What does Cruz Azul need to advance to the final after the result in the first leg against Monterrey?

Thursday, May 16, 2024, BBVA stadium field, in Guadalupe, Nuevo León. He Monterrey Soccer Club received a visit from Blue Cross Celestial Machinefor the match corresponding to the first leg of the semifinals for the Clausura 2024 tournament.

Those led by Fernando: ‘Tano’ Ortíz, who has not yet been able to play in a final in his still young career as technical director, came to this commitment with spirit through the roof, after having eliminated his staunch rival: the Tigres of the UANL, in the quarterfinals.

Martín Anselmi, for his part, seeks to lead the cement workers to a new final for the Mexican championship, in what is his first semester serving as a coach in national football. They looked very good against the UNAM Pumas, beating them by an aggregate score of 4-2.

Against Rayados, in the first leg, they won 1-0 as a visitor, so in the second leg they can even afford to lose by the slightest difference and would still get into the final for the Mexican championship.

And while Cruz Azul is already focused on next Sunday’s match, where it will define whether or not it advances to the final for the Clausura 2024 tournament, among fans there is the illusion of facing the Águilas del América in a hypothetical final.

Beyond what the rivalry of the capital classic implies, the memory of what was suffered, first in 2013 and then in 2018, still reverberates in the conscience of each fan, who already knows what it is like to see their team champion of the League, since They only ended the drought in 2021, but whose wound is still fresh and they hope that, with the help of Martín Anselmi, they can find peace in a rivalry that has made them suffer too much.