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Brian Gutierrez with the corner kick in, and it finds its way to Jorge Sanchez.

Brian Gutierrez in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, and this ball kind of stumbles to Jorge Sanchez, the right back, and it's 1-0 Mexico in the 19th minute.

It really is.

I don't know about you, Shaq, but I don't know how much you can do there.

Huh.

I think the coach knows what he wants out of the group, and he plays a very pragmatic role.

And this is who Javier El Vasco Aguirre is.

This is the third time he's been involved with the Mexican national team, third cycle, and all of his teams have been pragmatic, defend first, and we'll take our chances.

That's not necessarily been the Mexico way.

And it's not exactly been how Mexican fans want them to play.

And in a game against a top five team,

team to win the World Cup, I think Portugal has a very good shot of winning the World Cup because of that player pool.

They held them to a scoreless draw in Estadio Azteca, and yet they were booed after the game.

And the last 15, 20 minutes, every touch that Portugal had was an ole, ole in Portugal's favor.

And their goalkeeper was having the homophobic chant

yelled at him by his own fans.

There is a discontent right now with the fan base and the national team, and it stems from much more than what's actually going on on the field.

That's part of it.

They wish their team would play a different brand, although I don't understand how securing a result like that against a team that is a legitimate threat to win the World Cup is a bad thing.

But this national team right now