video goals Mexico 2-0 Honduras Concacaf Gold Cup highlights
Mexico has outscored its five Gold Mexico 2-0 Honduras video goals opponents by an aggregate score of 18-2, but Wednesday's game wasn't easy. Both teams played feisty, physical defence and were whistled for 22 fouls apiece.
Honduras earned seven yellow cards and Mexico got three.
"We knew it would be tough," Mexican coach Jose Manuel de La Torre said. "I think our team struggled to find the spaces we were looking for, sometimes because of us being imprecise but also because of the rival. But little by little we found them."
Mexico defeated Honduras with two overtime goals to defeat the Central American team 2-0 Wednesday night in Houston.
Mexico started as the more aggressive team in the first half but could not convert on its opportunities up top.
Pablo Barrera assisted on both goals in overtime, when Honduras seemed to run out of energy.
De Nigris headed the first past Honduran goalkeeper Orlin Vallecillo in the third minute of the extra period, drawing roars from the heavily pro-Mexico crowd at Reliant Stadium.
The baby-faced "Chicharito," already a huge star in Mexico, then triggered the loudest cheer of the night when he used his right hip cop oro 2011 final Live Stream redirect Barrera's corner kick in the ninth minute of overtime. Hernandez yanked on his jersey and kissed the team logo before his teammates mobbed him in the corner of the field.
The 23-year-old Hernandez leads the tournament with seven goals, the second-most ever in a single Gold Cup. Mexico's Luis Roberto Alves scored 11 in 1993.
Honduran coach Luis Fernando Suarez acknowledged that his team wore down in the extra period.
"We were always looking to attack," he said. "We need time to become stronger. It's not just 90 minutes, but 120 minutes."
The Mexicans, meanwhile, continued to roll through the tournament, despite a retooled roster.
Five players — goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, defenders Francisco Rodriguez and Edgar Duenas, and midfielders Christian Bermudez and Antonio Naelson -- were suspended before the tournament for positive tests for clenbuterol.
Honduras adapted as Concacaf Gold Cup 2011 finals Live Stream game progressed to play the counterattack as Mexico had control of the match, resulting in a battle in midfield.
Although the game was played at a quick pace, there were few real threats to either goal for the majority of the match.
In the 66th minute Pablo Barrera Gold Cup 2011 got Mexico the lead on a long distance shot that was superbly blocked by Noel Valladares.In the 88th minute Giovani Dos Santos got a ball alone in front of Valladares but he inexplicably kicked it wide.
The match ended tied 0-0 in regulation, leading to two extra periods.
Three minutes Concacaf Gold Cup finals 2011 Live extra time, in the 93rd minute, Aldo De Nigris headed a Pablo Barrera corner into the back of the net to give Mexico the 1-0 lead. In the 99th minute, Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez extended the lead after putting an Aldo De Nigris header into the net with his thigh.
There were eight yellow cards as the match became tense at times: six for Honduras and two for Mexico. Honduran Roger Espinoza was ejected with two yellow cards in the 115th minute.
