The six consecutive victories with which they reached the 191st edition of the ‘Young Classic’ were of no use to Cruz Azulbecause at the right time America spoke on the field to get out of their football slump and beat them with total dominance in the first half where the goal by naturalized Mexican Julián Quiñones was enough to build the final 1-0 victory.
It was really demonstrated that America knows how to play these kinds of games and that for that reason they are the true champions, because the score really came out cheap for the celestials, well They disallowed four goals from Quiñones himself that would have once again established a scandalous scoreboard in this rivalry and that made it clear that the moment that the cement team led by the Argentine Martín Anselmi is going through is a mirage.
Simply the victory of the Águilas shows that there is a lot of difference between both teams, because while the team led by the Brazilian André Jardine is to continue as the protagonist and favorite for the title, the Cruz Azul of the Argentine Anselmi did not take the definitive step towards the competitive. but remained in the field of the competing troupe squads.
It is a fact that the cement workers had a “Waterloo” in the first 45 minutes giving the sensation of leaving with fearleaving aside the intensity of the previous eight games where, except for Pachuca, they beat Mazatlán, Xolos, Atlético San Luis, Querétaro, Tigres and León, as well as a draw with FC Juárez, but now against América it is nothing It served them.
It seemed that Jardine studied them very well, because with open play on the ends with the Mexican-American Alejandro Zendejas and Julián Quiñones they drove the Cruz Azul defense crazy in the first half.
Quiñones ties the world record for goals disallowed by the VAR
Precisely the dominance of America in the first half generated that The four goals disallowed by Julián Quiñones will tie a world record for scores invalidated by the VAR As happened in Italian football on July 25, 2020, when in the match between Sassuolo and Napoli the referee disallowed four goals from the visiting team so that the Neapolitans won 2-0.
The first disallowed goal occurred four minutes after the 1-0 that Quiñones himself scored 3 minutes into the action, when the American forward appeared in front of the rival goal to finish with a header, placing the ball close to the corner, however the goal from the naturalized Mexican was annulled for advanced position.
Shortly after, Quiñones himself He was present on the scoreboard when in a series of rebounds inside the area the ball nestled in the net but was ahead at the time of the shot. The third disallowed goal went to Chilean Diego Valdés when he sent the ball to the back, but he was ahead when the Cruz Azul defense crossed the line and the goal was disallowed.
Finally six minutes later, Julián Quiñones himself found the ball inside the area and pushed the ball into the nets, but again he was ahead in his intention to resolve the play and was only a few centimeters ahead of the defenders to declare the four goals annulled. and tie the record that was set four years ago in Italian football.
Now for Quiñones, the Liga MX play review system annulled four plays in the first half to tie that world record that, if they had been validated, would have given a scandalous score in another edition of the capital classic.
Simply Beyond the 1-0 it was clear that Cruz Azul is far from being a reality and that America had only gone through a crisis in the last three games, but that it has returned to its level after imposing himself with authority on the cement producers.
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