Mexico v England - Match Day Blog

 

England make their way to the later stages of the world cup after a magnificent Kane comeback against Congo.

 

England’s defensive vulnerabilities were more than revealed in that game with Djed Spence getting cooked every time on the wing by Cipenga.

 

Mexico have the co host edge, the home ground, the altitude and the ability to cope better with humidity than England in their favour in this fixture…but England do have arguably one of the best strikers in the world in the form of his life and in his prime in their favour.

 

I think we are looking at a classic both teams to score scenario in this one Mexico are likely to expose England’s backline once again whilst England are likely to get to the scoresheet.

 

If England’s other players can turn up and turn on the style they could easily win this one but the last few matches it hasn’t looked like the whole squad is firing and a draw could be the most likely outcome in normal time.

 

Ideally I’d want to see the same line up as against Congo but with Djed Spence possibly being sacrificed for either a different more attacking formation or for Reece James return from injury, it would be nice to see England’s other forwards get a bit of game time playing alongside Kane too.

 

Mexico have Jimenez who is scoring but is now 35 and not as quick as he once was that being said he can still score here if not marked out of the game effectively whilst another player to keep an eye on for Mexico is Alvarado who has been creating big chances and putting in a shift in the last two matches for Mexico.

 

My top pick for this game is both teams to score if you wanted to go for goal scorers the obvious choices are Kane and Jimenez but a more out there pick is O’Reilly who gets the odd header away from set pieces and has already proved he knows how to score whilst at Man City the odds are a lot higher on him for a reason but him to score at anytime could pay.