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For: EFE Updated 28 Apr 2022, 15: 45 pm EDT
Argentine footballer Emanuel Aguilera, defender of the Atlas of Mexican soccer, said this Thursday that after being champion with America, he is excited to win the Clausura Tournament title with Atlas .
“ The team is fine, during the tournament we have had adversities and we have stayed in the first places. The illusion is intact to achieve important things with this shirt, that is my idea “, he said at a press conference.
After his arrival at Atlas, league champion, last January and after having played three games, Aguilera has not had regularity due to the injury to his right leg that suffered in February and that kept him off the courts until a week ago.
The defender from Mendoza, he had minutes again against Monterrey on the date 15 and hopes to remain in the starting lineup against Tigres UANL next Saturday in the last day of the regular tournament that will define Atlas’s pass to the league.
Aguilera considered that the match against Tigres, second place in the tournament and one of the two classified to the league , will be a parameter to measure the capacity offensive ad for Atlas, who is seeking his second title in 70 years.
“ It will be a good parameter to see what we are for, to see our operation and what we really want it, it’s a test for what’s to come, for the league and closing in the best way against a great rival“.
The red and black team occupies fourth place in the Clausura with 26 Points of 48 possible, and if they beat Tigres they will secure their direct ticket to the quarterfinals of the Clausura; Otherwise, it will depend on a combination of results so as not to have to win the pass via playoffs.
Aguilera assured that polishing the offensive operation will be key to defeating Tigres and playing a good role in the league.
“It is a complicated and difficult team, which has a good offense and because of the games it has He has been playing, it has not gone very well for him and he will surely want to recover his football level “, he concluded.