World Cup co-hosts Mexico were beaten 4-2 by Switzerland in a friendly at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday, leaving coach Javier Aguirre far from happy.

El Tri were facing the Swiss as part of their warm-up for this month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup but their frailties were exposed by Murat Yakin’s team.

“When you concede four goals, you have to hang your head and go home to train,” said Aguirre,

“We made a lot of mistakes, both collectively and individually, and when you do that against teams of this caliber, you get punished,’ he added.

Switzerland took the lead in the 20th minute when Ricardo Rodriguez sent a deep pass to Breel Embolo, who fired past goalkeeper Raul Rangel.

Swiss keeper Gregor Kobel denied Mexico in the 29th minute when he blocked a point-blank shot from Santiago Gimenez wi

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