Mexico continue the “curse of the final friendly”

Photo by Mario Castillo/LatinContent via Getty ImagesMexico will go to the 2022 World Cup on the back of a 2-1 loss to Sweden. It’s a worrying situation for Mexico with a streak of 7 consecutive World Cups qualifying to the Round of 16 in major jeopardy because of their bad results. Yet in a curious way, Mexico’s great streak (which only Brazil having qualified to the knockout phase in those same number of World Cups) has been accompanied with a bad result in the last friendly match played leading up to the World Cups. In fact, Mexico will be going for a third straight World Cup with a loss in the final preparation match and in most of the series it has only been a team coached by Javier Aguirre that has changed things around after that first match.

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