Mexico, Oct 29 (EFE).- América established itself with 33 points out of a possible 42 as the leader of the Mexican Apertura tournament while, with ten goals, the Colombian from Santos Laguna, Harold Preciado, is at the forefront of the scoring classification.
The Uruguayan Jonathan Rodríguez scored a double on Saturday for the azulcrema team led by the Brazilian André Jardine, and Alejandro Zendejas completed the 0-3 win in the Monterrey payments.
América was the owner of the match, but not everything was happy, as Uruguayan striker Brian Rodríguez suffered a delicate knee injury in a tough collision with defender Jesús Gallardo.
The Azulcremas have 10 wins in 14 games and are 5 points ahead of Tigres, who also beat Chivas de Guadalajara 0-4 on Saturday.
Argentine Nicolás Ibáñez scored two goals and Mexicans Diego Lainez and Marcelo Flores completed the beating.
Tigres has 28 points, 5 more than Monterrey, which is third.
Toluca beat San Luis 3-1 this Sunday in the debut of Uruguayan coach Carlos Morales and remained in the qualification zone for the quarterfinals.
With two goals from Jesús Angulo and one from Abraham Villegas, Toluca was better and rose to fifth place with 21 points, one less than San Luis, fourth in the standings.
The day began on Friday, when Paraguayan Braian Samudio gave Necaxa a 1-0 victory over Pumas UNAM and Mazatlán beat Querétaro 3-0, with goals from Paraguayans David Colman and Luis Amarilla and Mexican Francisco Venegas.
Pumas dropped to sixth place with 21 points, the same as Guadalajara, seventh.
In the other games this Saturday, Cruz Azul beat León 1-0 with a score from Ángel Sepúlveda and the Colombian Kevin Velasco scored the tying goal for Puebla at the Pachuca stadium, which took advantage with a left-footed goal from the Argentine Lucas Di Yorio.
This Sunday Harold Preciado scored a goal in Santos Laguna’s 5-1 win over Juárez.
The former Deportivo Cali player reached 10 goals and is one ahead of Carlos González, and two ahead of André-Pierre Gignac and Ángel Sepúlveda.
In the other Sunday duel, Tijuana beat Atlas 2-0 with goals from Colombian Christian Rivera and Kevin Castañeda.
– Matches of the fifteenth day of the Mexican Apertura:
31.10: Toluca-Puebla, Querétaro-Guadalajara, León-Pumas UNAM and Monterrey-Necaxa.
01.10: Atlas-Pachuca, Cruz Azul-Juárez FC, San Luis-América, Tijuana-Tigres UANL and Mazatlán-Santos Laguna.EFE
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2023-10-30 05:52:08
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