Brazil and Mexico meet in the World Cup round of 16 in what is sure to be an entertaining matchup of two teams that like to run.
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How to watch: In the U.S., Fox and Telemundo have the broadcast at 10 a.m. Eastern, but you can stream it here.
Brazil vs. Mexico: The History
Brazil and Mexico have played four previous matches at the World Cup. Brazil is 3-0-1 in them, and has outscored Mexico by 11-0.
Mexico’s Momentum
Mexico is looking to avoid its seventh straight second-round exit from the World Cup. But it has to wonder if it lost its momentum in its collapse against Sweden. This is the fourth game in two weeks for each team, and the weekend games showed the heavy legs starting to show up — especially in the two games that went to extra time.
Brazil vs. Mexico Top Story Lines
• Brazil and Mexico surely have seen the papers and the highlights from the weekend’s matches by now. For Brazil, which thinks it can wins the tournament, that will mean that contenders keep going out, and they had best show up ready to be Brazil. For Mexico, it means anything can happen, and that legacy teams (Argentina, Spain, maybe even, oh, I don’t know, Brazil) aren’t owed anything.
• The winner of today’s match gets the Belgium-Japan winner on Saturday in Samara. France or Uruguay looms after that.
• Mexico did everything right for two games to avoid Brazil. Then it got crushed by Sweden in its third game, finished second in its group, and stumbled right into the matchup it had hoped to avoid. Oops.
• Mexico, for all its success against Germany on the opening weekend, has only three goals in three games — one fewer than it has allowed. Hirving Lozano, Carlos Vela and Javier Hernandez each have one.
• Philippe Coutinho leads Brazil with two goals. Neymar only has one.
• Brazil will be without Douglas Costa and maybe Marcelo as well. Brazil’s coach, Tite, said Filipe Luis, who replaced Marcelo after 10 minutes against Serbia, will start in his place against Brazil. The temperature in Samara played a role in the decision: it is expected to be about 95 degrees at kickoff. “We are not going to pay the price with health,” Tite said.
Interactive Feature
Spot the Ball
We’ve pulled some photos from group stage games and made one very important change — we removed the ball. See if you can guess where it was.
Some Pregame Reading
• Everyone starts with Neymar when they talk about Brazil. But they really ought to be looking a few strides behind him, at Philippe Coutinho.
• Still can’t believe Russia’s in the quarterfinals? Neither can we.
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