Mexico make a tidy start

Mexico 2-0 South Africa. No fuss, no scare, just the sort of result you want when the tournament's barely warmed up. Two clear goals, a clean sheet, three points in the bag.

That puts Mexico in charge of Group A early doors. South Africa, meanwhile, have it all to do — a blank and a two-goal hole to climb out of before the group's done.

Mexico have always been a side that turns up. Hugo Sánchez and those overhead kicks, the '86 quarter-final run on home soil, that green shirt at every World Cup going. Draft them at their best and see if you can finally get them past the round nobody can seem to get them past.