By Edgardo Avelar
01 Aug 2024, 00:48 AM EDT
Cruz Azul, one of the three leaders of the Liga MX tournament He was unable to defend the Mexican teams that have started the 2024 edition of the Leagues Cup on the wrong foot by drawing 0-0 with Charlotte FC and then failing in their attempt to win the extra point, thereby compromising their future in this competition between Mexican soccer teams. against Major League Soccer teams.
Simple and easy The sky blue team could not reflect its good football skills on the scoreboard and after wasting some clear goal-scoring chances, as well as leaving in the air a foul that could have changed the fate of the game on the Greek Giorgios Giakoumakis, but neither the referee nor the VAR raised any kind of doubt about the foul.
In this way, Charlotte FC took the game where they wanted to end up winning 4-2 in the penalty shootout of the extra point where goalkeeper David Bingham came off the bench to stop Carlos Rodríguez’s shots. and Luis Romo, to head towards a 4-2 victory that put them ahead of the cement workers in the Group 4 table of the eastern zone where Philadelphia Union dominates with three points.
Beyond the result, which is undoubtedly negative in every way, the good news for the cement workers was their good football performance that should have allowed them to take the lead, at least with a goal, in the first half, but the incidents Goalkeeper David Bingham, who came out inspired, prevented them from doing so by stopping the shots of Uruguayan Ignacio Rivero and the Argentine Lorenzo Faravelli.
The truth is that the American team also had chances to score on the grass of the Bank of American Stadium, but the reality is that the cement workers They were the ones who controlled the action and should have come away with all the spoils from an intense match that sometimes got heated.
By the second half, Charlotte FC knew that if they continued to play with a football response they were closer to losing than winning, so they changed their chip to a more physical game and this led to clashes and a tougher duel.
Even near the 70th minute, sA play was created where Giorgos Giakoumakis received a pull from Malanda that seemed like a penalty, but the referee missed the whistle. and everything was just a mere approximation, even though the defender of the North American squad had a cut on his lip
did not mark anything despite the fact that once again there were complaints from both sides. Defender Malanda even had a cut on his mouth and was gesturing that he had been elbowed, claiming that he had been elbowed.
In the end, everything ended in a goalless draw, which led to penalties where Charly Rodríguez and Luis Romo sealed the tragic fate of the Machine. missing out on the extra point with the score at 4-2.
Goalkeeper David Bingham, Charlotte FC’s hero
In the penalty shootout, Poland’s Karol Swiderski, England’s Ashley Wetwood and Americans Patrick Agyemang and Brant Bronico scored for CharlotteAnd, to confirm the great performance of his goalkeeper David Bingham, who after allowing Uriel Antuna and Ignacio Rivero to convert their shots into success, he lowered the curtain to stop the shots from Carlos Rodríguez and Luis Romo.
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