The Czechs were held 1-1 by South Africa in their second Group A game
Mexico are on six points after beating South Korea 1-0
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Two teams with very different targets meet at the Azteca in the final round of Group A action.
Mexico have six points out of six, are through as group winners, giving coach Javier Aguirre the chance to rest players.
Czech Republic, though, have blown leads in both their previous games and now need to win to have a hope of making the last 32.
Team news
Veteran frontman Jan Kuchta has not had minutes for the Czechs yet but must be in contention with Miroslav Koubek's side in need of goals.
Tomas Soucek, the West Ham midfielder, was dropped for the South Africa game and may have to settle for a place on the bench again.
Mexico's skipper Cesar Montes is available to line up in Javier Aguirre's back four after serving a one-match ban.
Gilberto Mora and Santago Gimenez are among a stack of squad players anticipating starts with Aguirre able to rest players, presumably 35-year-old striker Raul Jimenez among them.
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The stats
Both teams have scored in each of the Czech Republic's six fixtures they have played in 2026.
Mexico are unbeaten in 10 games this year with eight clean sheets.
The Czechs have taken the lead and failed to hold on for the win in their last three competitive matches, drawing two and losing once.
Mexico have not lost a match on home soil since a 1-0 defeat to Chile in 2018, a run of 26 internationals.
Prediction
Mexico and the Czech Republic clash in the Mexican capital where a low-scoring showdown is on the cards.
The Czechs are notionally in an advantageous position for a team who simply must win, in that their opponents have already won the group courtesy of the head-to-head tiebreak rule, so can make sweeping changes.
Aguirre may resist that temptation but he is clearly going to shuffle his squad and that ought to make the Central Americans accordingly weaker.
For the Czechs it is simple — win or go home.
They have looked a blunt instrument from the off, losing 2-1 from 1-0 up against South Korea, and drawing 1-1 — also from 1-0 up — against the South Africans.
They had just seven shots against South Africa and managed the situation terribly.
Maybe they will come to life when they need it most, but the Czechs have not been in great form this year, with just two wins in their last six.
And this is a team, lest we forget, who were humiliated by the Faroe Islands as recently as last October.
This could easily be a low-scoring affair so backing at least one half to be a blank could well pay off.
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Score Prediction: Czech Republic 0-1 Mexico
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