The Crlight blue He revived his ghosts of not knowing how to kill his rivals in the great last of Mexican soccer and the players took advantage of that. UNAM Pumas to take the 0-0 as visitors and define the next Sunday in its CU stadium to the winner of the title of the Clausura 2026 tournament of the Liga MX.
I hope the cement workers do not end up paying dearly for their lack of aim to define and take advantage of the complete dominance they had over the Pumas, to the extent that their Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas once again became the difference in the match with three attempts that took away two goals. to the Argentine José Paradela and another to Carlos Rodríguez when he crashed a shot into the right post.
In fact, the cement team was about to pay dearly for its lack of definition two minutes from the end of the match. when Paraguayan Robert Morales hit the crossbar with a shot from no angle that would have totally killed the spirit of the cement workers.
In the end, the “Celestial Machine” had to settle for a 0-0 that was clearly unfair due to what happened on the field, but that is understandable due to the lack of offensive power of a team led by Joel Huiqui that exaggerated tiki-taka instead of going for the result.
While Pumas got the result they wanted and now on Sunday we will see if they can resolve the contest to obtain their seventh title in their history or let them Cruz Azul adds its tenth championship, although right now it is closer to the twelfth lost.
Cruz Azul should have taken the advantage, but had no aim
The “Celestial Machine” of Cruz Azul was largely dominant in the first forty five minutes and should have come out with the advantage on the scoreboard, but the lack of A nominal forward center meant that Pumas’ pressure from the first zone did not have major dividends..
Especially because the cement team overwhelmed the cats in the first 15 minutes, shrinking Pumas’ starting area and trying to generate greater arrivals on the right side with a triangle formed by Jeremy Márquez, Carlos Rodríguez and José Paradela, who later with Agustín Palavecino and Christian Ebere It became a rhombus that put the felines in predicaments.
Thus Cruz Azul had very clear options at the feet of José Paradela, who took a tremendous shot at minute 9 from 25 meters that forced a great shot by Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas to prevent the fall of his goal and keep his squad afloat.
But the cement workers took advantage of the fact that Pumas pulled back in search of a counterattack to try to cause damage, but as they did not achieve their goal, they were at the mercy of the arrivals of the cement workers who seemed having the great option of the game for a penalty on Carlos Rodríguez, but that referee Ismael López Peñuelas did not know how to interpret well.
First, because he scored a penalty and then he was required by the VAR to detect that Carlos Rodríguez, who was fouled inside the area, came from an advanced position, but it was invalidated because the ball came from Santiago Trigos and with that it validated the penalty action that would have changed the course of the game.
The same referee forgave a red card for Rubén Duarte in a tackle without the ball on José Paradela that, logically, would have been marked as an expulsion and put the felines against the wall and begin to tip the scales to their preference.
Finally, the first time went down in history as a time dominated for Cruz Azul, but he did not have the arguments to demonstrate his dominance on the field of play.
Cruz Azul continued to dominate, but had the same problem as the first half, not knowing how to define at the exact moment and had to settle for a result that was very little. for what happened in the Ciudad de los Deportes stadium.
Continue reading:
– Efraín Juárez and his controversial congratulations to the whistler Daniel Quintero Huitrón
– “Cruz Azul is the one who is obliged to the title,” said Ignacio Ambriz
– Cruz Azul does not back down and demands a change of referee for the return of the great last
