First match of the day was an entertaining affair, with both teams in an attacking mood in the beautiful sunny summer morning. The young Mexicans seemed slightly tired from their hard fought battle the day before against the USA and did not show their usual speed in the opening stages of the game, and Brazil were first on the scoreboard in the 20th minute by Matheus Borges on the follow-up of a penalty-corner initially stopped by Gerardo Orozco in the Mexican goal.

Matheus Borges added a second penalty-corner in the 28th minute. Mexico had a late surge but Brazil were comfortably in the driving seat going into the break (2-0).

After a strong half-time talk, Mexico started second period much faster and Francisco Aguilar brought them back within one goal in the 48th minute on penalty-corner. Their momentum was however slowed down by two, then three, yellow cards, certainly not something that you want when the players remaining on the pitch already have tired legs… Brazil took advantage of their numerical superiority to regain control of play, but they were denied multiple time by Gerardo Orozco in the Mexican goal, giving the chance to Francisco Aguilar to tie the score with five minutes to go in the match, setting up the stage for a wild end of match.

Brazil had a chance on penalty-corner, but Francisco Aguilar scored a late penalty-corner (his 3rd of the match) to complete the Mexican come-back, pushing them in the match for 5th place on Saturday. Brazil were dejected to have dropped a 2-goal lead and miss their pre-tournament objective to finish in the top six in this competition.