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For: EFE Updated 11 May 2022, 8: 37 am EDT
The Red and Black of the Atlas of Colombians Julián Quiñones and Camilo Vargas, league champions, will visit Guadalajara this Thursday , his fiercest rival, in the quarterfinals of the Clausura 2022 of Mexican soccer.
Directed by the Argentinian Diego Cocca, Atlas was placed in third place in the standings thanks to its defense, the best in the championship tied with Pachuca, and the good understanding between strikers Quiñones, with six goals, and Argentine Julio Furch, with five.
This Thursday, Cocca’s team will bet on standing up well and, although it will be well served with a draw at their rival’s house, will be attentive to Guadalajara leaving spaces in its eagerness to attack to hurt the.
Atlas admitted 15 goals, less than one per game, and although his attack was only the eighth, his goals were timely, which allowed the team access directly to the phase of the eight best.
Last 20 March , on the eleventh day of the championship, Atlas and Guadalajara tied 1-1. Now both teams arrive motivated, the Rojinegros for their good tournament, the Chivas for having won their five most recent games.
Guadalajara resurrected with the arrival of the coach Ricardo Cadena, substitute for Marcelo Leaño, in mid-April. The new strategist changed the face of the team, with 11 goals scored and 3 conceded.
After placing sixth in the table, Guadalajara thrashed the Pumas 4-1 in the repechage and arrives animated to the duel against Atlas, one of the most anticipated of the phase of the eight best for putting two teams face to face with a great rivalry, in the so-called Clásico Guadalajara.
A couple of hours before Cruz Azul of Peruvian coach Juan Reynoso, who narrowly entered the quarterfinals, will visit Tigres UANL of French striker André Pierre Gignac.
With ups and downs in their performance, in the playoff Cruz Azul needed to beat Necaxa on penalties to advance to the league; Tigres, on the other hand, was the second best team and this Thursday they will try to ratify it.
In the Azteca stadium, their home, the Blues will go out to win so as not to be in trouble in the second leg, the weekend in Monterrey, home of the Tigres.
With Gignac, leaders of the scorers, Tigres did 30 annotations, 10 more than Cruz Azul, who received one goal less than his rival on duty.
Although those numbers will not count in the series, Tigres He comes out as the favorite , for his best squad and a powerful attack, with Gignac accompanied by his compatriot Florian Thauvin, the Paraguayan Carlos González, the Colombian Luis Quiñones, the Venezuelan Yeferson Soteldo and the Uruguayan Nicolás López.
The quarterfinals will start this Wednesday when the San Luis will receive the leader Pachuca and Puebla will host America.
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