The Eagles won 1-3 with goals from Valdés, Martín and Cáceres and only conceded an own goal, also from Valdés
The team’s sixth consecutive win lifts it to the top of the table
The Eagles of America They defeated this Friday by 1-3 to Mazatlan and they became the new leader of the Apertura 2022 tournament of Mexican soccer, in which they added their sixth consecutive victory. On matchday 11 of the championship, Chilean Diego Valdés, Mexican Henry Martín and Uruguayan Sebastián Cáceres scored for the Águilas, who reached seven wins, one draw, three losses and 22 points, one more than Monterrey and Toluca.
In Mazatlán, in the Mexican Pacific, the home team had a good first half and started with an advantage due to an own goal from Valdes in the 12th minute, but in the 39th the South American himself paid the debt with a right-footed goal for the top corner from a pass from the Spanish Álvaro Fidalgo. After the goal, the Eagles of Argentine coach Fernando Ortiz took control of the game. in 45 Martin he confirmed himself as the leader of the scorers with seven goals, scoring with his left foot from Miguel Layún’s pass for 1-2.
América started the second half with advanced lines and in minute 49 he scored his third goal with a header from Caceres in another Fidalgo assist. Mazatlan suffered in 1958 the expulsion of Carlos Vargas, for a double warning, which left the local team without tools to turn the game around. With two wins, five draws and four losses, Mazatlan appears thirteenth in the table. América has six victories in six outings in August, with 19 goals for and three against, which illustrates the moment of high sporting form of the azulcrema team.
A couple of hours before the Argentine Matthias Garcia scored a goal in the 69th minute and saved for the Juarez FC a tie 2-2 at the house of Puebla. The Uruguayan Maximilian Araujo Y Martin Barragan scored for the Puebla of the Argentine coach Nicolás Larcamón, while Carlos Iron and Matías García did it for Hernán Cristante’s Juárez.
This Saturday, Tigres UANL will host Necaxa in search of a victory that will put them in first place and keep them there, if Monterrey and Toluca do not win on Sunday. In other Saturday duels, Cruz Azul will host Querétaro and Chivas de Guadalajara will host Pumas UNAM, and on Sunday they will play Toluca-Pachuca, León-Atlas, Santos Laguna-San Luis and Tijuana-Monterrey.