With a hat-trick from Marcelo Flores, Tigres returns, for now, to direct Liguilla positions

This Saturday at Volcano, Tigers came back 5-2 to Necaxa and he did it hand in hand with Marcelo Floreswho achieved his first hat trick with the team and in the Liga MXwith which, for now, they returned to positions of League directly, by rising to fifth position with 28 units, despite the victories of Pachuca and Chivas.

The Rayos surprised in the 33rd minute with a goal from the Paraguayan Brian Samudiobut for the complement, the French André-Pierre Gignac He was present to level the score. Just three minutes later, Ozziel Herrera He achieved the somersault, but the magic of the cello.

In approximately ten minutes, the youth team extinguished the hydro-warm energies with their hat trick. At 59', the one born on Canadian soil appeared inside the area to connect a diagonal of Ozziel. Three minutes later, he was again in the exact place to close a cross. Jesus Garza. Already at 69 ', he stopped the Argentine goalkeeper again Ezequiel Unsain with a shot inside the area to celebrate his hat-trick. Finally, at 72', Alejandro Rivera He discounted to leave the scoreboard more decorous.

It is important to highlight that the winger is going through a great moment in his career with the university students, since he has been used continuously by the Uruguayan coach Robert Dante Siboldi, responding to your trust. This was the fifth pirulo of the former Arsenal in twelve games of this Clausura 2024, five as a starter, although in the Apertura 2023 he scored another two and one more in the CONCACAF Champions League.

With one day left, America (32 points), Toluca (32), Striped (29), Blue Cross (29), Tigers (28) and Pachuca (28) are installed directly on the Leaguewhile Chivas (28), Necaxa (27), Cougars (23) and Queretaro (23) would play the Play-Inwith Lion (23) in the battle to enter, remembering that the rest are already eliminated. The U of Nuevo León closes its participation in the regular phase by receiving Tijuana Xolos in it Volcano.

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