EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS 4) \u2014 Mexican fans across the world, including in El Paso, are dancing the night away as El Tri hangs on to defeat South Korea 1-0 in their second match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. \\<\/p>\n
With this victory, Mexico is now on six points and claims top spot in Group A. Mexico also becomes the first team to clinch a berth in the knockout stages. South Korea remains in second place on three points, ahead of South Africa and Czechia. <\/p>\n
The best chance of the first half came to Korean captain Son Heung-Min. Son lobbed Mexican goalkeeper Raul Rangel, but Edson Alvarez cleared it off the line with a bicycle kick. The first half ended scoreless. In the 50th minute, Julian Quinones sent a cross into the box and it was deflected up in the air. Korean goalkeeper Kim Seung-Gyu came to claim it, but he dropped the ball. It fell to Luis Romo, who poked it into the net to give Mexico a 1-0 lead. The Mexicans were hanging on during the final minutes of the match. In the 87th minute, Cho Gue-Sung headed the ball towards goal at the back post, but Rangel came up with a huge double save. <\/p>\n
Mexico fans at Cerveceria 19 in West El Paso began to cheer and dance after the final whistle. <\/p>\n
Mexico has locked in the top spot in Group A. In the Round of 32 they will face the third place team from Groups C, E, F, H or I. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Mexico will wrap up group play against Czechia and South Korea will take on South Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS 4) \u2014 Mexican fans across the world, including in El Paso, are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-343800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}