Tiago Volpi, goalkeeper of Toluca in the blink of an eye went from being the hero to the villain of the Red Devils by missing two penalties on a fateful night that not even Alfred Hitchcock’s best script, pioneer of suspense and mystery, he could have described how these unfortunates happened in the home of the scarlet squad when they fell to Cruz Azul 0-1.
Volpi’s failure not only had a disastrous impact on the individual aspectbut also collectively for Toluca, because with those errors he prevented his team from turning the score around Cruz Azul and They ended up losing 1-0, to drop to third place, instead of having taken over the general leadership that they left in the hands of the Águilas del América and the second place in the hands of the cement workers, their perpetrators tonight.
Volpi’s deficiencies in the two penalty kicks cut a streak of 15 shots of this style that the Brazilian goalkeeper had hit consecutively and for that reason none of the Toluca fans believed in seeing how their hero of other afternoons missed these types of shots that would have been ground gold for the aspirations of becoming the best team in the regular phase of the Clausura 2024 tournament for the Scarlets.
The truth is that Cruz Azul played its game, it came to the Nemesio Diez Stadium to raffle off its physique to try to maintain third place overall, but the facts and its bravery, in addition to the failures of its adversaries, allowed them to even send the eleven led by Brazilian Renato Paiva to third place with the 1-0 victory achieved by the goal of Colombian Willer Ditta.
Even the Celeste Machine overcame the loss of its best man in defense, as the Argentine defender was in the 17 games. Gonzalo Piovi, who had to leave the field due to a blow to his left shoulder in the 45th minute due to a collision with the Chilean Jean Meneses
Many may say that Toluca was a better team than Cruz Azul on the Toluca field, but the reality is that the cement workers played an intelligent duel, taking the ball away and closing all the spaces for the Red Devils forwards like the Uruguayan Maximiliano Araújo, the Chilean Jean Meneses, Alexis Vega, Marcel Ruiz and Jesús Ángulo, who during the first 45 minutes seemed ineffective and causing Cruz Azul to be the lord and master of the actions.
For the second half, the duel was even, but the cement workers seemed to settle in better until the first penalty at 68 minutes. due to the trampling of the Colombian Ditta on the Uruguayan Araújo, that Brazilian goalkeeper Volpi missed when his shot missed the left side of Cruz Azul’s goal.
The incredible thing came five minutes later, when by the hands of the Uruguayan Camilo Cándido that opened the way for Volpi to wash away his mistake, but the psychological weight of the first failure played a trick on the Amazonian goalkeeper who arrived to hit his shot on the same left side in his second incredible failure and spoiling Toluca’s aspirations to at least tie the score.
From that double failure, Cruz Azul reinforced its confidence and headed towards adding the tenth victory of the championship to reach 33 units taking over the general sub-leadership, two points behind América, which with the defeat of Toluca automatically took over the lead in the general table.
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