The Saudi national team bid farewell to the gold cup .. and Mexico to the semi -finals

The title holder Mexico overcame Saudi Arabia 2-0 in Arizona (the United States) in the quarter-finals of the Golden Football Cup.
Alexis Vega (49) and Saudi defender Abdullah Mado (81, scored a mistake in his team’s goal).
Mexico meets in the semi-finals with Honduras, who won the penalty shootout 5-4, after they tied 1-1 in the original time.
“La Tri” seeks to win its tenth title in the continental competition.
The Saudi team failed, thus deciphering the intractable Mexico knot, because it did not win over it in seven games that brought them together, so he lost six times and tied once.
The first half came as a ritual and full of physical friction.
At the beginning of the second half, Vega opened the scoring after 4 minutes after a joint game with Raul Jimhenis, and he fired it in the range of Saudi goalkeeper Nayef Al -Aqidi.
The Mexican team settled the result in its favor by scoring the second goal when the left back, Jesus Gayardo, passed a cross by Mado, nine minutes before the end of the match.
The French coach of Saudi Arabia, Herve Ronar, admitted the right of Mexico to win by saying, “We did not provide the required level, and therefore the Mexico team deserved to win, although it was not at its best, but I congratulate them on qualifying.”
“I bear the responsibility of this loss. Sometimes the coach takes inappropriate decisions, and this is part of the nature of football. We should not lie to ourselves, we did not deserve victory because we were not the best party on the field.”
Ronar considered that the participation of “Al -Akhdar” in this tournament carried a lot of benefits, despite the early exit, “explaining,” There are great differences between the teams of Conakakaf and those we face in Asia. “
“This type of friction is necessary and we have made many gains from it, the most prominent of which is adapting to play under pressure and in a difficult atmosphere.”
The French coach pointed out that the period he spent with the players was fruitful in terms of the accumulation of experiences, but he acknowledged that the team did not succeed in appearing at its best levels during this decisive match, stressing that the focus will now turn into a good preparation of the qualified accessory to the World Cup.
Ronar stressed the need to improve offensive performance in the coming period by saying, “We have to work better in the offensive part, because we need a real development at this level.”