In the debut of the Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navasthe Pumas UNAM beat the White roosters Del Querétaro to achieve his first undefeated victory and goal in the Opening 2025 Tournament of Mexican football. In the match that opened the third day of the championship, Guillermo Martínez and Jorge Ruvalcaba marked by the felines, who left the last place of the classification to climb to the thirteenth, with three points.
Navas was not decisive in the result, since it was little demanded by the attack of the roosters. In the first half, the felines made a practical and effective football that allowed them to turn their only shot, when in the 14th minute Rodrigo López launched a corner kick per right that in the Martínez area nodded for 0-1.
In the second part, the Pumas sentenced the game in a backlash in 78 that ended with an assistance from Panamanian Adalberto Carrasquilla to Ruvalcaba, who defined 0-2 above the goalkeeper José Hernández. After that, the Colombian Álvaro Angulo, one of the reinforcements of the UNAM, was expelled, and that opened spaces to the white roosters, who tested Navas in 84 with a soft auction from Ecuadorian Jonathan Pearl that the Costa Rican stopped without shocks.
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In another match, Mexican Ricardo Marín gave the 1-0 victory to Puebla from Argentine coach Pablo Guede over Santos Laguna. It was the first triumph of Puebla in the tournament, with which those of Guede rose to the eleventh place, while the laguneros suffered their second defeat to fall to the seventh step. Juárez FC and Tijuana, meanwhile, tied one.
On Saturday the matches will conclude with the duels Pachuca-Mazatlán FC, Guadalajara-San Luis, Cruz Azul-León, Toluca-Tigres UANL, Monterrey-Atlas and Necaxa-América.
