This Thursday at the TSM Corona Stadium, Santos Laguna beat Tigres 2-1 with the Chilean’s goals Diego Valdes and Eduardo Aguirre, while the French André-Pierre Gignac discounted, in the quarterfinals of Ida of Liga MX.
Here are the two mistakes and three successes of the royals:
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Go very fast down on the scoreboard
In less than five minutes, the cats were surprised by some lagoons who came out with everything from the initial whistle to take advantage of the locality, taking advantage of the bad defensive mark.
Those at home quickly charged an infraction through the Uruguayan Fernando Gorriarán, who gave the ball to Omar fields, who focused on the area to find Valdes, who won the aerial duel against Carlos Salcedo.
Later, at minute 12, again there was no defensive understanding, since Hugo Ayala came out to pressure Valdés, who threw a filtered pass to the Mute, leaving the Titan behind for speed.
They did not take advantage of clear options
There were very few opportunities that those of San Nicolás de los Garza had to endanger the lagoon arc, but one of them came at 42 ‘through Juan Pablo Vigón. The Colombian Luis Quinones he sent a cross into the box and the midfielder headed wide, hitting the post when he had almost the entire frame open.
Even in the last minute of the meeting, Javier Aquino sent a center from the left sector that reached him Thauvin, who was totally alone, but his header sent him extremely wide.
Gignac’s goal that keeps them alive
Fortunately for the cats, the Albiverdes relaxed enough for the complement, giving up a large part of the possession, something that in the end the royal team took advantage of to stay alive in the key.
After some warnings, the visitors sent a long ball towards the rival field with the Brazilian Matheus Doria bouncing the ball in the humanity of the Paraguayan Carlos Gonzalez, which left the ball alive and bouncing for the Frenchman to release a great shot that he could not stop Carlos Acevedo placeholder image.
Dedé had not appeared much at the engagement, but being the different man he appeared when he was most needed.
Miguel Herrera did not keep anything and sent everything to attack
True to his philosophy, El Piojo did not stay with his arms crossed when he saw his team below, so he put all the meat on the grill and sent his attackers to look for the much-needed goal.
Keeping to Gignac and Quinones, the helmsman sent to the field Gonzalez, the Uruguayan Leo Fernandez and to french Florian Thauvin, to at least put more pressure on the Warriors.
Although they did not manage to tie the duel, at least they discounted, which will be very helpful for the return in the Volcano.
They avoided more goals against despite falling asleep
the same Louse He accepted that they left completely asleep and out of rhythm in the first half, however, little by little they settled on the field of play and managed to begin to own the ball.
Removing the two goals, the royals began to look for the opposite arch to avoid more lagoon arrivals, having as one of their best men to Quinones, who tried in every possible way to hurt the opponent with spills and shots.
In addition to this, they did not lose men due to expulsion despite the fact that four players were cautioned: the Uruguayan Nico Lopez, Luis ‘Chaka’ Rodríguez, Quinones and Juan Purata.
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