BOSTON – The Mexican National Team faces its fourth and final World Cup preparation match on Friday night when they go up against Portugal exactly one week before their World Cup debut against Cameroon.
The match is scheduled for Friday June 6th at 9:00pm local time (6:00pm pacific) from the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts the home of NFL's New England Patriots.
Mexico has had three World Cup preparation matches since announcing the final 23-man squad. They have picked up wins against Israel and Ecuador 2-0 and 3-1 respectfully. On the third and most recent match Mexico suffered an eye opening 1-0 loss to Bosnia.
During the past three matches the Mexican manager Miguel "Piojo" Herrera has been experimenting changing his lineups and formations. But it was always expected that by the time the fourth match came along that we would see what could possibly be the starting lineup in Brazil against Cameroon.
During Thursday's press conference the manager named the long awaited lineup. By the looks of it Jesus Corona won the battle for the goalkeeping position as he was given the nod to start against Portugal. And in the attack it all looks like it will be Giovani Dos Santos partnering up with Oribe Peralta.
Portugal will surely be a tough test for El Tri but the Europeans will be without their biggest star Cristiano Ronaldo who is still trying to rest up and recover from a thigh injury in time for the World Cup.
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