By Edgardo Avelar
When it seemed that Blue Cross would have serious problems to solve their problems of lack of forwards, Nigerian Christian Ebere suddenly became the starter to become the trigger for the victory in the first leg duel of the light blue team over the red and black team of the Atlas 2-3 at the Jalisco stadium.
An appearance by the African player who revitalized the cement attack with a power and speed that tested to the Argentine red and black defenders Rodrigo Adrian Schlegel and Manuel Capassoas well as the Brazilian Gustavo Henrique Ferrareis, until he became his headache.
Easily and simply, the mobility of the Nigerian player was pure poison in the first half for the athletes, because he hindered them, crushed them, and at the same time surpassed them in speed and if it had not been for his technical deficiencies in the last play, he would have given at least two more goals to the Machine than the first ones. two of the initial half scored by the Argentine Carlos Rodolfo Rotondi and the African himself, The score would have gone much more easily for a Celeste Machine that looked dominant in the first forty five minutes.
Camilo Vargas, for that reason, had to work hard to prevent his goal from being beaten by the strength of the Nigerian and by the skill of José Paradela and the drive of Carlos Rotondi who, together with Agustín Palavicino, Omar Campos and Carlos Rodríguez They were the necessary contribution for the light blue team to dominate the first half.
The celestial faults
But the second half arrived and Cruz Azul showed the face that has always affected them, that of overconfidence, that of not knowing how to kill their rivals and generate dramas like tonight at the packed Jalisco Stadium, where the red and black They recovered with goals from Diego González and Aldo Rocha in a penalty disputed due to an apparent foul by Argentine Gonzalo Piovi.
This 2-2 draw made Cruz Azul try to calm things down and cause Atlas to stop the pressure on their goal and they succeeded when, in a shot in the area, the Argentine Rodrigo Adrian Schlege pulled with his arm to the Colombian Willer Ditta to decree the maximum penalty that the Nigerian Ebere took in a neat manner to put the icing on the cake for Cruz Azul’s victory.
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