Giorgios Giakoumakis in Poseidon style debuts with a double in Cruz Azul's victory

Without exaggeration and keeping the proportions, but as if it had been a passage from the Greek mythology of the god Poseidon, Cruz Azul’s new signing Giorgios Giakoumakis He made his debut in Liga MX by scoring a double in the Máquina Celeste’s 3-0 victory over the Xolos de Tijuana, where the European striker, recently signed from Atlanta United of the MLS, seemed to enchant the followers of the cement squad in the blink of an eye with his great performance. in the third consecutive victory for the Cruz Azul team.

In front of almost 30 thousand fans, Giakoumakis improved in the match and after overcoming his moments of anxiety at the beginning of the game against the border squad led by the former coach of the Mexican national team, Colombian Juan Carlos Osorio started his engines to score his first two goals in the Liga MX that dazzled the fans of the team led by Argentine Martín Anselmi.

Giakoumakis’ performance certainly made a hit with the fans and they revered him as he left the pitch around the 59th minute when he had already done enough damage with two well-crafted goals that caused the public to revere him as if he were Poseidon, the god of the seas in Greek mythology, arriving at Olympus.

Obviously, Giorgios’ two goals were the icing on the cake in another authoritative performance by Cruz Azul, which thus takes over the overall lead in the table. reporting on the border squad with whom he shared credits for the two victories of the Xolos over Querétaro and Chivas del Guadalajara.

Now the team led by Anselmi, who made several changes to his lineup, added the third victory after having defeated in the first match against Mazatlán FC and the 4-0 thrashing of Monterrey in the last match that has the Machine on its hind legs.

LThe positive side of the Celeste’s victory is that they are showing that the reinforcements they brought in, such as Jorge Sánchez, Luis Romo and Andrés Montaño, have adapted immediately. and they have come to shore up a team that in the last tournament lacked quality replacements.

Now, together with the Greek Giakoumakis, they have the luxury of boasting an arsenal that has players on the bench like the Uruguayan Camilo Cándido, Angel Sepulveda, Uriel Antuna and Alexis Gutierrez who were fundamental in the last tournament and now Anselmi will have to rotate them to move all his people.

The match

It is true that the first minutes were not easy and even less so after the referee Ismael Rosario López They were not awarded a penalty after reviewing the action in the VAR due to a foul by Joe Corona on Ignacio Rivero which caused a head injury, but did not merit the maximum penalty

However, Cruz Azul continued to grow until, in the 33rd minute, Giakoumakis made his debut in Mexican soccer with a highly crafted goal by launching himself in a showy dive inside the area almost at ground level that transformed A faulty cross from Uruguayan Rivero was successful and went in close to the base of the Xolos goal post without goalkeeper Toño Rodríguez being able to do anything.

That’s when the whole scene changed and people started to fall in love with the Greek, as he raised his fist in celebration and the fans showered him with applause, motivating him to continue forward with his teammates. Then came the 2-0 scored by Ignacio Rivero and with that things began to move smoothly.

For the second half, Giakoumakis reaffirmed his good performance with his second goal in the 51st minute with a powerful shot in the center of the area from a corner kick that left the border defenders with no options and opened the scoring. hearts were wide open for Juan Carlos Osorio’s team, causing the crowd to give themselves over to the new striker of the Celestes in what they predict will be a great season with the first of the pages of this story of a Greek in Mexican soccer.

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