Cruz Azul reaffirms its authority in the Liga MX at the expense of Necaxa

Cruz Azul reaffirmed its authority in the current 2024 opening tournament of the MX League by beating Necaxa 3-0, which allows it to consolidate its lead in the general table with 28 points and leaves aside the rumors of a possible departure of the coach Martín Anselmi to Arab football.

In fact, while in recent days it was reported that Arabia was interested in Martín Anselmi and the sports director of the Machine, Iván Alonso, the Cruz Azul players played almost by note to defeat a Necaxa left too much behind and took home three goals.

The Celeste Machine was much superior in the facts and with goals from Alexis Gutiérrez, from the Argentines, Carlos Rotondi and his compatriot Lorenzo Faravelli gave shape to this score of 3-0, which allows the cement producers to reach nine victories to a draw and a defeat for 28 points at the top of the general table.

The cement producers did not care too much that their maximum offensive card, The Greek Giorgio Giakoumakis had his guns turned off in this matchlittle by little from the early hour they carved out victory with Alexis Gutiérrez’s goal at minute seven, and then with Carlos Rotondi’s score they increased the lead at minute 18.

For the second half Cruz Azul put the icing on the cake with Lorenzo Faravelli’s goal in the 61st minute that allowed the coach of the light blue Martín Anselmi to send the youngsters Amaury Morales and Mateo Levy to the field, in order to comply with the minor rule 20/11 that requires at least 1000 minutes for these minor players. age in this contest.

Cruz Azul, for its part, also had the luxury of postponing the reappearance of another of its strong offensive cards, such as the Uruguayan Gabriel “Toro” Fernández, who seems to be recovered after that injury that sent him to the operating room in the tournament. past due to a rupture of the cruciate ligaments in his right knee that kept him off the field for six months.

So for Cruz Azul it seems that nothing is hurting them, but we will have to wait and see what happens in their remaining duels against Puebla, FC Juárez, Pumas de la UNAM, Santos Laguna, Atlas and Tigres de la UANLto conclude their participation in the regular tournament.

On Necaxa’s side they really didn’t show anything. From the beginning they had many complications to put together their game system and in the end neither José Paradela, Diber Cambindo and much less Ricardo Monreal, as well as Fernando Arce, were able to make progress against the goal of Kevin Mier who really had a quiet night to take a great victory.

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