WCQ: Mexico vs Canada - Thursday, Oct 7, 9:40pm Eastern / 6:40pm Pacific - Mexico City

[Blackjack15]

Northern Futbol Podcast Episode 29 - Previewing Canada vs Mexico:

 

Edited October 5, 2021 by Blackjack15

[narduch]

 

[king1010]

Looks like theyre training at UNAM’s facilities. 

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

21 minutes ago, king1010 said:

Looks like theyre training at UNAM’s facilities. 

More specifically the "Club Universidad Nacional A. C."

[VinceA]

Watched some Mexican soccer previews for the game and while the Mexicans are confident against Canada (As the should be) they all seem to agree that Davies is the best in CONCACAF and that if Mexico run into problems it will be because of him.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

On 10/2/2021 at 8:27 AM, canuckgbp said:

I’ve seen it said this is the ref that was card happy during that Gold Cup Martinique game where we had 6 yellows? 

Our original ref has been replaced by another!

 

[saintjoes]

Great to see some Mexican journalists noting Canada's world class attackers.. saying their defense is in for trouble. A proud read:

https://www.tudn.com/futbol/concacaf-mundial-eliminatorias/mexico-vs-canada-alphonso-davies-jonathan-david-cyle-larin-figuras-canada

[Cblake]

2 hours ago, narduch said:

 

What a cool setting to train in, I sure it will provide the protection and security considerations Herdman was looking for. Hopefully they get a good nights sleep. 

[Cblake]

12 minutes ago, saintjoes said:

Great to see some Mexican journalists noting Canada's world class attackers.. saying their defense is in for trouble. A proud read:

https://www.tudn.com/futbol/concacaf-mundial-eliminatorias/mexico-vs-canada-alphonso-davies-jonathan-david-cyle-larin-figuras-canada

Absolutely, can not see how anyone regardless of where they are from would think of Phonzie as anything less than World Class. Looking forward seeing him and Jonathan up front on Thursday. 

[CanadaFan123]

2 hours ago, narduch said:

 

Freeze at 29 seconds - is that Pasher sitting next to Millar?

[Jith12]

6 minutes ago, CanadaFan123 said:

Freeze at 29 seconds - is that Pasher sitting next to Millar?

I think that's Cristian Campagna, a 19 year old CB currently with the Whitecaps U23 team. He has been invited to the last few senior national team camps as a training player, I remember seeing him sitting on the sidelines during the US game last window.

[Dominic94]

56 minutes ago, Jith12 said:

I think that's Cristian Campagna, a 19 year old CB currently with the Whitecaps U23 team. He has been invited to the last few senior national team camps as a training player, I remember seeing him sitting on the sidelines during the US game last window.

Older brother of Matteo ?

 

also is Araujo with the Mexicans ? He did switch… recruiting the duals was huge for them to secure their future, Flores, Araujo, Gonzalez and Alzarez are going to be key pieces, I’m really surprised they didn’t get Pepsi, that is a big loss for them but to be fair he doesn’t seem to have so much competition at striker with the USA.

[RS]

21 minutes ago, Dominic94 said:

I’m really surprised they didn’t get Pepsi

Mexico’s much more of a Coke nation.

[Unnamed Trialist]

7 hours ago, VinceA said:

Watched some Mexican soccer previews for the game and while the Mexicans are confident against Canada (As the should be) they all seem to agree that Davies is the best in CONCACAF and that if Mexico run into problems it will be because of him.

Yes, also watched some. Confident in their attack since they have guys on form, but aware how they've had problems scoring. Not sure about their back line, and nervous we might expose it. 

Some pundits pull out the brazen confidence of Azteca, others recall they lost 2 finals this summer. 

Edited October 6, 2021 by Unnamed Trialist

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

Just watched the little teaser video and now feeling very pumped for this match. Planning to get up at 2:40am local time to watch. Let’s hope it’s a good one. 

[Unnamed Trialist]

9 hours ago, Greatest Cockney Rip Off said:

Just watched the little teaser video and now feeling very pumped for this match. Planning to get up at 2:40am local time to watch. Let’s hope it’s a good one. 

I should be up an hour later than that--I am not always able to pull it off. 

Too bad it is not earlier, if it was even 11pm it'd be in bars here full of Mexicans and at least I'd have a good time. 

My experience is that Mexican fans are pretty chill, maybe because they've almost always done what they have to do, they reach their potential almost always--though never go well beyond it. Considering the teams in the world that have played semi finals of the WC, it is odd they've never gotten past quarter finals. So when I've coincided with them they tend to be rather acceptant of what comes their way, and even slight underachievement does not get them overly nervous.

[yomurphy1]

10 hours ago, king1010 said:

Looks like theyre training at UNAM’s facilities. 

It's in a quarry.  So so cool. 

 

[Jith12]

8 hours ago, Dominic94 said:

Older brother of Matteo ?

 

also is Araujo with the Mexicans ? He did switch… recruiting the duals was huge for them to secure their future, Flores, Araujo, Gonzalez and Alzarez are going to be key pieces, I’m really surprised they didn’t get Pepsi, that is a big loss for them but to be fair he doesn’t seem to have so much competition at striker with the USA.

Yes, Cristian is Matteo's older brother.

As for Araujo, he has officially switched to Mexico, but is not in their squad for this window.

[Ngravs]

Interesting to note that Canada is selling quite a bit more tickets at Azteca compared to Honduras. Still far from being a sellout but considering we were supposed to play behind closed doors... 

[Dominic94]

9 hours ago, RS said:

Mexico’s much more of a Coke nation.

Dam auto correct. I’m talking about Pepi😂

[Ngravs]

I should also note that it doesn't appear that "almost" sold out section appear in baby blue like in some other stadiums. That said there are more tickets bought than it appears on the previous imagine I posted. For example, this picture is sections 535-539 of the Canada game that are dark blue.  

[RS]

1 minute ago, Dominic94 said:

Dam auto correct. I’m talking about Pepi😂

Yes, I understood. 

[trc2014]

12 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Our original ref has been replaced by another!

 

This is not getting enough attention beyond this forum.  This is huge.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

Just now, trc2014 said:

This is not getting enough attention beyond this forum.  This is huge.

Do you know the reason?

Did Herdman or the CSA complain?

[narduch]

Just now, trc2014 said:

This is not getting enough attention beyond this forum.  This is huge.

Is there more to the story here?

Or are we just happy that the yellow card happy idiot we had v Martinique was swapped out?