By Edgardo Avelar
27 Oct 2024, 01:21 AM EDT
With the fastest goal in the history of Blue Cross scored by Ángel Sepúlveda 26 seconds into the game, beating Rafael Baca’s score by two seconds in the Clausura 2019 tournament, the cement producers once again won against Cougars in CU, now with a score of 0-2.
A goal from Sepúlveda that makes him the top scorer of the celestials in the current Apertura 2024 tournament and that puts the team led by Martín Anselmi only six points away from tying the record for the highest number of points in the history of the tournaments imposed by América with 43 units, but in the 19-day format .
While he came within just four points of tying his own record of points with 41 units in the Clausura Guardianes 2021 tournament and del León in the Clausura 2019, in what until now has been a spectacular tournament dominated by several areas of the competition and with this victory they reached the twelfth success to give another blow of authority.
Now they did it thanks to the seventh goal of the campaign from the Angel of the goal, as they call Sepúlveda when Pumas did not even settle on the field of play and then Ignacio Rivero at 12 minutes established a score that was impossible for the Pumas to reduce, having to accept the third defeat in the last four games at the Olympic stadium University.
In this way, it took the Machine less than 15 minutes to establish distance with the Pumas and head towards a victory that if Toluca does not win this Sunday the distance would be nine points with the same number of units to be played.
The actions
Cruz Azul simply took advantage of the facilities that the university team gave in the first half, where he did not exist in the midfield to the extent that he had to remove the Colombian, José Caicedo, from the field of play and send Jorge Ruvalcaba in his place, by virtue of which the coffee player seemed not to He brought the attitude to play in this match.
The cement producers took advantage of these facilities and with an offensive style that was splendor in the first 30 minutes, they controlled the rest of the match and ultimately headed towards a valuable victory.
The way Cruz Azul approached the match against the university students He did not miss the presence of Jorge Sánchez and much less that of the Greek Giorgio Giakoumakis, who were two important casualties, but it seems that the cement scheme works with any of the 22 players who are called up each week and now they have demonstrated it again.
For the second half Pumas improved too much and in the first 15 minutes of the match they had several opportunities to reduce the disadvantage, but the options of César “Chino” Huerta and the Argentine Ignacio Pusetto, as well as Rogelio Funes Mori spoiled any option for the Pumas.
The reality is that everything is going well for Cruz Azul and it is expected to maintain that pace, because in Mexico it is clear that how you finish matters more than how you start and in the Machine there are dark stories to fight in the history of the leagues that could prevent the conquest of the tenth star in Mexican soccer .
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