By Edgardo Avelar
The UANL Tigers They put aside spectacularity and opted for football pragmatism to launch a style that allowed them to repeat the dose to the Nashville SC 1-0 and this way advance to the Concachampions final in its history.
After last week’s victory in Tennessee, a radical change in his style was not expected of the game and with this belief they went out onto the Universitario field to achieve the tight victory. It is true that it was not easy, because the goal that secured the match came in the 66th minute through Argentine Juan Brunetta.
It is true that the felines’ style was not the best it was many games ago in front of 41,615 spectators gathered at the Volcán, very far from the duel they gave against Chivas or against Mazatlán, pBut it was enough to leave the North American team behind.
There were also news, like the lineup that Guido Pizarro used when starting Marcelo Flores instead of Diego Lainezwhile the hot royal afternoon-night, of almost 40 degrees, played a trick on Nashville, as Patrick Yazbek injured his right leg in the warm-up, having to leave the field with support so that he would not rest his foot when walking. JB Callaghan had to be replaced by Bryan Acosta.
Tigres also had to make moves in their team before the 20th minute with the injury of Fernando Gorrarián to be relieved by Juan Pablo Vigón. which did not affect the functioning of the team in any way and even made it stronger on the field of play.
The rest of the first half was highly contested, with the visitors threatening corner kicks, while the cats did not put plays together, They greatly resented Gorriarán’s departure, so they went into the break without a goal.
For the second half, the cats went a little further forward and scored the winning goal 1-0 in a great play on the left side by Ángel Correa, cleaning the area and leaving a chocolate for Brunetta so that he could shoot and gave peace of mind to the cats and the direction towards the grand final of the Concachampions.
Two finals in less than five months, not bad for a team led by a coach with barely a year of experience, but who has been able to convince and commit their players to what they are experiencing today at the hands of Guido Pizarro.
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