Pumas felt the loss of Dani Alves for the second date of the Closing Tournament of the Liga MX and lost 3-0 against Santos Laguna.
Diego Medina, twice, and the Colombian Harold Preciado, once, scored for Santos, who was superior in the first half hour of the game and stopped the university students, at the moments in which they were planted well on the field.
In the 16th minute, Medina converted with his left foot and put Santos ahead, who were put under pressure in the second part of the opening half.
Pumas stepped on the area and was close to equalizing, but the Argentine Eduardo Salvio missed a shot with everything in his favor.
Santos completed the rout with another left-footed shot from Medina, at 62, and at 87 with a penalty well taken by Preciado.
Rafael Puente del Rio, coach of Pumas, stressed that Alves’ loss due to a duel changed his strategy plan against Santos, although he knows that this is not an excuse.
“It was a complicated week because based on what we planned and practiced, due to the personal situation that Dani Alves is going through, which I take advantage of to send a hug to him and his entire family, that planning for the whole week changed for us,” Puente said about the absence of the 38-year-old winger.
With a win and a loss, Santos rose to seventh place, three seats above the Pumas, also with a win and a loss.
“They are different characteristics and we do not work on the field what we feel was going to change based on this forced change, but it will not be a pretext”, added the Mexican helmsman.
The helmsman of the university students pointed out that the team starts the games a little slow so that later it is difficult for them to start down on the scoreboardry get away from your rivals.
“In the first half we started very far from what we wanted, distracted, uncertain, unclear with the ball. There are two days and we have had very uncertain starts, ”said the strategist of the auriazul team.
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