This Thursday at Aztec stadiumin an early duel on Date 16 of the 2022 Liga MX Opening Tournament, Cruz Azul came back 2-1 to León in the last minute to dream of the playoff by placing on the tenth rung with 18 points, the same as the Panzas Verdes and Athletic San Luiswho are ninth and eighth, respectively.
Just after four minutes, the Uruguayan Gonzalo Carneiro he blew the right post with a header, but after that, there were few dangerous actions throughout the first half, even though the dominance was total by the locals, who only managed very high shots that went over the visiting goal .
For the complement, the Celestes were the ones who were still looking for the goal, however, in the first approach of the Emeralds, everything ended in an own goal. The Argentinian Lucas DiYorio entered the area, eluded the mark to take a diagonal that the youth squad Raphael Guerrero could not clear and the ball ended up bouncing on Rodrigo Huesca.
looking down, Machine he kept going to the front continually searching through the centers. At 68′, Uriel Antuna sent the ball to the area so that the Uruguayan Ignatius Rivero however, the referee Marco Antonio Ortiz and the VAR marked offside, although it seemed that the midfielder was enabled.
Finally at 81′, Blue Cross was able to equalize on a corner kick charged by Riverosince the Ecuadorian Michael Estrada He headed in a great way to beat Rodolfo Cota; finally, at 90+2′ the comeback came, again with a header, this time by Alonso Escobozaafter a precise center of Antuna on the right side.
After the victory of Machinethe technician Raul Gutierrez He asked the board for confidence so that the coaching staff remains at the head of the club, citing as an example what other colleagues of his have done, such as Richard Chain of Chivas and the Argentines Ferdinand Ortiz Y Andres Lilliniof America Y Cougarsrespectively, who also arrived as interims and have excelled.
“I think they The Tano, Stringthe same Lillini at the time, they had the time and the support and those examples that must be taken into account. All that part of being a coach requires time to adapt, it requires certain circumstances that sometimes times and short tournaments do not allow. Those are very good examples and I hope there are more, it benefits the institutions, it benefits football, the new faces of coaches, I think they are those examples that we must follow”explained El Potro.
“We are working precisely to show that we are a capable coaching staff, people with experience, people who have known what this is about for many years and hopefully that will be taken into account. People have the right to demand, they want to see themselves reflected in a winning team and I think today the face they showed Blue Cross empathizes with what people want to see from a great team, so we are happy about that, because that face and that responsibility that we have to be in an institution like this, we have to stick our chests out, we have to show self-esteem, professionalism, as the boys did it today”ended.
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