Cruz Azul was saved with a distressing draw with Toluca 1-1 and América beat FC Juárez 1-2 on the road

Cruz Azul and América, who played the last final of the Clausura 2024 tournament, managed to get ahead in the activity of date 4 of the Apertura 2024 championship by drawing 1-1 in a distressing manner with Toluca at the Ciudad de los Deportes stadium and beating FC Juárez 1-2 at the Benito Juárez Olympic Stadium in the border city of Ciudad Juárez.

Undoubtedly favorable results for both teams from CDMX, especially for América, which managed to recover from the defeat in the middle of the week against Tigres de la UANL and demonstrated this by winning 1-2 over FC Juárez. with goals from Henry Martin in the first half and from their recent signing, Uruguayan Rodrigo Aguirre, in stoppage time in a great setback.

Henry Martín had scored the first American goal by tying the match 1-1 with a goal determined by the VAR, after the Spaniard Aitor García put the Juarez team ahead. In the first minutes of the match, the home team went all out, but little by little the pressure eased and it was America that came out ahead with this victory that gave them back their spirits after the defeat against Tigres.

Thus, America has six points, with two wins and two losses, before waiting for its participation in the Leagues Cup that will have the entire Liga MX. against MLS teams and where the American team will be able to participate against the winner of the group that includes Atlas, Dynamo Houston and Real Salt Lake.

Cruz Azul was saved by a miracle

For its part, Cruz Azul, when it was thought that it could reaffirm the great demonstration it had in the middle of the week against the Xolos de Tijuana with a 3-0 victory, now became confident and by not taking advantage of the options The first 30 minutes of the game allowed the Red Devils to take the lead with a goal from Uruguayan Maximiliano Araújo in the 37th minute, which seriously put the Argentine Martín Anselmi’s team in a difficult position.

And even though Toluca did not put too much pressure on Colombian Kevin Mier’s goal, they did have the clearest chances to score, taking advantage of the fact that the Greek Giorgios Giakoumakis had wet gunpowder, wasting the options he had in the first half.

This is how the rest of the first half and almost the entire second half went, until in the 87th minute in a play by Giakoumakis He managed to connect with a header against his shoulder to give a pass to Ángel Sepúlveda who tied the game in the final minutes of the match to save the Máquina Celeste’s unbeaten record.

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