The Celeste Machine with an agonizing goal avoids a cross and breaks the points record

When all the ghosts that have haunted Blue Cross After failing at the right time, Ángel Sepúlveda appeared to score an agonizing goal that allowed the Celeste Machine to avoid a blue cross by drawing 1-1 with Tigres and thus setting a new record for most points in Liga MX.

because when Argentine defender Gonzalo Piovi made a childish mistake about Uriel Antuna that gave way to the penalty goal by Argentine Nicolás Ibáñez, all the fears and fears of the celestial fans flooded the stands of the Ciudad de los Deportes stadium with the idea that they would have to accept the 0-1 defeat in the 87th minute.

But no one thought that in the 90+7 minute, when referee Adonai Escobedo almost whistled the end of the game, Sepúlveda arrived from the left side to dove and connect the center of the Uruguayan Ignacio Rivero that surpassed the mark of Diego Reyes and Javier Aquinas to beat the Argentine goalkeeper Nahuel Guzmán and give way to the incredible tie.

A play taken from Ripley that It became the result that all the cement fans expected to celebrate the new record of 42 points in the 17-day modality, surpassing the 41 of Cruz Azul itself in the Clausura 2021 tournament and of León in the Clausura 2019.

Although it is true that It was pending for the Machine to surpass the 43 points of America of the Apertura 2002 tournament, the reality is that this season with this ending not suitable for the faint of heart had the icing on the cake and the motivation to go for the long-awaited tenth title in the history of Mexican soccer.

divine justice

The reality is that Sepúlveda’s goal represented divine justice in a match controlled by Cruz Azul in almost all of the 90 minutes, because except for the beginning of the hostilities in which Tigres put intensity into the actions, the reality is that after the departure of the Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac in the minute 10, decided to retreat and bet on a tie.

So the Celestial Machine was the one that made the expenseplaying with a different scheme up front, with two nines, taking advantage of the fact that their main point guard was the Argentine Lorenzo Faravelli, with which they had an offensive presence, but with little generation in the midfield, especially because Luis Romo seems superfluous in many actions.

But even with all those factors, Cruz Azul had the clearest options to score and take the lead on the scoreboard, but the Greek Giorgios Giakoumakis and Ángel Sepúlveda himself did not perform well throughout almost the entire game, while Carlos Rotondi did not have his best match either.

This resulted that the duel was developing with a scheme that Tigres conformed to and it was not until the 87th minute when after the referee’s error by Adonai Escobedo in not awarding a corner kick when resuming the game after checking if there was a penalty in favor of Cruz Azul for alleged hands of Diego Reyes.

The evidence showed that there was no shooting against the felinesbut he resumed with a bounce to the ground in favor of the cats and in a clearance by Nahuel Guzmán he put Uriel Antuna in the area, winning the play against Gonzalo Piovi so that they scored a penalty that the Argentine Ibáñez converted into a goal and put Cruz Azul against the wall.

The ghosts are over

Just at that moment the ghosts appeared for Cruz Azul, who desperately tried to find the tie, but his haste worked against him, until referee Escobedo was almost about to blow the final whistle, Rivero’s cross and Sepúlveda’s miraculous shot arrived that put an end to the ghosts and put the striker as sub-leader of He already scored the Cement Machine with the record of points in his bag.

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