The Puebla of the Argentine coach Nicolás Larcamón defeated this Sunday, in the shots from the penalty spot, the Chivas from Guadalajara and after a 1-1 draw, they qualified for the quarterfinals of the Apertura 2022 tournament of Mexican soccer.
Jesús Angulo missed his shot, while Puebla had a perfect performance to win the tiebreaker 5-4, with which he signed his pass to the stage of the eight best in which he will face America.
The quarterfinal series will be played in round-trip matches with América-Puebla, Monterrey-Cruz Azul, Santos Laguna-Toluca and Pachuca-Tigres.
In the initial half the two teams had opportunities to score; Guadalajara with a crashed ball on the post, in the 11th minute, and with a dry shot by Alexis Vega, stopped by the Paraguayan goalkeeper Antony Silva, in the 35th.
The controversial play of the duel was in the 27th minute: Gilberto Sepúlveda swept into the area, touched the ball with his hand, but the referee did not award a penalty in favor of Puebla, who in the 40th created danger with the Argentine Federico Mancuello, whose shot came out deflected.
Puebla came out with advanced lines after the break and in the 58th minute they took the lead with the ninth goal of the championship by Martín Barragán, who picked up a pass from Emilio Martínez and headed past the goalkeeper.
Puzzled, Guadalajara struggled after the goal, but Puebla lacked forcefulness. In the 60th minute Jordi Cortizo ruled with everything in his favor to score and in the 79th minute the Colombian Omar Fernández shot from the outside in conditions of advantage.
Chivas left for a draw; Puebla de Larcamón stood up well, attentive to punishing with a counterattack. After much insistence, Guadalajara equalized in the last minute of the match with a goal by Carlos Cisneros from a pass from Angulo.
Diego de Buen scored for Puebla on penalties, Argentine Federico Mancuello, Guillermo Martínez, Israel Reyes and Amaury Escoto; Alexis Vega, Alan Mozo, Santiago Ormeño and Ángel Zaldívar did it for Guadalajara, but Angulo crashed the ball into the crossbar in the fourth round of shots.
Toluca thrashed Juarez at the other crossroads
Four hours before, Toluca sealed their pass to the top eight phase by thrashing Juárez FC 3-0, with Brazilian Camilo Sanvezzo, Paraguayan Carlos González and Marcel Ruiz scoring.
Toluca came down with a landslide against Juarez in Mexico
This Saturday, at the start of the reclassification matches, the Uruguayan Ignacio Rivero scored a goal to give Cruz Azul a 1-0 victory over León. The Celestes prevailed with a shot by Rivero in minute 72, after an error by goalkeeper Rodolfo Cota in a cross into the area by Uriel Antuna; It was his fifth consecutive win. Before, Tigres UANL defeated Necaxa 2-0 with a couple of goals from Frenchman André Pierre Ginac.
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