By Edgardo Avelar
It took twelve years for an old acquaintance of Mexican football to know what it is like to add another victory as he did tonight. Colombian coach Juan Carlos Osorio, who at the head of the Xolos Tijuana won 1-2 against the Gallos Blancos de Querétaro emulating that away victory Puebla’s 0-2 defeat of Pumas on February 12, 2012 on matchday six of the 2012 Clausura tournament.
Precisely 4,380 days later, approximately at the head of another project in Aztec football, the controversial Colombian coach who led the Mexican national team Without pain or glory in the 2018 World Cup, Professor Osorio appeared on the sideline of the field directing the Xolos and did so successfully by winningbeat the Gallos Blancos de Querétaro 1-2 on the first date of the Apertura 2024 tournament.
Osorio, faithful to his style of living every minute of the games to the fullest, making notes sitting on a cooler or squatting, knew how to take advantage of the qualities of its players to end up taking three valuable points at the start of the current championship.
Obviously, the former national coach of Mexico was the man of the night in his return to Liga MX, capturing the spotlight The media already paid more attention to what he did or did not do on the bench of the border team than to the party itself.
Xolos took the lead in the away game and controlled the ball in a very eventful back and forth and with constant arrivals like that shot by Domingo Blanco that could have entered the net, but goalkeeper Guillermo Allison saved the Gallos Blancos.
Xolos’ way of playing made Charly González receive a pass on the line of the area from Emanuel Reynoso, where the Paraguayan He positioned the ball to get away from Óscar Manzanares and turned around to nail the ball into the corner.
Querétaro felt hurt and went to attack Antonio Rodríguez’s goal, who with his interventions prevented the fall. from their goal at the moments when Querétaro tried hard to get to the rival goal, but without achieving their goal, going into the break with the advantage on the scoreboard for the border team.
The home team equalised in the second half. A mistake by Kevin Balanta with a formal pass was taken advantage of by Samuel Sosa to equalize.
But they took longer to celebrate than Xolos in scoring the winning goal, when Domingo Blanco gave the victory to Tijuana and Juan Carlos Osorio for a triumphant return in this tournament, in a duel where The return of the Colombian coach was actually more important than what Galos Blancos could have suggested, especially as they are keeping the Argentine Mauro Gerk at the helm, even though the results are not what they would have hoped for.
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