By Edgardo Avelar
To the Blue Cross negative things came together, or so it seemed; after losing 1-2 with him Pachuca In the activity on date 13, the celestials suffered the unexpected error of the goalkeeper Andrés Gudiño and later, with their bipolarity, they did not know how to solve the game.
A setback that, if this Sunday Chivas defeats Pumas, it will cause the Sacred Flock to move six points away from the celestials in a hard blow in the fight for the fundamental leadership of the Clausura 2026 tournament and where the cement squad suffered the absence of key midfield players such as Erik Lira and Agustín Palavicino, which ended up affecting the performance of the cement workers.
But what hurt the Machine the most It was the mistake of goalkeeper Andrés Gudiño in the 4th minute of action, when he did so without paying attention to a goal kick and with a certain indifference, which he did not realize when the Brazilian Kennedy was on the side and upon seeing the gift in the center of the area, he only had to take the ball and put it in the goal in a serious, but serious mistake that he had not made in all the time he has been a starter with the light blues.
This goal marked the course of the match, as Cruz Azul was forced to go forward with more force, but without Palavicino As a partner of Paradela he did not have such a connection with Luka Romero and much less with the African Christian Ebere who started the match, but took a while to get into the rhythm.
For that reason, when Ebere managed to tie the match in an action that had to be invalidated for offside and that neither the VAR nor the referee Víctor Alfonso Cáceres wanted to markto shape how to tie the light blue before concluding the first half.
Because 12 minutes into the complementary part, once again the Amazonian Kennedy He took a tremendous shot that left Gudiño with no option to put forward the team led by Esteban Solari, who arrived as a seemingly victim and ended up taking a great victory away from home.
Now Cruz Azul is preparing to face LAFC in the quarterfinals of the Concachampions in a duel that will shine and that will test the capacity of both squads and, obviously, where Each league is stopped to continue creating controversy about whether the MLS has already surpassed Liga MX.
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