This Wednesday, May 8, with a time to be defined from the Estadio Olimpico Universitario, the Club Universidad Nacional will host the Cruz Azul Football Club in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the 2024 Clausura Tournament of the Liga MX.
The university team has just advanced through the Play-In in seventh place after beating Club Pachuca in a penalty shootout; For its part, the light blue team has just won by the slightest difference 0-1 against Deportivo Toluca FC and thus positioned itself as general sub-leader in the classification.
Thus, in the following list we make five predictions about what could happen in this first leg match from Ciudad Universitaria between the capital teams.
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As happened in their confrontation in the regular phase where they tied 0-0, for this Liguilla match nothing different is expected, since being the first episode, both clubs will not risk much and will try to keep their clean sheets.
The cats have accumulated six games without losing and the cement workers have four, both come with positive inertia, so the trend indicates that it is likely that there will be equality in the first chapter
of the series.
The cats entered the quarterfinals as seventh after leaving the Tuzos in the way, the reality is that they were not superior and although they played with one less player for much of the game, they did not have many goal options, so they They will venture further into the series against the Machine where they have nothing to lose.
La Maquina was the second best defense of the tournament, so they will look for their goalkeeper and defense to be able to be undefeated and leave the work to the offense. This way we can get back clean and not complicate the series.
Regardless of the score, the light blue team must appear superior, the cement team proved to be a better team throughout the regular phase, so they must impose their level of play and show that they have a better performance with a collectively stronger team.
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