COLUMBUS: Mexico skipper Rafael Marquez scored an 89th-minute winner as the United States crashed to their first World Cup qualifying defeat on home soil in 15 years with a 2-1 loss here on Friday (Saturday in Manila).

Marquez, 37, headed home a Miguel Layun corner in the dying minutes of a pulsating battle to end the USA’s long record of dominance at Columbus’s Mapfre Stadium, where they had beaten Mexico in the past four World Cup cycles.

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