The away goal ceased to exist and in America they remember the previous edition of the tournament when they were left out for a score like that
Alvaro Fidalgo, one of the landowners of America de Santiago Solari, He confessed: “the last tournament for a goal away from home we were out”. The Spaniard, hired by the Eagles on the recommendation of the former Real Madrid coach, explains that “we can never settle for a draw”, but justifies the performance against Pumas, in CU, with “we must take care of the details.”
“What I’m telling you, let’s see, we can never settle for a draw, it’s 180 minutes, the last tournament for an away goal we were out. It is a zero to zero, take care of the details”Confessed Álvarao Fidalgo, América midfielder, after the scoreless draw with Pumas, in the first leg of the 2021 Apertura quarterfinals.
The reference for Álvaro Fidalgo is the quarterfinals of the Clausura 2020. America, brave, went to the attack against Pachuca, in the first leg, and ended with a 3-1 against, regardless of which Solari’s team had achieved qualification to the league directly and the Tuzos had reached that stage by way of the repechage.
“Tough game, we knew they were going to go out to score from the beginning, we had to appease that. It’s zero to zero, we have to go out to win, to win that game. Saturday ”, acknowledges the Spanish midfielder, who has gained followers as a player for America.
In the last league, the Eagles managed to come back at the Azteca stadium, with a 4-2 in favor, which tied the aggregate at five goals, but left America out for the visitor goal, a tiebreaker that does not exist now.
The bravery shown by the azulcrema team in the Clausura 2021 league was changed by a more timorous proposal in the Apertura 2021, in which the Eagles, the leader, opted for the defense against the team that was in the eleventh position of the table, “to take care of the details”.
“The great favorite is demonstrated by playing, in the matches, in the tie and if you are going to be the favorite, you have to demonstrate it by playing to the death at the Azteca Stadium”, Fidalgo acknowledges.
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