The Eagles reached 11 points on aggregate against Puebla, a figure that had never been reached in a Liguilla series.
MEXICO, (Ricardo Cariño, ESPN) — America knows no rival. If the 6-1 lived in the Cuauhtémoc Stadium was not enough, the Azteca Stadium witnessed a second blow over Puebla that saw his pride and efforts dragged against a team that has the caste of champions by winning 5-1 and thereby rounding off an overall 11-2.
Puebla he changed his game plan against a America who rotated the squad, which caused the visiting team to have only 15 minutes of good play and even made some players nervous like Emilio Lara, who made a mistake on a throw-in, which caused Maxi Araujo to take the ball from the youth azulcrema to finish in front of Memo Ochoa’s goal, but his shot went to the side of the goal.
The Puebla team was better than the home team. The defensive strength led them to arrive in order to the rival area, but they failed to make their attempts, which would be deadly for their cause.
At minute 21, a recovery from his own field caused a six-touch counterattack that started from the right wing and ended with a filtered ball from Roger Martínez to Brian Rodríguez, who did not forgive against the rival goal and scored the goal at minute 21.
The score did not stop the rival’s momentum, which was about to cause damage through a mid-range shot by Federico Mancuello that hit the round on the right post and with a defeated Ochoa.
The metal seemed to exhaust all the efforts of the Puebla team, as they lost their papers and began to fail in their own field. Miguel Layún put pressure on Gastón Silva and gave in to Henry Martín. The Mexican striker made a wall with Roger Martínez to go hand in hand with Antony Silva and beat him to achieve the second goal.
America had everything under control, the fans in the Coloso de Santa Úrsula sang with joy, celebrated the 2-0 and shouted each pass with an “olé”, but the joy was extinguished in a routine play due to a bad pass by Néstor Araujo for Memo Ochoa. The ball was within the reach of Maximiliano Araujo and he achieved the first goal of the poblanos with a bell shot that hit the post, he got in and hit the crossbar again to end up crossing the line.
America regained control of the game and again caused damage in the rival field, because five minutes into the second half Roger Martínez drove through the entire center of the field and due to the lack of pressure, he decided to kick with power, sending a lightning bolt that crossed the entire area and embedded itself in the upper right corner of Antony Silva. The 9-2 on the global scoreboard appeared on the screens.
America he scored, was comfortable and dominated, but they also boasted of their good luck, since an individual action by Álvaro Fidalgo and that seemed to be cut by the defense ended in a rebound that returned to two feet and with a bruised shot he put the fourth on the board .
America he had fun, he enjoyed the tie with Tano Ortiz’s game and they had the luxury of failing in front of the goal and Jürgen Damm celebrated a goal that was annulled for offside.
in the last few minutes Puebla received another slap. A bad start by Antony Silva caused Diego Valdés to keep the ball in the area, but in his attempt to outwit the goalkeeper he was knocked down and with this the penalty was awarded. Layún prevailed over Viñas and Jürgen to collect it and from the spot he put his hand before a euphoric crowd and they ended up seeing a dream performance.
