Blue Cross aggravated their crisis of results this afternoon after drawing at home 1-1 with Xolos Tijuanain a lackluster duel, without attitude, but above all on the side of the Celestial Machine, which showed that the Eight games they have not won are the product of not knowing how to manage their team.
A very unfortunate result that will cause their descent in the standings after the victories of Pumas and Pachuca, which begin to generate distrust throughout the squad. especially because, from being one of the favorites, it begins to fall into the territory of the troupes.
At first, it seemed that Cruz Azul would come for all the marbles and demonstrate that the elimination in the Concachampions was only part of the story, but the reality was very different and although it has done some changes such as the start of goalkeeper Kevin Mier and Andrés Montaño, the rhythm of the light blues did not change; especially because they seemed like a Percheron horse, at half throttle, and this made the work of the border squad easier.
The Celeste Machine opened the scoring in the 16th minute through the maximum penalty they committed on Andrés Montaño, but then Xolos equalized in the 25th minute through Moroccan naturalized Spanish Mourad Daoudi in a series of rejections after a great play by Adonis Preciado.
Cruz Azul’s last victory occurred on March 10 when they won as a visitor in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Concachampions against Monterrey, since then they have gone eight games without knowing the victory.
After that victory over Rayados 2-3, Cruz Azul tied its next three games, against Pumas (2-2), Monterrey (1-1) and Mazatlán (1-1), until the defeat against Pachuca came on matchday 13 by a score of 1-2.
Subsequently, Cruz Azul suffered a 3-0 defeat against LAFC in the first leg of the quarterfinals of theto Concacaf Champions Cup and then tied 1-1 against América, LAFC, in the second legand now against Tijuana on Matchday 15 of Clausura 2026.
Cruz Azul, under the command of Nicolás Larcamón, has shown a performance between blue and good nights with 29 points, corresponding to eight wins, five draws and two losses, where it has scored 27 goals to 17 against, which allows them to have a winning difference of more than 10 goals to decide.
Xolos reached 19 points after four wins, seven draws and four losses, with 16 goals to decide and the same against, which has them fighting for a place in the league.
The few details of the game
Cruz Azul came out determined to build an important advantage from the first minute of action, but except Uruguayan Gabriel Fernández’s penalty goal in the 16th minutethe rest of the game seemed to be settled, despite the fact that the border team scored just by stepping on the accelerator of the Colombian Adonis Preciado, who went along the entire left wing to send a cross that was finished off by a Xolos player and on the rebound of three bands of Cruz Azul players, he only had to push the ball into the nets.
In the second half, Cruz Azul advanced lines, but there was no opinion and with that the Xolos were more selective in their plays counterattack to try to jeopardize the celestial goal, but in the end there was not much to tell in a duel that lacked brilliance and that has the coach of the Celeste Machine facing his most complicated panorama.
Another highlight of the second half is that Gilberto Mora added thirty more minutes of play after his reappearance duel from last week when he played 17 minutes; Now they put him in for longer and he had no discomfort from pubalgia, which is great news for the cement team.
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