MEXICO-COSTA RICA TV: Telemundo (live), 12:30 pm ET. Referee: Carlos Batres (GUA). STANDINGS: Mexico, tied for 2nd in Hexagonal on goal difference (1 win, 1 loss, 1 tie, 5 goals for, 3 goals against, 4 points); Costa Rica, tied for 2nd in Hexagonal on goal difference (1 win, 1 loss, 1 tie, 5 goals for, 3 goals against, 4 points). LOSING STREAK: Mexico is entering its match against Costa Rica with a four-game losing streak, having fallen to England in a friendly and Australia, South Korea and France at the Confederations Cup by a margin of 12-1. RECALLED: Mexican coach Enrique Meza has recalled striker Luis Hernandez from MLS’s Los Angeles Galaxy, former Galaxy and Chicago Fire keeper Jorge Campos and Spanish-based midfielder Gerardo Torrado. WAR OF WORDS: Mexican-based Tico Hernan Medford started a war of words when he claimed Mexico was no longer the “giant” it used to be. Responded Mexican defender Rafael Marquez, “We’ll do our speaking on the field and not off it.” COUNTERATTACK.: Costa Rica has Wilmer Lopez back after missing the U.S. game in April with an injury. The Ticos are expected to count on Lopez to trigger their counterattack, relying upon speedsters Paulo Wanchope and Steven Bryce to lead the attack. DISINTEREST: Only 15,000 tickets have been sold as of Thursday for the game at Azteca Stadium. The big soccer story in Mexico is Cruz Azul, which has reached the final of the Libertadores Cup. AZTECA INVINCIBILITY: Mexico hasn’t lost at Azteca Stadium in 20 years. It has 59 wins, 28 ties and only five losses since its first game in the Mexico City stadium in 1967. HISTORY: Mexico is unbeaten against Costa Rica at home in World Cup qualifying. Mexico won four encounters — 2-0 (1957), 4-1 (1961), 1-0 (1965) and 4-0 (1992) — before tying Costa Rica, 3-3, in 1997. QUOTABLE: “I feel I have a commitment to myself and my country. I’m trying to do my best. It’s not as if I have suddenly become a fool since I arrived from Toluca.” (Meza, who won three straight Torneo Verano titles at Toluca but has only one win in his last 12 games with Mexico.) TRINIDAD & TOBAGO-HONDURAS TV: Univision (live), 4 pm ET. Referee: Mauricio Navarro (Canada). STANDINGS: Trinidad & Tobago, 6th in Hexagonal (0 wins, 2 losses, 1 tie, 1 goal for, 5 goals against, 1 point); Honduras, 5th in Hexagonal (0 wins, 1 loss, 2 ties, 4 goals for, 5 goals against, 2 points). T&T TURMOIL: Star Dwight Yorke quit the Soca Warriors Thursday after being suspended for the Honduras game. The dispute centered around his failure to travel with the Warriors to Panama, where they played a club team and Panama’s national team in warmups June 8 and 10. Yorke made his decision after his appeal of Coach Ian Porterfield’s decision to the Trinidad & Tobago federation was rejected. Defender Anthony Rougier was also suspended for the Honduras game. HISTORY: Trinidad & Tobago has never beaten Honduras in three meetings in World Cup qualifying. The Catrachos won, 2-1, in the opening game of the CONCACAF Hexagonal in 1973. Trinidad & Tobago and Honduras played to 0-0 and 1-1 ties in the second round in 1988. T&T advanced on the away goal. CATRACHO LINEUP: Honduras paid for Coach Ramon Maradiaga’s decision to rest several key players for the UNCAF Cup it hosted. The Catrachos failed to reach the final round and were eliminated from the 2002 Gold Cup. Maradiaga’s lineup for the Trinidad & Tobago should be Noel Valladares or Junior Morales in goal; Samuel Caballero, Ninrod Medina and Reynaldo Clavasquin in the back; Ivan Guerrero and Milton Reyes on the outside; Jose Luis Pineda, Marco Mejia and Amado Guevara in midfield; and Carlos Pavon up front with Juan Manuel Carcamo, David Suazo or Tyson Nunez.