jude bellingham full kit No matter how hard managers – at present Tata Martino and in the past everyone who has held the job – have insisted, a line of thinking has persisted among Mexico fans. We’re going to win this easy. This team has nothing on us. This will be a blowout. Increasingly, it is not a blowout.

Tuesday’s 1-0 victory over Haiti in a Gold Cup semifinal booked a place for El Tri in the final of the tournament. But it also showed just how far other teams in the region continue to come. It took extra time and a Raul Jimenez goal from the penalty spot for Mexico to lock up a victory.

Haiti, a team that never had been in the Gold Cup semifinals before, pushed Mexico. Marc Collat’s sidedefended superblyover the first 90 minutes. Mexico got into the final third with messi kids football kit regularity only to be rebuffed by center backs Andrew Jean Baptiste and Jems Geffrard or their teammates who also got back into the box. There were chances for the Caribbean side as well, though they struggled to put the whole product together as they had in previous matches.