The Argentine coach Santiago Solari He has just experienced the elimination with America in the quarterfinals of the Grita Mexico 2021 Tournament, but there have been other cases in which he has not been able to transcend at the time of the decisive games.
In October 2018 when he was managing Real Madrid, he faced Barcelona in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey. In Ida’s Clash, held in the Camp Nou, both teams equaled 1-1 after the goals of Lucas Vazquez by the visitors and the Brazilian Malcolm by the locals. However, for the return, in the Santiago Bernabeu, the meringues were beaten 0-3 with a double from the Uruguayan Luis Suarez and an own goal from the French Raphael varane.
Around the same time, the whites were fighting the UEFA Champions League and against all odds they were eliminated in the round of 16 against the Amsterdam Ajax by an aggregate of 3-5. In Ida’s crash, in the Johan Cruyff Arena, the Spanish won 1-2 through the French Karim Benzema and Frame Asensio, however, on the return, The Children of the Gods they beat 1-4 to give Indiecito a hard blow.
Talking about his first league championship in the MX League, Solari managed to qualify as second place in the table, however, Pachuca eliminated him 5-5 on aggregate thanks to the away goal criterion. For the first game in the Hidalgo Stadium, the Tuzos won 3-1, where the Argentine Leo Suarez scored the only so much azulcrema. Already in the Aztec stadium, the Eagles won 4-2 with a double from the Colombian Roger Martinez, more annotations by Suárez and Luis Fuentes, which was not enough to reach the semifinals.
The second failure of the South American helmsman came on October 28 when they lost the final of the CONCACAF Champions League against Rayados for the minimum of the Argentine Rogelio Funes Mori at BBVA Bancomer Stadium. On the way they threw the Olympia of Honduras, in addition to Portland Timbers and Philadelphia Union of the MLS. Thus, America lost the opportunity to go to Club World Cup.
Finally, the ‘solarismo’ lost credibility again this weekend because despite having been the super-leader of the competition by a large difference in points, it fell behind the semester when it fell to Pumas, the eleventh in the classification. The feathered ones came out to avoid defeat in CU managing to leave everything 0-0, however, in El Nido they could not fulfill their objective when they were traced 1-3, despite opening the slate with a penalty from the Argentine Emanuel Aguilera.
Anyway, Solari He will still have a new opportunity for the Clausura 2022, since the board ratified him as a strategist, although apparently the condition to stay in the institution is to now reach the grand final of the MX League.
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