By Edgardo Avelar
The fang of the Atlas to take advantage of a mistake by the Uruguayan defender Sebastian Caceres that the insistence of the Águilas in 90 minutes of a duel where the red and black ended up beating the Águilas 0-1 to qualify for the league and Incidentally, sending the Americanists to eighth place to face Pumas in the finals.
Atlas, with the victory, broke a nine-year streak without winning at the Banorte Stadium (Azteca) after its last victory was in the Clausura 2017 tournament, when they won 1-2 on matchday 17 of that championship.
It was the worst scenario that the team led by Brazilian André Jardine had considered, since they never thought that in the minutes of added time Uruguayan Sebastián Cáceres would make a mistake to open the door for Alfonso “Ponchito” González and that this ended up leaving the proud azulcremas lying on the field.
America had the opportunity to open the scoring through a penalty, but they didn’t even know how to do that well on this rainy night at the Banorte stadium (Azteca), as the Brazilian Raphael Veiga went too creamy and He ended up giving the ball almost into the hands of Colombian international Camilo Vargas..
It was such a forceful slap that on the field, after González He had broken the mark of two defenders and managed to shoot at the goal defended by Rodolfo Cota. that he could not prevent the well-placed shot from doing the damage that the athlete expected.
That was the straw that broke the camel’s back, because America barely had a few more minutes to achieve even the tie that would allow it to remain in fifth place in the popular table, but the weight of the result sent them to eighth place and Atlas took its place with 26 units in the sixth step, leaving the Tigers in seventh and the proud Águilas in eighth.
Before, America regretted not knowing how to kill the red-blacks, going again and again against Camilo Vargas’ goal and falling short in the attempt due to the lack of greater imagination of the offensive men made up of Raphael Veiga, Erick Sánchez, Alejandro Zendejas and Brian Rodríguezas well as later with Patricio Salas, Henry Martín and José “Pantera” Zúñiga.
While Atlas put together its defense in layers and by zone, which made it almost impossible for América to explore the option of scoring a goal against the red and black in risk areas. and thus ended up writing a thorny story for the Americanists.
Continue reading:
– América, Atlas, Tigres, Xolos and León are risking their lives for the last three tickets to the league
– Camilo Vargas silenced Toluca 0-0 and the Red Devils were no longer the general leaders
– Sebastián Cáceres revealed that he wanted to leave América
