2024-02-22 05:34:52
Not even the Beast stops the Machine. This time Cruz Azul’s victim was León, who in their own stadium was defeated 3-2 by the celestials, a team that looks invincible with its sixth consecutive victory and will now go to the Azteca Stadium against América.
In 45 minutes Cruz Azul imposed all the necessary conditions to take the necessary advantage and, once again the rival, in this case León, did not know how to counteract this style of play.
Cruz Azul dominated and had its first clear option at the feet of youth player Alexis Gutiérrez, who flew the ball in an incredible way. But, fortunately, minutes later the goal came that gave us the advantage and it was a great goal.
Charly Rodríguez controlled the ball outside the area and with a powerful shot beat goalkeeper Rodolfo Cota, who stretched, but was unable to deflect the ball at 29′ at 1-0. Charly celebrated with the ball inside his shirt since in a few months he will be a father.
Demoralized, La Fiera was unable to regain their spirits in time and before they knew it, Rodrigo Huescas had taken advantage of a pass from Sepúlveda in the area to put the score at 2-0.
León had his options
With everything and the score against, pride caused the Fiera footballers to put together their plays with a lot of honor more than a collective game. This is how Osvaldo Rodríguez made a precise pass to Federico Viñas that failed.
A very similar case was when the Colombian Edgar Guerra missed a Viñas cross and they paid dearly for all of that at the end of the game.
The lights went out in the stadium
The intensity of the match was interrupted in the 63rd minute when the match had to be postponed for a few minutes when an electrical fault caused the stadium lights to go out. Referee Diego Montaño ensured that the lights were working correctly before restarting the game.
For this reason, 28 minutes had to be added to the game and that is why it was played beyond 110 because the players were without playing for a long period.
Three goals at the end
Not even the pause stopped the intensity of the game and it was just when Jorge Bava had found a way to give battle to the cement workers. Although only an error by the youth Rafael Guerrero allowed them to find the added goal.
Alan Medina stole the ball from the Cachorro, went in and beat goalkeeper Kevin Mier in the 2-1 score that seemed to give life to the Fiera.
But once again Cruz Azul found a goal play after a wall that allowed Ángel Sepúlveda to be one-on-one with Cota. The goalkeeper managed to deflect the ball, but it went to where Uriel Antuna was, who made it 3-1 with a header.
It seemed like it would be the end, but La Fiera continued fighting until they found the 3-2 thanks to a long pass from Medina to Guerra, who, having no space, gave the ball a header to Alvarado, who scored the second of the night in the middle of the turn. for your team.
In the end, the referee’s criteria favored the Machine because a blow to the face by Guerrero against Alvarado was only marked as a foul and a warning, this after reviewing the image in the VAR.
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