Monterrey, with a controversial penalty, takes advantage over Pumas: 1-0

The Rayados of Monterrey They were barely able to come out with their flags unfurled with a 1-0 victory over the UNAM Pumasaffected by a controversial penalty that seems very little for the return duel next Sunday in Mexico City.

A victory that came almost at the end of the game when the university students seemed to get their way with a goalless draw, but the penalty taken by the Spanish Sergio Canales could barely justify a match where the UNAM team imposed their conditions for most of the 90 minutes.

Because if it weren’t for that play in the 90th minute where the Colombian Johan Rojas forced the defender Pablo Bennevendo touched the ball with his hand inside the area and which Canales converted into a goal, the squad led by Argentine Gustavo Lema would have gotten away with a goalless draw.

At first the Pumas claimed that the penalty was a product of the inertia of the playbut in the end the VAR told the whistler Daniel Quintero that the marking was correct and with this they gave way to Sergio Canales’ shot that beat Julio González’s shot for the local victory.

In the end the advantage seems minimal compared to the other three league games, where Xolos de Tijuana and Atlético de San Luis have Cruz Azul and Tigres against the wall with three goals behind, while América is on the same path with two goals over Toluca.

For that reason, for the Pumas, the matter seems more like a with the conditions in which the match will be played at 12 noon and with the height of Mexico City where the Olympic University Stadium is located in the south of the Aztec capital.

Pumas made their game

Except for the penalty play already in the replacement time in which Pablo Bennevendo could not avoid touching the ball with his hand In the dribbling of the Colombian Rojas, the cautious approach that the Pumas used would have been perfect for them, since in the rest of the actions they did not let the Rayados’ offensive work, cutting the circuits.

This scheme made Rayados look split and with Canales very far from Germán Berterame and Jesús “Tecatito” Corona, forcing “Corcho” Rodríguez and Iker Fimbres and Oliver Torres to have more concern about opening the feline oyster than trying to generate a more intelligent game.

This resulted in a game of cat and mouse, where the cats were more practical, exasperating the Rayados, who lacked intensity and more play on the wings to open up an opponent who did not hesitate to put the truck behind and try to play with César Huerta, Ignacio Pussetto, Jorge Ruvalcaba and Piero Quispe some counterattacks that almost came to fruition and that would have put the Rayados in more trouble.

It could be questioned that Pumas was timid and timid with its stylebut really these games are 180 minutes and they were able to take out the least of the damage to try to take advantage of the game at home next Sunday to move forward in the league for the title of the Apertura 2024 tournament.

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