Mexico Vs Nigeria - Complete Match report

Mexico Vs Nigeria

  

Javier Hernández 70'Javier Hernández 21' Vs Ideye Brown 29' PEN• John Ogu 40'

Mexico and Nigeria played out a 2-2 draw at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, with Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez scoring twice for Josi Manuel de la Torre's side.
Hernandez converted Pablo Barrera's cross before the winger saw red after he handled on the line. Ideye Brown tucked away the resulting spot kick before John Ogu put Nigeria ahead after 40 minutes. However Mexico fought back and Hernandez equalised after 70 minutes.
Mexico started strongly, and, after 21 minutes, Barrera found an....
unmarked Hernandez who from eight yards out directed the ball into the corner of the net.
Barrera's fortunes soon took a turn for the worse when he was shown a straight red card with Brown smashing his penalty into the bottom right hand corner past Jose de Jesus Corona.
Aldo De Nigris forced a decent save from Austin Ejide six minutes before the break and that stopped proved vital as Nigeria went straight up the other end and took the lead when Efe Ambrose's cross from the right was deflected home by Ogu.
Hernandez netted his second of the game with 20 minutes left, converting Carlos Salcido's cross from close range after once again evading his marker.

Scoring Summary

Mex 2 - Nigeria 2

Match Stats

 Mexico  - Nigeria

21(6)	Shots (on goal)	11(3)
7	Fouls	11
5	Corner kicks	1
1	Offsides	1
47%	Time of Possession	53%
0	Yellow Cards	3
1	Red Cards	0
1	Saves	4

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Mexico.............                   
                              
 12 Jose de Jesus Corona
2 Francisco Rodríguez
3 Carlos Salcido
4 Diego Reyes
13 Severo Meza
6 Gerardo Torrado
7 Pablo Barrera
17 Jesús Eduardo Zavala
18 Andrés Guardado
9 Aldo De Nigris
14 Javier Hernández

Substitutes                                                                
1 Guillermo Ochoa
23 Alfredo Talavera
15 Héctor Moreno
20 Jorge Torres
21 Hiram Ricardo Mier Alanís
22 Gerardo Flores
5 Jesús Antonio Molina
8 Angel Reyna Martinez
11 Javier Aquino Carmona
16 Hector Herrera Rubio
19 Raúl Jiménez

Substitutions
Gerardo Flores for Francisco Rodríguez (45')
Hector Herrera Rubio for Gerardo Torrado (45')
Hiram Ricardo Mier Alanís for Aldo De Nigris (45')
Angel Reyna Martinez for Andrés Guardado (64')
Raúl Jiménez for Javier Hernández (73')
Javier Aquino Carmona for Severo Meza (85')

Red Cards
Pablo Barrera (27') 
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Nigeria..............

Austin Ejide 16
Godfrey Oboabona 2
Elderson 3
Efe Ambrose 5
Kenneth Omeruo 22
John Ogu 4
Joseph Akpala 9
Nnamdi Oduamadi 11
Ogenyi Onazi 17
Sunday Mbah 19
Ideye Brown 8

Subsititution

Vincent Enyeama for Austin Ejide (45')
Anthony Ujah for Joseph Akpala (51')
Michel Babatunde for Ideye Brown (52')
Emeka Eze for John Ogu (69')
Obinna Nwachukwu for Nnamdi Oduamadi (73')

Yellow Cards
Ogenyi Onazi (56')
Kenneth Omeruo (81')
Emeka Eze (86')

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