The Road to Levi Stadium
Mexico was able to secure a semi victory by becoming the leader of their group with their draw against an ambitious Venezuela. Besides my anger with regards to coaching decisions on the part of the Mexican staff which I will get to shortly, Venezuela started the match by punching Mexico in the mouth. A goal in the first 10 minutes set the tone that Venezuela was not going to hand over the number one slot. They came in ready to play while Mexico came in with an equal opportunity type of mentality as Juan Carlos Osorio decided to make yet another lineup change. This time the line up lacked any tactical impression.
It seemed that Mr. Juan decided to put names in a hat and choose his starting eleven, then rolled dice to choose their positions. It’s really a backward way of thinking if you ask me. I can see that he wanted to prove points that no one is safe in Mexico. Or that everyone will get an opportunity to play and prove their worth. Maybe he thought it was a friendly and believed he had more than three subs.
Whatever the reasons are it was a high risk no reward decision. Something that deserves this type of scrutiny. I mean it wasn’t a game that meant nothing. It wasn’t a game that had no purpose. In the logical if then statement it doesn’t make sense Juan! Because what happens now is, the team losses key playing time to continue their momentum and continue to work in their synchronization.
Even I know the one thing you don’t do is play most of the bench and continue to switch out the goalies and the formation. Juan is playing with fire in his coaching tactics and its maybe because he has a perfect record thus far. But what he has failed to realize is that he has damaged our chemistry and the effects will surely show in the game against Chile. If Chile finds a way to capitalize Mexico will surely get kicked off the Copa America Island.
