A few minutes later, fellow central midfielder and captain Pável Pardo had another opportunity, a direct shot from the corner to force Argentine goalkeeper Germán Lux into making a save.
During the end of the first half, Argentina also started producing chances, such as central forward Luciano Figueroa missing out on a cross by central midfielder Juan Román Riquelme, as well as Riquelme himself having his shot over inside the goal, and Javier Saviola assisting Juan Pablo Sorín after getting past the Mexican defence, with Sorín nearly gifting Argentina and the match its opening goal, having attempted to chip past Mexican goalkeeper Oswaldo Sánchez, before centre-back Gonzalo Pineda narrowly rescued off the line.
The first goal of the match came for Mexico in the 104th minute, with left-back Carlos Salcido scoring after the ball had hit centre-back Fabricio Coloccini.
Argentina scored all of their six penalties, with right-back Ricardo Osorio missing his spot kick after it was saved by Lux.
[2] Man of the Match: Javier Zanetti (Argentina)[3] Assistant referees: Alessandro Griselli (Italy) Cristiano Copelli (Italy) Fourth official: Matthew Breeze (Australia) Man of the Match: Michael Ballack (Germany)[4] Assistant referees: Matthew Cream (Australia) Jim Ouliaris (Australia) Fourth official: Carlos Chandía (Chile) The 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup Final was held at Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany on 29 June 2005.