The Blue Cross striker was not contemplated in the matches against Jamaica and Costa Rica in the Octagonal Final of the CONCACAF despite his good streak as a scorer in the MX League
Santiago Giménez has twice been left out of the call of the Mexican selection in the CONCACAF qualifiers, the same number of times as Rogelio Funes Mori has started as a starter with the set of Gerardo Martino. The Blue Cross striker has not been taken into account, despite having a better time than Monterrey.
In the history, Rogelio Funes Mori boasts a goal every 182 minutes, while the Blue Cross striker scores every 215 minutes; although in the last tournament, Santi Giménez is in better moment than the one of the Striped ones. At the scoreboard he boasts four goals, plus one assist, for three brought by the Mexican naturalized Argentine.
the ‘Chaquito ‘Giménez he is in the sweetest of his nascent career, because on his account he boasts almost half of the goals the Blue Cross has in the 202 Open, four goals again. In the case of Rogelio Funes Mori, Adds three goals, but closed the last tournament with six games without scoring.
Criticism against the Mexican naturalized Argentine arose from the fact that it took six games to break the Rayados’ top scorer record, Humberto Suazo, and in the Copa Oro, his first tournament with Mexico, he barely scored three goals. , although it went as the possible “solution” to the lack of aim of the Mexican selection.
In the case of the Blue Cross player, Raúl Jiménez came in at the last minute to replace him, but he has been sidelined from the first two games of the Concacaf Octagonal Final, against Jamaica and Costa Rica. In these same commitments, Funes Mori has lost credit by missing some of the tricolor’s clearest chances and not scoring in two games.
Of the 28 convened by Gerardo Martino, Giménez it is the one that adds more goals in the present semester. Behind the ‘Chaquito’, Are Rodolfo Pizarro and Rogelio Funes Mori, Both with three goals, but the Inter Miami player also adds an assist. Sebastià Córdova appears with two goals; while with a little there are three footballers: Edson Álvarez, Carlos Rodríguez and Orbelín Pineda.
Even though Giménez is the player with more goals of the current list of the Three, el Martino ‘Nanny’ has left out of the call at the Blue Cross plant. He has opted for Rogelio Funes Mori as incumbent and by Henry Martin as substitute.
Mexico, In the first two games of the Octagonal Final of the CONCACAF, adds three goals. In the 2-1 over Jamaica the scorers were Alexis Vega and Henry Martin; while Orbelín Pineda was in charge of scoring the goal against Costa Rica.
the ‘Nanny Martino and Jorge Theiler have acknowledged that the problem of the Mexican selection is the definition and the solution could be in the stands, where it has stayed Santi Giménez, In the last calls.