Chicharito had to wait patiently on the bench until the second half as his Mexico teammates won over Chile in an overnight friendly.
The West Ham striker was a second half substitute in the fixture at the Qualcomm Stadium. Mexico’s forward line was instead led by Wolves’ Raul Jimenez, who opened the goalscoring with a penalty, which he tucked away on 52 minutes. A quick-fire double from the highly-rated Hirving Lozano just 12 minutes later had the game wrapped up in Mexico’s favour.
Chile were able to find a consolation thanks to Nicolas Castillo’s goal 20 minutes from time, with Chicharito entering the fray on 75 minutes.
It was a brief run-out for the 30-year-old, but Chicharito will have another opportunity to pull on the Mexico shirt when his nation play Paraguay and fellow teammate Fabian Balbuena in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Fabian Balbuena was on the wrong end of a 1-0 scoreline on Friday evening, losing 1-0 to Peru.
