading. Saying that "we beat [Mexico] for fun" either falls into the latter category or is some subtle form of irony that escapes me at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 31 minutes ago, dyslexic nam said: I admit that I have just consumed an inordinate amount of rum, but this leaves me confused. Do you really have 93 posts, including ones that chastise our caution about the Nats, on the grounds that you were here once and have some sense of Canadian footy support? There is hopeful optimism, and then there is deluded cheerleading. Saying that "we beat [Mexico] for fun" either falls into the latter category or is some subtle form of irony that escapes me at the moment. Javier is from Argentina (?) and I believe he means they beat Mexico for fun, not Canada. Javier has explained that he has an affinity for Canada's MNT and that's why he posts here. For what it's worth, I appreciate the somewhat objective opinions. Javier if you ever make it back to Canada and I'm around I'd love to buy you a beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Ah. That makes more sense. My ipad should probably come with a breathalyzer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 4 hours ago, dyslexic nam said: Ah. That makes more sense. My ipad should probably come with a breathalyzer. To keep you from posting while drunk or to allow you only to post while drunk? The latter would be more fun ... for the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Canada 3-1 Mexico Mexico 1-1 Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Javier has a point - we are known to put our opponents on a pedestal. Are Mexico a good team? absolutely. Can we beat them? yes, of course! I see smaller teams beat bigger teams in one-off games ALL the time, even in WCQ. How many times have I pulled my hair out watching Nigeria draw or lose to a team ranked 50 places or more beneath them in WCQ or ACON qualifying? I lost count a long time ago. This is not an Andorra versus Spain style mismatch. We have some quality players who have suited up against equal of better players then what Mexico has. Hutchinson, Arfield, Hoilett, heck even De Guzman have gone up against some great players in their careers. Arfield, Hoilett and Hutchinson in particular are players that Mexico will be concerned about, and so they should be. I don't think our players are going to fear them, nor should our fans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I alternatively hate and enjoy these prediction threads. I'm not going to give a prediction. Too much bad karma. On the other hand, these make me think back to our match vs Colombia where we defended stalwartly and it took an excellent play on a quick free kick to beat us. Throw in home field advantage in Vancouver (hopefully), and against Mexico it's quite conceivable that we can do the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squizz1402635577 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 If Leicester City can win the freakin' Premier League -- a whole-season endeavour against numerous teams with the basically unlimited capacity to strengthen their own squads -- then we can sure as hell beat Mexico in a one-off at home. I'm not saying we will (like Rob, these prediction threads scare the hell out of me), but I agree there's no benefit to conceding defeat ahead of time, except to shield oneself from the emotional pain of hoping for a positive result and not having it happen. But hey, such emotional pain is part and parcel of following this team, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 42 minutes ago, Obinna said: Javier has a point - we are known to put our opponents on a pedestal. Are Mexico a good team? absolutely. Can we beat them? yes, of course! I see smaller teams beat bigger teams in one-off games ALL the time, even in WCQ. How many times have I pulled my hair out watching Nigeria draw or lose to a team ranked 50 places or more beneath them in WCQ or ACON qualifying? I lost count a long time ago. This is not an Andorra versus Spain style mismatch. We have some quality players who have suited up against equal of better players then what Mexico has. Hutchinson, Arfield, Hoilett, heck even De Guzman have gone up against some great players in their careers. Arfield, Hoilett and Hutchinson in particular are players that Mexico will be concerned about, and so they should be. I don't think our players are going to fear them, nor should our fans! It's more Like a Germany vs Repubic of Ireland type of game. Ireland won at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAVIERF Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 YOU HAVE TO RESPECT YOUR FOOTIE RIVALS BY BEATING THEM AND KICK THEM IN THE BUTT after you scored a screamer fellows....that's why is hard to play against southamerican teams, Paraguay is hard done and Uruguay as well, Chile are known as cheaters and the same goes to Peru, southamerican players they love to play against african nations because they label african players as naives and they can cheat them better, african players are noble and in a way similar to the european, usa , canada and jamaica trinidad haiti .... the koreans and mexicans, honduras costa rican, sel salvador are alike they kick ya , they cheat all over the park and the fall all over the pitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trc2014 Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Can someone remind me about our card situation going into these games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Hoilett has a yellow vs Honduras. De Guzman and Johnson got yellows vs el salvador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrennanFan Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I'd like to see them all take professional yellows in Van so they miss Mexico away, our least important match. Losing them for El Salvador home match in September would be disastrous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addona Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 1 hour ago, BrennanFan said: I'd like to see them all take professional yellows in Van so they miss Mexico away, our least important match. Losing them for El Salvador home match in September would be disastrous. The ES match is the last match ... H. away is 5th, but your point stands. Still, we could always rest some players away at Mex if they are on a yellow, thereby making them available for the H. away game. I would only do this with JH though since: i. We have more depth now than in the past, and ii. It sends a really negative message if we rest, say, Hutch, WJ, JDG, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAVIERF Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 isnt a few years back canada fought with radzinski and his group a 2/2 at home and a narrow defeat away...canada was winning at some point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 On March 19, 2016 at 6:14 PM, canta15 said: It's more Like a Germany vs Repubic of Ireland type of game. Ireland won at home. Or when Venezuela/Bolivia beat Argentina at home We can definitely get a result, but I question our team's mental strength. I'd love to be proved wrong though and it's possible with new additions like Arfield, Hoilett and Larin that we have a new belief. I think added in to guys like De Guzman, Hutchinson, Hume, Johnson, Edgar, Borjan we have a good group of driven players that seem to gel nicely. Still, I see this going down like the home Gold Cup match. 0-0 and a 3-1 loss away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 15 minutes ago, JAVIERF said: isnt a few years back canada fought with radzinski and his group a 2/2 at home and a narrow defeat away...canada was winning at some point You're right. This was in 2008, qualifying for South Africa. Canada lost 2-1 away to Mexico that round (Gerba) and drew with 10 men 2-2 in Edmonton (Gerba, Radzinski), though the latter match was after Mexico had the group pretty well won. The away leg was not at Azteca, but in Chiapas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 2 minutes ago, jonovision said: You're right. This was in 2008, qualifying for South Africa. Canada lost 2-1 away to Mexico that round (Gerba) and drew with 10 men 2-2 in Edmonton (Gerba, Radzinski), though the latter match was after Mexico had the group pretty well won. The away leg was not at Azteca, but in Chiapas. You're right but we actually had 11 men and Mexico needed that point. Actually if they didn't get that point they would have been eliminated, they ended up losing the next match away to Honduras and were tied at 10 points with Jamaica and went through on goal differential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 3 minutes ago, Keegan said: You're right but we actually had 11 men and Mexico needed that point. Actually if they didn't get that point they would have been eliminated, they ended up losing the next match away to Honduras and were tied at 10 points with Jamaica and went through on goal differential. You're right. I was remembering de Jong get sent off but he actually went off injured. Fun fact, though, from searching the CSA site for that result: the last time Mexico scored more than 2 goals in a match against Canada was in 1997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAVIERF Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 i think that was that game that radzinski injured his elbow somehow landed in concrete and had to be replaced .....radzinski had that extra pace what a classy forward he was, he invented rooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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