Mexico stunned defending champions Germany 1-0 in their World Cup 2018 opening game. The win gives Mexico three points and puts them in a golden spot to move on, while Germany now can't afford another slip up with South Korea and Sweden to come. Joachim Loew’s side now have a tougher task to qualify for the knockout stages.
Making his World Cup debut, Hirving Lozano scored Mexico’s winning goal in the 35th minute. From a counter attack, Lozano picked-up a pass from Javier Hernandez inside the penalty area, he dummied Mesut Ozil and fired past Manuel Neuer from 10 yards.
After the goal, Germany responded with continuous attacks inside Mexico's area. Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa was huge in goal for El Tri as well, making save after save to keep the mighty Germans out. He had to deny Toni Kroos’ effort onto the crossbar, before Julian Brandt failed to score from a good position. Mexico held-on bravely to record the biggest upset in Russia this year.
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