Dubai: Tournament favourites and joint three-time record winners Brazil crashed out of the Fifa Under 17 World Cup after a 11-10 penalty shoot-out defeat to defending champions Mexico in the quarter-finals of the event at Rashid Stadium on Friday.

Mexico keeper Raul Gudino denied Mosquito after both sides were still inseparable after 12 rounds of penalties, before Alejandro Diaz scored the winner.

The game had ended 1-1 in normal time after Brazil’s Nathan cancelled out Ivan Ochoa’s 80th minute opener with five minutes to spare.

Ochoa should have put Mexico ahead before the break after being put through onside, but his resultant shot came back off the keeper’s knee. Brazil’s Indio then saw his free kick hit the crossbar before Caio also had an effort shave the woodwork.

Brazil had another chance go begging on the hour when Danilo’s header went fractionally wide from a corner. But that opportunity only increased Mexico’s urgency with Alejandro Diaz first seeing his header go wide, before Ochoa tapped Ulises Rivas’ free kick in at the back post with ten minutes to spare after a touch on from Diaz.

Brazil equalised five minutes later after Nathan first had a shot from a cross come back off the defence, before he fired a volley back into the top corner from the follow-up. Leo Pereira’s header was then tipped over the crossbar as Brazil searched for a late winner in vain, before the game went to penalties.

Brazil coach Alexandre Gallo, who was without suspended tournament top scorer Boshilia and Gustavo for this game, had ominously voiced his eagerness to avoid a penalty shoot-out and get the match over inside 90 minutes in Thursday’s prematch conference.

His fears of a tight and cagey encounter were well founded and based upon Mexico’s better head-to-head record against the Brazilians after winning two of their total three previous Fifa Under 17 World Cup encounters.

Likewise, Mexico coach Raul Gutierrez’s claims of greater resilience in the prematch conference were also justified, as El Tricolor took on a whole new character to the side that had collapsed to a 6-1 defeat to Nigeria in the opening game.

Mexico recovered from that opening loss with 3-1 and 1-0 wins over Iraq and Sweden to finish second in Group F, before beating Italy 2-0 in the second round.

They will now play the winner of the Argentina and Ivory Coast quarter-final, which is to be played in Sharjah on Saturday.