Mexico vs the USA: the facts you need to know before watching the Concacaf classic

The time for the rematch came for the Mexican football team against the United States. After the series of three consecutive defeats suffered by Gerardo “Tata” Martino's team they face again, but now at Estadio Azteca, where the Tri have never lost to their neighbor to the north in official matches.

To learn a little more about this strong rivalry, classified as the Concacaf classic, we present you the facts you should know about this confrontation.

- The winner of the Mexico vs United States match secures his place for the 2022 Qatar World Cup if Panama loses to Honduras and Costa Rica loses or draws with Canada.

-The United States did not qualify Russia 2018 after seven consecutive World Cups, while Mexico has held all the rankings since 1994, seven in a row.

-Canada has only qualified for one World Cup, it was in Mexico 1986.

- In the historical series Mexico is ahead of the United States with 36 wins, 15 draws and 22 losses, with 146 goals in favor and 86 against.

-Mexico has an unbeaten streak at home of 14 games in World Cup Qualifiers, with 10 wins and 4 draws. The most recent defeat was against Honduras in 2013 at Estadio Azteca.

-Mexico has had three consecutive games without receiving a goal at home in the Playoffs and has also achieved it in 14 of its last 20 matches.

-Mexico has never lost a World Cup qualifying game against the United States at home (8 wins, 3 draws), with 24 goals in favor and 4 against.

- Guillermo Ochoa is unbeaten in the last two games of El Tri, the last time he hit three games without a goal in his goal was in 2015 against Honduras, Cuba and Guatemala.

-The United States has never won an official match at Azteca, they only won it in a friendly in 2012.

-The United States has never won Mexico four games in a row, but has won the last three matches against Mexico in any type of competition, which ties its longest positive streak it had already achieved in 2000-01 and 2005-07. It is also the longest streak of the rivalry since Mexico won three in a row between 2009 and 2011.

- The United States has two wins in Mexican territory, but not in qualifying and they were in 1908 and 2012 (both 1-0).

- The United States has only won 5 away points at the Octagonal, the third worst harvest among all participating teams.

-The streak of three straight away games without winning is the worst for the United States since 2017-18.

- Mexico is the team that Christian Pulisic has faced the most in his career: 6 times and has scored them two goals. The only team that scored the most goals is Trinidad and Tobago with 4 in 4 games.

- Since 1990, 11 players from the United States have scored more than one goal for Mexico, those leading the score are Landon Donovan (6) and Michael Bradley (5).

— Pulisic is looking to be the second player in U.S. history to score Mexico in three straight games, before Alexander Rae did from September 12 to 26, 1937.

— Brenden Aaronson, who will not play Mexico due to injury, was the only one who had participated in every Octagonal match for the United States.