América in the direct league zone by defeating Pachuca 2-1

There they say that with the champion until death and America demonstrated this Wednesday the ability it has to move forward in critical moments by adding his third consecutive victory which allows you to leave the play in area and aspire to the direct league within of the first six places in the Apertura 2024 tournament.

Now the victim was Pachuca 2-1 at the Cuauhtémoc stadium in Puebla with an entry that had not been had in the entire tournament playing in the Sports City stadium in CDMX and now, faced with the administrative closure, he played in this plaza and the people responded with an attendance of almost 30 thousand fans.

The presence of his fans in this Puebla square gave him encouragement to overcome the first 16 minutes of the match when Pachuca started with all its strength and put André Jardine’s team on the ropes when Arturo “Ponchito” González He put them against the wall in the 16th minute with a header.

That score was the wake-up call for America to wake up and with goals from Alejandro Zendejas in the 42nd minute and from Alan Cervantes in the 46th minute starting the second half they turned the score around and were able add the third consecutive victory and the fourth in the last six games played.

This victory together with the 2-1 over Monterrey and the 5-0 over Mazatlán FC, placed the current two-time Liga MX champion within the top six places in the competition by reaching 27 points like Atlético San Luis, but by tying with Necaxa it allowed the Águilas to leave them out of the zone due to goal difference direct league.

America has truly had an impressive recovery after their defeat on matchday 10 at home 0-1 with Pumas where they have added four victories and two draws that have them even a stone’s throw away from surpassing Pumas and Monterrey to finish the tournament in the fourth place if the Rayados and the cats stumble in their last game.

But before making more plans, America will have the acid test next Saturday against Toluca in a preview of one of the bravest duels they could have in the league.

Pachuca barely put his hands in

As we already said, Pachuca started the game with such vehemence that it seemed that America would be its victim again, but the force It only lasted 16 minutes when Arturo González scored with a header to make it 1-0 that made América react and with a crushing style he was throwing the Hidalgo people into their own zone to take over the game.

So little by little, America was leveling the actions and trying to get to the front with the Uruguayans Rodrigo Aguirre and Brian Rodríguez, the latter pulled behind Henry Martín and on the other side with Alejandro Zendejas, while Alan Cervantes and Álvaro Fidalgo were in charge of pulling together the threads in the midfield.

The Eagles took control of the game and perhaps his dominion was not so overwhelming, but Pachuca could no longer generate anything up front and remained exposed to the American arrivals until in the 42nd minute, Alejandro Zendejas, with a shot from outside the area, was able to beat goalkeeper Carlos Moreno of Pachuca to make it 1-1.

The somersault

But the second half came and with a great goal from outside the area by Alan Cervantes At minute 46, the matter changed, since América with the flip on the scoreboard was the one who controlled the match and made the Tuzos try to recover the ground, but at the same time open their lines and break the game so that the Águilas were closer to scoring the third goal than to receiving the tying score.

But the American forwards did not perform well and thus the match went down in history to leave América in the top six. and in the play in zone with the 2-1 tonight at the Cuauhtémoc stadium.

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