At the moment of greatest excitement for the Cruz Azul fans, the team lost its way after being beaten 4-1 by Pumas at the Azteca Stadium, a venue that has become their nightmare this Apertura 2023, since they cannot win at home and, to make matters worse, the feline fans dressed as home fans with all their support.
The Celeste Machine went to lose the match that could catapult them into the classification and although they are not mathematically eliminated, their chances of qualifying for a final phase are very limited. Contrary to the University, which He is already third in the General Table.
The strategy proposed by Joaquín Moreno could not contain César Huerta, the key man of Pumas who continues to eat up the League. Moreno decided to save Díber Cambindo and Moisés Vieira, and when he wanted to use them he already had the score against him.
On the other hand, Chino Huerta, with his doubleled the rout in which Ulises Rivas and even defender Nathan appeared, making Pumas a serious candidate for the title in this competition.
These were goals from Cruz Azul vs. Cougars
César Huerta had had few options in the first half until at 27 minutes he launched himself into an overflow on the left wing in the only opportunity the defense gave him. Therefore, when Rafa Guerrero found himself surpassed by the skilled player, he launched the sweep, but it was too late because he committed a penalty.
César Ramos did not hesitate and marked it. What came next was quite a show. First with Juan Dinenno and Chino Huerta arguing over who was going to take the penalty, then with goalkeeper Andrés Gudiño making a great save and to top it off, the VAR had to tell César Ramos that the penalty had to be retaken.
And all because Gudiño did not have at least one foot on the line. So César Ramos called everyone to repeat it and this time Chino Huerta scored 1-0 in the game.
Cruz Azul had generated more options with shots from Charly Rodríguez and two shots from Rotondi, but they could not overcome to goalkeeper Julio González.
So it had to appear Angel Sepúlveda who appeared on a corner kick to push the ball after a very tight cross. Cuate scored his fourth goal with the light blue shirt, which puts him one behind the Apertura 2023 scoring leader, Harold Preciado.
For the second part, the first to move his pieces was Antonio Mohamed who put a line of five at the back with the entry of Robert Ergas in addition to sacrificing Juan Dinenno to leave only Gabriel “Toro” Fernández.
The result proved him right because it caused spaces to be created due to the lack of defensive control and one of those spaces was taken advantage of by Chino Huerta, again with a powerful overflow and just when he entered the area he sent the shot that went like a rocket into the goal to 2-1. Gudiño launched himself but could never reach the speed of that ball.
Joaquín Moreno reacted very late with the changes, as he brought on Moisés Vieira and Cambindo who really could do little.
Thus came Pumas’ third goal courtesy of Ulises Rivas, who was encouraged by a long-distance shot that was deflected by Juan Escobar into his own goal. And the captain had a very bad time in this game, since early in the game he was also cautioned for a foul on Huerta.
Already in the final part and in fixed tactics Nathan Silva appeared to achieve the 4-1 win by Pumas that derailed machine in the Apertura, where they simply do not win at home and have already had five games without winning, four of them defeats.
2023-10-08 05:20:52
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