The Colombian midfielder James Rodríguez He scored on Saturday his first goal as a player of the Lion giving the triumph of 1-0 to his new club against Brave from Ciudad Juárez on the third day of the Mexican Soccer Clausura Tournament. James was announced on January 13 as a lion player, and five days debuted in the match corresponding to the second day that his team won the Atlas.
“Well, happy, the most important thing is to help this team, I want to help my classmates to play well and of course also to win. It is a big pride, but I think there is still a lot, we are on a good way and we have to Continue along this path, “Rodríguez said after the game. “You have to do things well, the most important thing was that it won today and that helped us more,” he added.
In the match played at the Nou Camp de León stadium, James Rodríguez scored his first goal in Mexico at 50 minutes with a placed penalty shooting that entered the left side of the goal, causing the joy of the 26,000 fans in the stadium . “James, James, James!” The fans cheered after the goal. The referee marked the maximum penalty in favor of León after goalkeeper Sebastián Jurado knocked down Ettson Ayón within the area.
The Colombian midfielder left the game at 80 minutes when he was replaced by Andrés Guardado, who returned from the retirement to play one more tournament with León. With the departure of Rodríguez, León lowered his intensity, a situation that Braves of Ciudad Juárez took advantage of to generate several goal options that they failed to realize thanks to the successful interventions of goalkeeper Óscar Jiménez.
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“I see a committed player, embedded in the dynamics of the group, in football it will grow and we will grow from its exquisiteness, it is an exquisite ball pin that we must explode. Content to train him, grow and grow around him,” he said The technical director of León, the Argentine Eduardo Berizzo, regarding Rodríguez.
