Match Preview

Mexico go into tomorrow’s crunch clash with Ecuador with no room for error if they wish to advance to the quarter-finals of the Copa America.

Jaime Lozano’s men were surprisingly beaten 1-0 by Venezuela in their last outing – a result which means they have to beat Ecuador to stand any chance of going through. Ecuador sit second in Group B but with a better goal difference than third-placed Mexico.

Mexico have gone out at the group stage at three of the last four Copas.

Lozano felt there were lots of positives in the defeat to Venezuela. He said: “Now it’s up to us and we just talked about it in the locker room. The next game will put us in the next round, we are hurt now, but playing like this, it’s going to be hard for us to lose another game.

“We have to take good out of this and move on. There’s just a few days ahead and we want to get back to play again, when things are hard it’s when we play our best.”

The equation for Ecuador is simple: a point and they are through.