Mexico: Puebla defeats Chivas and reaches the quarterfinals |APNews

2022-10-10 11:01:13 By : Ms. Jane Liu

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Puebla squandered a one-goal lead on the final play of the game Sunday, but won 5-4 on penalties over Chivas to complete the quarterfinal round of the Mexican Apertura tournament.Martín Barragán scored a goal with a header in the 57th minute to put the Pueblans ahead, but Carlos Cisneros sent the game to penalties with a goal in the 96th.In the repechage there are no extra times and the game went straight to penalties, where the people from Puebla hit all their executions.Diego de Buen, the Argentine Federico Mancuello, Guillermo Martínez, Israel Reyes and Amaury Escoto completed from the 11 steps.Alexis Vega, Alan Mozo, Santiago Ormeño and Ángel Zaldívar scored, but Jesús Angulo crashed his attempt off the crossbar.Puebla, which was eighth in the regular season, will now face America, which finished first.In the other keys, Monterrey (2) will collide with Cruz Azul (7), Santos (3) will face Toluca (6) and Pachuca (4) against Tigres (5).The official times and days of the matches will be announced on Monday by the Mexican Football Federation.Puebla agreed to the league for the fourth consecutive tournament, all directed by the Argentine Nicolás Larcamón.Chivas added a new failure by staying out of a final phase to which it has only accessed twice since it was champion for the last time in Clausura 2017.Guadalajara dominated at the start of the match and came close to taking the lead after just 10 minutes, when Isaac Brizuela received a cross from the left and took a right-footed shot that crashed into the crossbar.Puebla turned the match around and seemed to take the lead with a shot by Jordi Cortizo that went into the back of the net, but the play was invalidated due to an offside.Before the break, at 34 minutes, Guadalajara knocked on goal again with a shot by Alexis Vega that was rejected by Paraguayan goalkeeper Anthony Silva.The poblanos went ahead when Barragán received a cross from the right, rose in the center of the area and hit a header that entered the left post by goalkeeper Miguel Jiménez.Puebla came close to extending its lead in the 60th minute, when Cortizo received a pass inside the area and took a low shot that sailed past Jiménez's left post.Chivas knocked on the door in the 67th minute with a shot by Carlos Cisneros that was contained by goalkeeper Silva, who at 82nd minute was once again a factor by rejecting an attempt by Ángel Zaldívar.The award for Guadalajara's insistence came when the match was over and Cisneros received a pass inside the area from the right and converted with a powerful shot that left Silva without a chance, to send the game to penalties.Before the match, fans of both teams met on an avenue in Puebla.In a video from the TUDN chain, it can be seen when fans from both sides face blows and throw stones at each other.Liga MX, in a statement, condemned the violence and asked fans to maintain order.With goals from Camilo Sanvezzo, Carlos González and Marcel Ruiz, Toluca defeated Ciudad Juárez 3-0 to advance to the quarterfinals.The Brazilian Sanvezzo put Toluca ahead in the playoff by scoring in the 23rd minute with a shot from outside the area.The Paraguayan González took advantage of a pass from the Uruguayan Leonardo Fernández to increase in the 45th minute and Ruiz sealed the account in the 90th."We took the first step and we're in the league, where we're going against a rival that does things well," Toluca coach Ignacio Ambriz said.Toluca is looking to get its first league title since the Clausura 2010 tournament, when they lifted the tenth crown in their history.To put an end to the drought, the Red Devils leadership signed half a dozen players in the summer, including Brazilian goalkeeper Tiago Volpi, Chilean midfielder Jean Meneses, Paraguayan González, Colombian Andrés Mosquera and Fernando Navarro."If we talk about investment, we could say yes (they are favorites), but we are a team that has been forming and investments do not play a role, if that were the case, we would already be in the final," added Ambriz.Ciudad Juárez was seeking access to a league for the first time in its history."We had the desire to advance to the phase, with a team that wanted to be the protagonist, but the reality is that we are still not enough to compete with these teams," said Argentine coach Hernán Cristante."We need to acquire hierarchy and that is achieved either with work or with investment and we bet on work."