America is leader of the Apertura after beating Chivas de Guadalajara 2-1

09/19/2022 at 06:37

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The Eagles beat champion Atlas 2-0

Cruz Azul defeated Pumas UNAM 1-2

The Eagles of America, who won the derby this Saturday 2-1 against the Chivas de Guadalajararemain the leader of the Apertura 2022 tournament of Mexican soccer, in which the Argentine Nicolás Ibáñez, from Pachuca, is the best scorer.

When there is a day to play, America has 11 wins, two draws, three losses and 35 pointsone more than Monterrey, four above Pachuca and five above Santos Laguna, the other teams in the direct qualifying zone for the quarterfinals.

America secured the win with the tenth goal of Mexican Henry Martín, sub-leader of the scorers, in a penalty shot, and Alejandro Zendejas, a pass from Martín. For Chivas, Cristian Calderón discounted.

The victory allowed the Eagles of Argentine coach Fernando Ortiz to continue ahead of the Rayados de Monterrey, who, on another Saturday night, They beat champion Atlas 2-0 and confirmed their sinkingwith goals from Chilean Sebastián Vegas and Mexican Jesús Gallardo.

This Sunday Pachuca led San Luis 1-2 and Santos, 2-0 against Juárez FC.

The Argentine Ibáñez was left alone as the leader of the scorers with 11 goals, one more than Henry Martín and the Colombian Avilés Hurtado converted his third goal of the championship, to guide Pachuca to victory over San Luis, who discounted through the Uruguayan Abel Hernández, with eight annotations in the tournament.

Santos won with goals from Colombian Harold Preciado and Argentine Marcelo Correa.

In other duels this Sunday, Cruz Azul defeated Pumas UNAM 1-2 and was confirmed in the playoff zone, as was León, winner of Querétaro 3-1, while Necaxa tied 1-1 at Tijuana.

on friday Puebla beat Tigres 2-1 and Toluca drew 1-1 at the Mazatlán stadium, in the other matches of the fifteenth day.

With the matches of date 16 played in advance, the regular phase of the championship will conclude with date 17, from September 30 to October 2 next.