By Edgardo Avelar
04 Aug 2024, 01:13 AM EDT
The Águilas del América could not afford to repeat the pitiful performance in the middle of the week that allowed Chelsea of the Premier League They beat them 3-0 and with a more demanding performance they won 1-0 to Aston Villa who took fourth place in the last tournament of the prestigious British competition.
America cared little about that factor and offered a better game at Soldier Field in the city of Chicago where the youngster IIlian Hernández scored the winning goal to allow the América Eagles They shook off the sporting shame of the defeat against Chelsea
This match left the team led by André Jardine ready to face the round of 16 of the Leagues Cup where they will face to the winner of Group 8 West between Real Salt Lake, Houston Dynamo and Atlas, where the American team seems the most likely to face the American team.
For now, in this exhibition match, both the English and Mexicans engaged in a very disputed first half, with somewhat rough actions, but where the Aztec team He did not back down in the face of a rival who seemed to have more experience and experience on paper..
Thus the Mexican approaches began to be generated, such as the one in the 12th minute when Henry Martín gave a pass to “Chiquito” Sánchez, but goalkeeper Joe Gauci stopped the shot and prevented the former Pachuca player from making his debut with his new team.
Aston Villa responded with two actions that hit the goal posts defended by Luis Malagón, where in a counterattack armed by Rogers he almost put a bomb on Bailey and he put the ball out of Malagón’s reach, but it ended up hitting the second post of the Americanista goal. and in the counterattack John McGinn counterattacked, but with the same luck that the ball went to the other metal.
In the second half, the game dropped in level because both teams made several changes, including the scorer of the winning goal who began to show his offensive ability from the 67th minute when he beat the defense behind him.He would be left in a one-on-one against goalkeeper Oliwier Zych, but the Polish goalkeeper would come out on top.
Then came the goal-scoring action, when Alan Cervantes passed the ball behind the backs of the defenders again He once again left the Americanist striker completely in front of the English team’s goalkeeper And now he did not fail to nestle the ball into the nets with a shot to the left that left the rival goalkeeper with no option for América’s victory.
In this way, Aston Villa linked their third consecutive defeat in these exhibition duels, while the Mexican team will face the Leagues Cup.
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