The ‘Eagles’ of America coach Santiago Solari, who lost this Saturday 3-1 with Toluca, they remained as leaders of the Apertura, at the end of the ninth day this Sunday.
America has six victories, two draws, one loss and 20 points, the same as Toluca, by Argentine coach Hernán Cristante, who is ahead by better goal difference.
In its stadium, 2,240 meters above sea level, Toluca imposed conditions and showed it on the scoreboard to remove the undefeated from the ‘azulcremas’ with a couple of goals from Hared Ortega and one from Paraguayan Brian Samudio, while for America converted Henry Martin.
America and Toluca have four points of advantage about Atlas, which without much noise appears in third place; Argentine manager Dieco Cocca’s team defeated Necaxa 3-0 on Friday and confirmed their good step in the championship.
With two goals from Colombian Julián Quiñones and one from Argentine Julio Furch, Atlas was superior and, by keeping his goal at zero, he became the best defense of the tournament, with four goals accepted in nine games.
The day began on Thursday when Argentine Germán Berterame scored three goals to lead the win for San Luis to Tijuana; The South American caught up with Uruguayan Nicolás López at the top of the scorers’ standings, both with six goals.
This Saturday, Juárez FC, of the Brazilian strategist Ricardo Ferretti, gave the surprise of the weekend by beating as a visitor to Lion with a goal from Ecuadorian Jefferson Intriago.
Despite the setback, Leon goes room of the table, one point above the ‘Rayados’ of Monterrey of coach Javier Aguirre, who this Sunday beat 2-0 at UANL Tigers.
The Mexican Alfonso González and the Argentine Matías Kranevitter converted for Aguirre’s ‘Rayados’, who beat the Tigres coach, Miguel Herrera, in a fighting duel in which Monterrey showed a more practical football.
In the other results on Saturday, Mazatlán and Pumas UNAM drew 2-2 and Chivas de Guadalajara defeated Pachuca 1-0, with a goal from Jesús Angulo, despite which the rojiblancos board fired coach Víctor Manuel Vucetich .
This Sunday, the champion Blue Cross won 2-0 to Queretaro with annotations by the Ecuadorian Bryan Angulo and the Argentine Lucas Passerini and climbed to seventh place, two points from the direct qualifying zone to the quarterfinals.
In the closing duel of the day, this Sunday, the Dutch Alessio Da Cruz scored a goal in the final minutes and saved for Santos Laguna a 1-1 draw against Puebla, which took advantage with a score by Uruguayan Emanuel Gularte.
The tournament will resume from Thursday to Sunday with the Pachuca-Necaxa matches, on Thursday; Puebla-Cruz Azul, Juárez-Querétaro and Tijuana-Mazatlán, on Friday; Atlas-León, Tigres UANL-Pumas UNAM and América-Guadalajara, on Saturday, and Toluca-San Luis and Santos Laguna-Monterrey, on Sunday.
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