The Uruguayan Jonathan Rodríguez scored this Saturday in the triumph of the Eagles of America 2-1 over the UANL Tigers, result with which the capital team rose to first place in the Apertura 2022 tournament of Mexican soccer.
In addition to Rodríguez, who came to five goals in the championship, Alejandro Zendejas was the other scorer for América in the game on the twelfth day of the Apertura. The French Andre-Pierre Gignac discounted by cats.
America reached 25 points to assume the leadershipwhile the Tigers are in fifth place with 21 units.
The Eagles They came out of the game with a stir and in the first minute they went ahead on the scoreboard when Alejandro Zendejas crossed a pass to Jonathan Rodríguez, who made it 1-0.
However, the tigers they answered in their first approach to the rival area. Vladimir Loroña, from the right, hit the second post where Gignac controlled the ball and finished off for 1-1 at 9.
The cats they disappeared of the match after the Frenchman scored, while the Eagles looked for the second goal that took a long time to come due to rejections by Argentine Nahuel Guzmán, goalkeeper of the Tigres, who rejected a shot by Paraguayan Richard Sánchez at 29.
The insistence of America it became a score at 45+2. The Chilean Diego Valdés intercepted a pass from the Tigres defense, gave the ball to the Spanish Álvaro Fidalgo, who leaked a pass that Zendejas converted in the 2-1.
América remained in the second half as the best squad on the pitch against some tigers They didn’t react.
Despite dominating, the Eagles did not achieve their third goal of the day due to the good performance of Nahuel Guzmanwho took shots from Zendejas, at 53, and at 61, and one more to Emilio Lara at 65.
Two hours before they signed a couple of draws without goals in the Monterrey-Mazatlán FC and in the Atlas-Pumas UNAM. In another duel on Saturday, Pachuca defeated Santos Laguna 2-0.
The twelfth day began last Thursday with goalless matches between San Luis and Tijuana, and 1-1 in Querétaro-Puebla.
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On Friday, the Necaxa beat León 3-2 and Juárez FC drew 2-2 against Cruz Azul. The day will end this Sunday with the visit of Chivas del Guadalajara to Toluca.
