America got bitten by the crest and got very angry.
Las Águilas knew how to react to a couple of blows from FC Juárez to take the 2-1 victory, on a night in which Renato Ibarra’s return to activity with the club was expected, which in the end did not happen.
The azulcremas suffered more at the border, but they rescued the victory that kept them at the top of the ranking, despite the losses due to injury and the controversy with which they arrived at the Olympic Benito Juárez.
Santiago Solari seems to have a magic wand. The Argentine DT surprised by sending an initial 11 very different from the one shown in Jalisco three days ago, with full-backs Salvador Reyes and Miguel Layún as midfielders.
The strategist was not wrong. The former soccer player from Puebla assisted Roger Martínez for the first American goal, while the Veracruz player sent the goal pass with which the Eagles took the victory.
But the feathered ones suffered more against some Braves who still did not win in the fair and who had gone up on the scoreboard at 30 ‘with a goal from Martín Galván, a minute before Martínez’s draw.
In addition, Ricardo Ferretti’s squad took the reins of the game and once again rocked the net from the hand of Gabriel Fernández, signing an arrival at the far post; However, the VAR suggested to the whistler to cancel the goal out of place, something that Luis Enrique Santander endorsed, who did not bother to go to the monitor despite the tightness of the play.
That did not matter to America that again, a minute after the scare, it found the door thanks to Álvaro Fidalgo who entered the small area alone to seal Layún’s measured service at 52 ‘.
Bravos threw everything to the front, he stayed close to scoring with services to the area, but also to concede the 3-1 with a couple of actions by Henry Martín, who could not score, first due to a good closing of Adrián Mora and later by a extraordinary save by Hugo González.
The most dangerous of the “Tuca” pupils reached 90 ‘+ 1, with a distant shot that Guillermo Ochoa sent to a corner kick with the tip of his left glove; After the charge, Sebastián Córdova led a counter that José Esquivel cut with a sweep from behind, which cost him his expulsion.
With little merit, but with forcefulness, America came out with the triumph of the border and remained, with 13 units, at the top of the match, leaving the Braves in the last places of the classification with only 2 points.
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