The wait is over for Atlas FC that will play another Mexican soccer final after 22 years and although they were defeated in front of a fierce group of Pumas de la UNAM , those led by Diego Cocca achieved their goal and dream of getting their second title of the Liga MX .
In a duel where the teams appealed to friction and also appealed to the good performance shown in the Mexican soccer league. However, Pumas appealed to the statistics, playing orderly and undaunted by the pressure of the Jalisco Stadium.
Although in the first half the Atlas team had a couple of clear chances, Julián Quiñones tried to open the scoring, as did his partner Julio Furch , but in front of them they had a defense of Pumas that was insurmountable throughout the first half.
Alfredo Talavera had moments of brilliance and personality to spread safety to his people while they continued studying the rivals during the first half. On the other hand, the Guadalajara team and Diego Cocca could not finish deciphering a university team that had a lot of personality.
Everything began to be defined in the second half and again the Cougars raged in the Atlas field. As if history was repeating itself, for the second consecutive visit to the Jalisco Stadium, Juan Ignacio Dinenno appeared to open the score at the minute 76 ′ of the commitment and in this way the global score would end up being equal.
Although Atlas had everything in favor by the criterion of tiebreaker, a play inside the area ended up causing some commotion due to an elbow that Dinneno himself received in the nose, causing bleeding and concern in all the fans.
Now stop At the end of the engagement, the Pumas striker himself received a red card in an unfortunate play where he tried to make a Chilean and thrashed the face of Jesús Angulo , who immediately collapsed within the large area. Although this decision was highly questioned, there was no change in the position of the head referee.
Atlas was able to hold the result in the aggregate and will be able to play a final after 22 years, after that disputed in 1999 when they were directed by Ricardo La Volpe , although on that occasion they were defeated against Toluca in the penalty shootout, although their only title was achieved in the season 1950-51 and 70 years later they will be able to dream of getting the second one.
Now, there will be a duel that nobody expected to decide the Mexican football monarch between Club León and Atlas FC, where they will face the second in the table and third, starting the first leg on December 9 and the definition of the title will be known on Sunday 12 of the same month.