In a crazy game, full of comebacks, defensive failures and a last-minute goal, Pachuca defeated an Atlas 4-3 that had a two-goal advantage and was unable to sustain it in the matchday 4 of Clausura 2024.
It was in stoppage time when ‘Chofis’ López appeared in the area, took advantage of the fact that no one cut the center and pushed the ball with his head to sign the victory once morest a red and black defense that had a disastrous game.
It was a game with very marked errors on the part of both defenses. Already in the first minutes, Camilo Vargas had had to improvise a come-out to extinguish the first attack of the locals, but it was in the 6th minute when the rain of goals began.
‘Gary’ Zaldívar started the play by making a good pass to ‘Mudo’ Aguirre, who shot and hit the post, but with the great fortune that the rebound was left once more for Zaldívar to smash the ball, making a parabola and it became 0-1 for the Foxes.
Atlas took advantage of the fact that the Tuzos were still knocked out by the first goal and quickly found the 0-2 following a good overflow on the left that ‘Mudo’ Aguirre sent to save when he entered the area alone with his soul and following the good assistance of Rivaldo Lozano .
It was then that the talent of Salomón Rondón appeared. Barely 7 minutes following receiving the second goal, the Venezuelan took the ball in three quarters of the field and took a spectacular left foot shot to beat Camilo Vargas’s shot, score at 1-2 and wake up his team who quickly found parity. .
It was in the 25th minute when the Venezuelan himself scored his double and made it 2-2 following a pass from ‘Chiquito’ Sánchez that he defined with a shot that hit the post.
The Tuzos were back and the Zorros seemed to have already left before the first half was over.
And in the last play of the first half, already in stoppage time, Pachuca quickly took a corner kick, caught the red-and-black defense asleep and the boy Bautista entered the area to then place a shot in the corner and sentence the 3-2 comeback. Incredible but true.
Already in the complement, the pace of the game dropped significantly. However, Atlas appealed to the impetus of pride and honor to find the equalizer that would make having lost a two-goal lead look less bad.
Solari appeared on the right and hit a cross at the far post so that Rivaldo Lozano arrived on time for the match and headed home the 3-3 score that might have been final if it weren’t for the umpteenth failure of the red and black defense in the last minute.
With the defeat, Atlas was stuck at four points and Pachuca already added its first victory of the tournament to reach five points.