America must leave for a better occasion all your plans to win the double championship with which they assumed the Clausura 2024 tournament of the Liga MX and the 2024 edition of the Concachampions when they were eliminated tonight by a surprising Tuzos del Pachuca by 2-1 (3-2 overall), since in the first leg they had tied 1-1 and who were pointed out by everyone as sure victims for their young team, but in the end they showed great self-respect to leave out the powerful team of the Águilas.
In this way, Pachuca reaffirmed its dominance in key duels over the Águilas on six occasions that have had to define something important. The first time was in the run-up to the grand final of the Summer 2001 tournament, where the Tuzos emerged victorious with an overall score of 3-2.
Then it was given perhaps the one that weighed the most on the American heart, when in the final of the Clausura In 2007, the Hidalgo squad won the Mexican soccer title with a score of 3-2, where one of the most significant events was the last game of the great idol Cuauhtémoc Blanco.
Then they passed eight years, so that Pachuca in the Clausura 2015 once again left the Coapa team on the road, Now in the 4th finals, where both teams came away with nothing with a spectacular series that ended 7-5 in favor of the Bella Airosa squad.
Pachuca did the same on two more occasions: in the Quarterfinals of the Guardianes 2021 tournament, where the Tuzos obtained the pass thanks to the visitor’s goal in a series that ended 5-5 overall, and then in the Clausura 2022 Semifinals, where the Águilas fell 4-1, already being led by Fernando Ortiz.
For its part, America has only managed to beat Pachuca on three occasions and that was in the round of 16 of the 2007 Copa Sudamericana.The 4th finals of the Clausura 20212 tournament and the round of 16 of the Copa Mx in 2019.
Pachuca’s victory really generates a very important impact, since no one took for granted that Pachuca could achieve this important victory, especially because America did not hesitate to throw all the meat on the grill with a lineup with all its great figures from the goalkeeper Luis Malagón to the forwards Henry Martín and Julián Quiñones, passing through Israel Reyes, Sebastián Cáceres, Igor Lichnovsky, Cristián Calderón, Jonathan Dos Santos, Álvaro Fidalgo, Alejandro Zendejas and Diego Valdés.
The match
But not even that was able to impress Pachuca, which with a team supported by the experience of the Ecuadorian Andrés Micolta, the Argentine Gustavo Cabral, Erick Sánchez, the Colombian Nelson Deossa, the Dutch Oussama Idrissi and the Venezuelan Salomón Rondón, encouraged the rest of the youngsters of the Hidalgo team to offer a great game and put America against the canvas.
But the eleven directed by the Brazilian André Jardine once again showed doubts in its functioning like those that They led him to lose with Pumas de la UNAM 2-1 on date 16, They did not show the forcefulness to recover from the two goals that Pachuca gave them through Miguel Rodríguez and the Colombian Nelson Deossa.
These notes sent the Americanists out of control, and despite the moments of desperation, they began to recover. and with Henry Martín’s goal in the 21st minute they showed that they could achieve the goal that would give them a place in the grand final. of the tournament of the North, Central America and Caribbean Confederation (Concacaf), but the Tuzos did not give up and intertwined with the Americanists in a duel of give and take.
For the second half, Pachuca fell a little further back, giving the initiative to América, who threw all their troops forward, trying to ensure that Álvaro Fidalgo and Alejandro Zendejas They could connect with Diego Valdés, Henry Martín and Julián Quiñones.
But the team led by Uruguayan Guillermo Almada responded in the same way and with whips by Erick Sánchez, Oussama Idrissi, Salomón Rondón and Nelson Deossa, as well as the youngsters Miguel Rodríguez, Alan Bautista and the Argentine Sergio Barreto who gave him the strength to arrive with danger and be closer to increasing the advantage to close the score, than being surprised by América.
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