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By CARLOS RODRIGUEZ<\/strong> AP Sports Writer<\/p>\n

MEXICO CITY \u2014 Juli\u00e1n Qui\u00f1ones and Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez scored goals in a nine-minute span in the first half and Mexico defeated Ecuador, 2-0, on Tuesday night to break a 40-year drought without a win in the knockout stage and progressed to the World Cup\u2019s Round of 16.<\/p>\n

Qui\u00f1ones opened the scoring in the 22nd minute while Jim\u00e9nez added a strike in the 31st minute for the Mexicans, who had not won a knockout-stage match since defeating Bulgaria in the Round of 16 when they hosted the tournament in 1986.<\/p>\n

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Mexico subsequently lost seven consecutive times at that same stage in the 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 World Cups.<\/p>\n

In Qatar 2022, they were eliminated in the group stage for the first time since Argentina \u201978.<\/p>\n

Mexico will play another home match on Sunday against the winner of Wednesday\u2019s match between England and Congo.<\/p>\n

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The match started one hour after the original scheduled time due to a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n

It was the second match of the tournament affected by weather. A storm during the France-Iraq match in Philadelphia on June 22 caused a 2-hour, 11-minute suspension at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n

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More to come on this story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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