No surprises, since Juan Reynoso anticipated a renewed team at the border to face FC Juárez, Blue Cross he tried not to become the first team to suffer a defeat at the hands of the Braves, however, he did little to prevent it. Thus, the squad led by Tuca Ferretti celebrated the Benito Juárez his first win so far of this tournament with a 2-1.
Yes, a diminished champion with selected casualties, even cases like that of Jonathan Rodriguez i Bryan Angulo that they have not yet arrived in the country; but with an alternate box not enviable for any other team in the MX League.
Thus, the Peruvian coach launched a strategy with new faces to ownership as one Andrés Gudiño, José Joaquín Martínez, Alexis Gutiérrez, Walter Montoya and Lucas Passerini to try to keep sinking the whole border.
The task began simple, not even five minutes were drawn on the clock when the Celtics celebrated the first goal and with that came the respite of the coaching staff who chose to keep Santiago Giménez and Roberto Alvarado on the bench.
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Shaggy Martinez behind the midfield threw a long pass that was received by Pol Fernández, The Argentine player placed him in the danger zone and despite the presence of three rival defenses, Passerini made his way and hit the ball to beat Hugo González and celebrate his first goal with the Machine in the MX League since his arrival in the suspended Clausura 2020 tournament.
With a week and a half of preparation time, in addition to facing a diminished enemy with nine casualties, Ferretti could not miss the opportunity to get his first victory in this new project. The message was clear and in the 12th minute he made his first change to order his defense with the entry of José Juan García instead of Flavio Santos.
Little by little, Juárez invaded the cement area and with a corner kick they took the first step for the comeback. Pol Garcia won the position to Juan Escobar to beat Gudiño and so the 1-1 caused the traditional party of lights at the Olympic Benito Juárez.
The stopped ball became the evil of the Machine, before going to the half, the borderers were able to get to the top with the claim of Víctor Velázquez, Who defined with his head the long service of Matías García. The central defender, after erring in the celestial goal, took advantage of the terrible defensive execution of Passerini to arrive and to win to him in all the aspects; the shot resulted in 2-1.
Reynoso adjusted his team and gave entrance to Roberto Alvarado with Santiago Giménez for the complement. Immediately the youth striker took command of the attack and had a couple of rebounds in the area next to Passerini to restore calm to the Celtics, however, he was unlucky.
On the other hand, Pol Garcia generated nerves in the celestial fans when facing Gudiño with a powerful cross shot that rejected of good way the goalkeeper of the cement.
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For the final minutes, the duel focused on the strategies from the benches with the different changes that the two coaches launched. On the one hand, Reynoso threw everything, Rodrigo Huescas had another chance and refreshed legs with Julio César Domínguez and Adrián Aldrete in the saga.
While the Tuca entrusted Jaume Gómez and Luiz Pavez with the purpose of maintaining their advantage, but not sacrificing the attack. precisely, the former Tigers took the game by maintaining the victory and not see it ruined by the current champion of Mexican football who is left with 10 minutes and four games without being able to win hoping to break the moment on Thursday when they receive Rayados in the Azteca to close the Semifinal of the Champions League of CONCACAF and know their luck in this tournament that is marked as an obligation a The ferris wheel.