The black beast of the Eagles? Pachuca's hegemony over America in qualifying rounds

Club América and Club Pachuca will meet in the semifinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup 2024 in search of reaching the final and being crowned monarchs of the Concacaf zone. Looking at the overall balance, the Hidalgo team is largely dominant over the capital's team in decisive phases.

Since the introduction of the short tournaments, both clubs have met six times in KO rounds. The Águilas have only won once, while the Tuzos have done so five times, meaning that they have a large advantage and superiority in elimination rounds.

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It is worth mentioning that the last two coaches before André Jardine suffered eliminations, Santiago Solari was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Guard1anes 2021 Tournament despite having qualified as the leader and that in that tournament the tiebreaker criterion by means of the away goal was still in force.

Subsequently, Fernando Ortiz suffered a setback again against the Tuzos, this time it was in the semifinals and once again the Águilas were left wanting to advance to the final, as they fell with authority 4-1 on aggregate.

With this recent background, the Brazilian strategist, André Jardinehopes to break the positive inertia of the Tuzos against the azulcremas, since it is worth mentioning that in the last 16 regular phase games the Mexico City team has only lost one chance and they did so precisely against the pupils of Gu
illermo Almada 2-1 on Matchday 7.