By Edgardo Avelar
Nov 17, 2024, 00:17 AM EST
Cruz Azul’s Celestial Machine tied again with the Tigres de la UANL 1-1 in an exhibition duel at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas, repeating the score they recorded last week in the last game of the Apertura 2024 tournament.
A match that served both teams to move his players ahead of the important league that is coming up in ten days when both squads know which rivals they will have to face at the start of the final series and who will come from the four teams that will play in the play in this week, such as América, Tijuana, Atlas and Chivas.
Unlike what happened the previous Saturday at the Ciudad de los Deportes stadiumnow the Machine was the one that managed to get ahead on the scoreboard with a goal from the Greek Giorgios Giakoumakis in the 19th minute of action in a cross from the left wing by the Argentine defender Gonzalo Piovi who reached almost the baseline to send the ball on arrival to the Giakoumakis area who only had to push the ball into the nets.
The cement producers began with several movements in their alignment, such as goalkeeper Raúl Gudiño, Amaury García, Andrés Montaño, Jorge García, Cristian Valdivia, while the starters saw action from the beginning Gonzalo Piovi, Willer Ditta, Lorenzo Faravelli, who was one of the best news of the Machine after his absence of two games due to injury.
As well as Ignacio Rivero, Carlos Rotondi and the Greek Giorgios Giakoumakis, who showed that he is ready for the league after his instability in the starting team due to muscle problems, he was the scorer of the goal in the first half.
While for the Tigres of the UANL they began with Fernando Tapia, Juan Purata, Samir de Souza, Juan Vigón, Nicolás Ibáñez, Jesús Garza, Sebastián Córdova, Uriel Antuna, Marcelo Flores, Fernando Ordóñez and rookie Fernando Parra.
The Argentine goalkeeper Nahuel Guzmán was absent from the feline squad.Jesús Angulo, Diego Lainez and Jonathan Herrera, for having been called up to the national team, as well as the French André-Pierre Gignac, the Uruguayan Fernando Gorrarías, Javier Aquino, and the Argentine Guido Pizarro.
The feline squad tied in the second half through an own goal by Argentine defender Gonzalo Piovi when he wanted to clear a cross and ended up sending it into the enemy nets in his second consecutive mistake, since last week he committed the penalty on Uriel Antuna that put the cats ahead and that the Machine ended up tying in the end with a score by Ángel Sepúlveda.
During the meeting, both technicians, the Argentine Martín Anselmi for Cruz Azul and the Serbian Veljko Paunovic They moved their people with the intention of not losing pace and being able to face the league as their status of first and second places in the general table deserves.
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