Mexico's Jesus Manuel "Tecatito" Corona missed shot after shot on Monday night with El Tri trailing Venezuela by a goal.

That didn't stop the 23-year-old from taking one more late in the game.

And this time he scored to give Mexico a 1-1 tie and first place in Group C of Copa America.

It was in the 80th minute when Tecatito took on five defenders before firing off a shot from 10 yards to tie it and thrill the overwhelmingly pro-Mexico crowd.

Tecatito said there was no grand plan to his goal, that it was improvisation.

By winning their group, El Tri avoids a quarterfinal matchup with Lionel Messi and tournament favorite Argentina. They're likely headed for an easier matchup with Chile in the knockout round, leaving Venezuela to face mighty Argentina.

Mexico defeated Uruguay 3-1 before downing Jamaica 2-0 to earn a berth in the quarterfinals.

Abel Hernandez scored in the first half, Mathias Corujo added a late breakaway goal and Uruguay beat Jamaica 3-0 on Monday night to snap a five-game Copa America winless streak.

Both teams were ruled out of contention for the knockout stages after loses in their first two games.Mexico clinched Group C and advanced to the quarterfinals after tying Venezuela 1-1 Monday.

Uruguay took its first lead of the 2016 tournament in the 21st minute. Nicolas Lodeiro slid a through ball between two defenders and Hernandez powered a shot into the top of the goal. It was just Uruguay's second goal of the tournament.

Uruguay went ahead 2-0 in the 66th minute on Je-Vaughn Watson's own goal. Hernandez's errant one-touch in front of the goal ricocheted off Watson's right hand into the goal.

In the 88th, Corujo raced to win a glancing header of a long goal kick and he beat Jamaica goalkeeper Andre Blake in a one-on-one battle.

Jamaica was the only team to not score a goal in the tournament.