IN JUST A few short minutes, Mexico turned the tables on the United States, then ran away with its second straight Gold Cup win.

This one means more than the title they took in 2009 against a second-team USA. Now El Tri gets to play in the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil a year before the World Cup.

Michael Bradley and Landon Donovan scored to help the United States build a 2-0 lead. Donovan became the Gold Cup’s leading scorer with 13 goals.

But Pablo Barrera scored his first of two goals on a 17-yard shot inside the right post in the 29th minute, snapping US goalkeeper Tim Howard’s Gold Cup shutout streak at 351 minutes.

Then in the 36th minute, Giovanni Dos Santos’s pass from the right side of the penalty area deflected off defender Eric Lichaj and toward Howard. Guardado pounced on the ball and poked it in from five yards, tying it at 2-2.

Barrera put Mexico ahead to stay in the 50th minute, slipping a 10-yard shot underneath the right hand of diving goalkeeper Howard and inside the left post.

Dos Santos ended the scoring in the 76th minute by chipping a 17-yard shot over Lichaj’s head at the left post after keeping the ball away from a charging Howard.

The announced attendance of 93,420 was the largest for a Gold Cup game in the United States, but the crowd was decidedly in Mexico’s corner, greeting the introduction of each American player by shouting “Burro!” or  ”Donkey!”

And to underline Mexico’s dominance Javier Hernandez, who led this year’s Gold Cup with seven goals, was the tournament’s most valuable player. Chicharito, as Hernandez’s jersey reads, scored 20 goals for Manchester United during the Premier League season.

Here’s all the goals with some crazy commentary to boot:

- with reporting from AP