Mexico Coach Laments His Side's Loss To Nigeria

The El Tri of Mexico head coach Mario Arteaga has disclosed that his 2-4 loss to Nigeria was his side's toughest game at the ongoing FIFA U17 world cup in Chile. 

Magana opened scoring for the Mexicans but Nigeria's captain responded with a well crafted free kick to level things up between both sides and eventually won the game after 90 minutes in the second semi final.

Arteaga said that his plans was to reach the final but Amunike and his boys stopped him from reaching his goal.

"We know that it would be a tough game, the toughest game in this World Cup. Both teams had chances. Unfortunately we didn’t score, Nigeria did. This was the difference. But that is football. After our equaliser we thought we controlled the game but then Nigeria scored surprisingly. We wanted to reach the final but we failed. Of course the team is sad but we have to focus now on the third place match," 

Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigeria coach said: "It was a difficult match in which both teams did theirbest. We give credit to Mexico because of their performance and itslevel of play. We are happy to be in the final and have the chance to defend the world title. Mali is a good team, Africa's champion. This isgoing to be an interesting challenge,"