Mexico's Humiliating Copa America Loss to Chili Was Somehow Even Worse Than It Seemed Ryan Rosenblatt - FOX Sports
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Mexican fans during Saturday's match against Chile (John Hefti/USA TODAY Sports)

This Mexico team was supposed to be different. They were spectacularly talented, had the longest unbeaten streak in the world and were playing what amounted to home matches, with gigantic green-clad crowds packing every stadium they played in. Copa America Centenario was going to be El Tri's breakout tournament, as they conquered the Western Hemisphere to win their biggest trophy ever and make their statement as true contenders on the world stage.

Instead, they went out in the first round of the knockout stages, making it no different than every single one of the last six World Cups. And not only were they prematurely eliminated — they were humiliated.

Chile went ahead 2-0 at halftime after a thoroughly dominating opening 45 minutes. And little did Mexico know, that was as good as it would get for them. El Tri were torn apart in the second half, conceding five more times as they gave the ball away, failed to deal with the Chile attack and were generally demolished. At no point did they look like they even deserved to be on the same pitch as Chile, let alone have a chance to beat them.

It was a thrashing in same vein as Germany's 7-1 shellacking of Brazil at the 2014 World Cup. That was an embarrassment that wasn't supposed to be matched on the world stage, maybe ever. But here we are, as Mexico now has to deal with a team that gave them so much hope suffering the country's worst-ever defeat in a major tournament.

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