By Gura Garcia
01 Sep 2024, 09:36 AM EDT
An epic and unique sky-blue rout was what was experienced in A new round of Liga MX was held when Cruz Azul’s cement machine defeated Club América 4-1 in a match that took place at the Ciudad de los Deportes Stadium. An image that was etched in the minds of fans was the dedication to heaven by Lorenzo Faravelli, when he scored his goal in honor of Juan Izquierdo, a Uruguayan player who recently lost his life.
In the 16th minute of play, after a corner kick, same one that was executed by Diego Valdéz, and Brian Rodríguez did not forgive and was able to score with a header to defeat Kevin Mier.
Then the 37th minute of the game would arrive and there was a rather dangerous chance from captain Erik Lira, but Luis Ángel Malagón was able to deflect the ball and send it to a corner kick.
But despite this, the players led by Martin Anselmi did not give up at all due to the pressure and motivation of a stadium with a totally enthusiastic sky-blue fan base and lots of shouts, chants, cheers and so on.
At minute 43 of the first half, Gonzalo Piovi was able to recover a ball from the middle of the field of play, he was able to send a direct pass to Carlos Rotondi who beat Richard Sánchez to the ball and sent it to Giorgos Giakoumakis to equalize the game at one goal each.
But the story did not end that way, since the team The home team had extra motivation in the second half and in less than 10 minutes of play they were able to turn the score around, thanks to a goal from Ángel Sepúlveda.
The 78 minutes of play, the changes were totally favorable for Martín Anselmi and Guty Gutiérrez scored the third goal for Cruz Azul’s cement machine. But that wasn’t all because at the end of the match, in the 89th minute, Lolo Faravelli scored the 40th goal to completely bury the Águilas del América.
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