América vs Querétaro: everything you need to know about the debut of the Águilas in the Closing Tournament of Mexican soccer

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Everything is ready for the start of the Closing Tournament of Mexican soccer and one of the most anticipated debuts is always that of the Águilas del Américathose directed by Tano Ortiz start again as the big favorites to take the first place in the league and even to advance in the fight for the conquest of the championship.

The Eagles’ debut will take place at the Azteca stadium next Saturday, January 7 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time, when they host Querétaro FC, a team that, contrary to the Azulcrema, starts out as the most modest and without great projections of advancing in the championship. It should be noted that contrary to América, Querétaro is the team with the lowest economic value squad, with a total of $20 million dollars.

Ups and downs of America and Querétaro

The Eagles of America for their part, They arrive with the well-known low Guillermo Ochoa who decided not to renew with the Azulcrema, in the same way they have the more than probable casualties of the Paraguayan Bruno Valdez and the Spanish Jorge Meré. As for the team’s additions, we can mention those of Israel Reyes and the former Necaxa goalkeeper Luis MalagónFor now, the arrival of the Costa Rican star Keylor Navas remains in hallway rumors.

For its part, Querétaro announced a few hours before the start of the Clausura Tournament, the hiring of 11 reinforcements, many of them footballers from small clubs or discards such as Gil Alcala who will arrive from Pumas. Miguel Barbieri will arrive from Toluca as will the Colombian Raúl Zúñiga from the Dorados de Sinaloa. Above, the White Roosters were reinforced with Argentine forward Jonathan Torres from Club Atlético Sarmiento.

For their part, players like Jordan Silva will return to Cruz Azul and Antonio Rodríguez to Chivas, they were footballers who were on loan in Querétaro. For his part, Ariel Nahuelpán will arrive at Mazatlán FC and Mario Osuna joins the ranks of FC Juárez.

Possible alignments of America and Querétaro

Fernando “Tano” Ortiz would go out to the match against Querétaro with his luxury 11:

Goalie: Oscar Jimenez.

defenses: Miguel Layún, Nestor Araujo, Israel Reyes, Salvador Reyes.

midfielders: Richard Sanchez, Alvaro Fidalgo, Alejandro Zendejas, Diego Valdes.

strikers: Jonathan Rodriguez and Henry Martin.

For their part, those directed by Mauro Gerk would form as follows:

Goalie: Washington Aguerre.

defenses: Gabriel Rojas, Enzo Martinez, Daniel Cervantes, Omar Mendoza.

midfielders: Jorge Hernandez, Kevin Escamilla, Clifford Aboagye, Jose Madueña.

strikers: Pablo Barrera and Ángel Sepúlveda.

Background between both teams

Clearly, this debut for América is against a rival that looks very simple on paper, even being one of the Liga MX teams with the least prospects for what will be this Clausura Tournament.. However, in the last five matches, although the statistics favor the azulcrema, the difference is not much.

America in the last five games added two victories, one draw and the White Roosters took a win.

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