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Mexico finally get their well-deserved lead

Mexico have been robbed repeatedly. They've scored two goals that were disallowed for offside, and neither was actually offside. Giovani dos Santos was fouled in the box, but there was no call.

After an hour, they finally scored.

Oribe Peralta was the man who hit the back of the net, doing what he does best -- cleaning up the garbage and scoring a poacher's effort. The hard work was done by Giovani dos Santos, who is really having the worst day. He scored both wrongly disallowed goals and drew the non-penalty that should have been a penalty. But this time around, at least he got to contribute to a goal.

This game will almost certainly change considerably now that Mexico are in the lead. Cameroon have been defending deep and doing very little attacking all match. They'll have to change what they're doing in order to get back in this game, and realistically, they're screwed in the group unless they score twice.

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