Six goals in the first half pro­pelled Mex­i­co to a com­mand­ing 6-0 vic­to­ry against T&T Women War­riors in Group A of League A of the Con­ca­caf Road to W Gold Cup on Tues­day night at the Es­ta­dio Hi­dal­go in Pachu­ca, Mex­i­co on Tues­day night.

With the win, Mex­i­co now sits in first place in the group with six points through two match­es, while T&T re­main on ze­ro points af­ter one game, the same as Puer­to Ri­co, the third team in the group.

Mex­i­co wast­ed no time in get­ting on the score­board, as Maria Sanchez scored for the sec­ond game in a row by stab­bing home a cross from Scar­lett Cam­beros be­fore the three minute mark for a 1-0 lead.

Gre­ta Es­pinoza quick­ly dou­bled the ad­van­tage to 2-0 in the tenth minute when T&T goal­keep­er Kimi­ka Forbes spilled a long-range shot, al­low­ing Es­pinoza to stroke home the re­bound.

Mex­i­co then made it 3-0 in the 19th minute with a sparkling goal in tran­si­tion that saw Ali­cia Cer­vantes pol­ish off the coun­ter­at­tack with a right-foot­ed laser in­to the net.

A long-dis­tance ef­fort from Alex­ia Del­ga­do that rolled off the fin­ger­tips of Forbes and in­to goal ex­tend­ed it to 4-0 in the 25th minute, fol­lowed by Char­lyn Cor­ral turn­ing in a blocked shot in the 39th minute for a 5-0 lead.

Cor­ral was in­stru­men­tal again in the 42nd minute send­ing in a cross that al­lowed that was tapped home by Cer­vantes to stretch it to 6-0.

With the six-goal ad­van­tage, Mex­i­co could play to their lik­ing and pa­tient­ly wait to carve out any fur­ther scor­ing chances, how­ev­er, the T&T de­fence held firm in the sec­ond 45, lead­ing to the 6-0 fi­nal.

The loss stretched the T&T na­tion­al women’s team win­less to five match­es, with their last win be­ing a 13-0 slaugh­ter­ing of the Turks and Caicos dur­ing the ear­ly stages of the 2022 Gold Cup qual­i­fiers on April 9. 2022.

The T&T women will have a chance at re­demp­tion when they wel­come Mex­i­co to Port-of-Spain on Oc­to­ber 27 be­fore fac­ing Puer­to Ri­co (away) on De­cem­ber 1 and then at home on De­cem­ber 5. Puer­to Ri­co was beat­en 2-1 by Mex­i­co last Fri­day in Mex­i­co.

Af­ter 90 group stage match­es, which in­clude home and away play with­in each League and Group, the top fin­ish­ers in each of the League A groups (three teams) will qual­i­fy for the 2024 W Gold Cup Group stage.

The sec­ond-place fin­ish­ers in each of the League A groups (three teams) and the first-place fin­ish­ers in each of the League B groups (three teams) will ad­vance to the 2024 W Gold Cup pre­lim­i­nar­ies.