Raúl Gutiérrez began his stage with Blue Cross with a hard-fought win over the Querétaro White Roosters, which was not enough for him to return with the Machine to the classification zone. The cement team is still out of the 12 places in the table, with only 6 more days to play.
With the victory against Querétaro, the La Noria club reached 11 points and remains in 15th position in the table, because although it is tied with Mazatlan, has a worse goal difference. On the other hand, it is one point from León and Juarezuntil now the last classified and that surpasses the Fiera in goals.
Precisely the Braves are Cruz Azul’s next rival, so it will be a key game to get into the qualifying zone. The light blue team is obliged to win so that the panorama does not get more complicated and has more room for action in the last days of the opening 2022.
Since the playoffs returned to the MX Leagueno team with 22 points has been removed. Therefore, cement workers would need at least 11 units to ensure their classification; that is to say, if they lose 3 of the 6 games they are missing, they would no longer depend on themselves to reach the playoffs.
JuarezRayados from Monterrey, Mazatlán, León, Pumas and Chivas They are the rivals that Cruz Azul needs to face. Of the 6, the Monterrey team is probably the only one that will be more difficult on paper, since the rest have had a tournament almost as irregular as the Machine.
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In a hypothetical case that the team led by Raul Gutierrez win all his remaining games, he will reach 29 points and that could even be enough to qualify for the top 4, as he already did in the Guardians 2020. However, in that scenario it will depend on what other teams do while for the playoffs they still have the fate in their hands.
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