2023-07-17 02:24:00
Rafa Ramos ESPN Deportes Digital Analyst Jul 16, 2023, 10:24 p.m. ET Reading: 4 min.
Mexico achieved its ninth Gold Cup, thanks to a goal in the final stretch of ‘Chaquito’ Giménez, Jaime Lozano’s talisman striker
THE ANGELS — Santiago It means “God will reward.” And he did.
At minute 87. The divine and the pagan were conjugated and conjured. Coyoacan’s Maguito, Orbelin Pinedadelivers, like a spell, the longed-for ball, the fatalistic ball, the ball of destiny. Santiago Gimenez receives, makes a short cut, to the inside, frees himself from the mark and lines up, fighting, imagining, deciding where and how he will kick that ball on Mosquera’s exit. He is escorted by the snort, the whisper that grows until the scream in the throats of the 72,963 spectators. AND gimenez decide well. Neatly. 1-0, when the party coveted penalties. Mexico champion of the gold Cup.
A game locked, intense, without concessions. Of those in which there is no winner even if there is a winner, because the greatness of the defeated exalts the humble battle of the winner.
Jaime Lozano he came to raise a team in pieces. He got it. He anointed him with all the values of those who are willing to do anything, even the unthinkable. The #LamborJimmy reached the finish line.
Mexico won its ninth Gold Cup, with Santiago Giménez as the hero of the final against Panama.Imago7
BURDEN…
That Finale atmosphere. Tensile. Of anxiety. Of nerve. It erupts silently and thickly from the grandstand. Of a hobby that covers the epidermis indifferent to the rostrum, and sometimes fills it with whispers, sometimes with snorts, and sometimes with screams and mother’s lies.
And it is reflected on the field. Under alternate dominance. A conscious propensity to look for the adversary’s oversights, but also an unconscious concern for allowing one’s own oversights.
They both try. Panama He threatens first, with that exercise in speed and technique that he has acquired in the ability of accompaniment and partnerships. This is how he harvests the first yellow for Mexicowhich conditions Johan Vásquez.
But Mexico he elaborates, manages to cordon off and threaten at the ends. The Mexican arch and Guillermo Ochoa they hardly tremble with pernicious balls, but without the precise shot.
El Tri shakes the score at minute 32. Luis Romo, the genuine orchestrator of El Tri, finds a service up front, diagonally, at the end of Henry Martín. The goal releases the tensions of a contained platform, but it is only an explosion without reward. An out of place that they orchestrate between the referee Said Martínez and the VAR, props up the annulment of the goal. The 1-0 lived less than the Tobyrarragorri Club at the head of the selections.
Among the Panamanian dalliances, fertilized with fast, creative, luxurious plays, they swirl the Mexican defensive filter, and just a couple of shots curl up against Guillermo Ochoa’s chest.
Mexico got its ninth Gold Cup, thanks to a goal in the final stretch by ‘Chaquito’ Giménez, Jaime Lozano’s talisman striker.Imago7
The disallowed goal does not repress or inhibit the Mexican team. He has lung and order left for more, but the Panamanian defense would continue on a stoic and lucky night.
At minute 42 Romo appears again, with centers impregnated with poison. This time the shot is from Orbelín and Orlando Mosquera jumps to save. The counter-shot is by Henry Martín, between Mosquera and Fidel Escobar abort their desire for a goal. Missing about Henry? Neither the judge nor the VAR record it.
With that bitter taste he leaves Mexico at half-time, with the feeling that he was able to get the score out of the bland 0-0.
Thomas Christiansen bets on a double movement to prolong the wear on the bottom of Mexico and try to take advantage of the fact that four of his men already had a yellow card: Montes, Álvarez, Vásquez and Jesús Gallardo. He replaces Alberto Quintero and Eric Davis, by Cecilio Watterman and Eduardo Anderson.
Moments now when Panama sniffs at Mexican desperation and exerts its starts from further back, trying to create one against the Mexican defence, but Jaime Lozano’s response is drastic: he sends Erick Sánchez for Luis Chávez and Roberto Alvarado for Uriel Antuna .
Mexico balances a game that increasingly reflects the fatigue of the combined burden of tension, effort and anxiety. The marked card, the final bet is made by Jaime Lozano at minute 84. Santiago Gimenez enter the field. He and the service of Orbelín Pineda would end up making the difference.
In a gesture of nobility, of bonhomie, Santiago Gimenez He is desperately looking for the man with whom he wants to celebrate, to whom he wants to deliver the historic glory of the goal: Henry Martín.
The gold Cup returns home, as Guillermo Ochoa had promised on behalf of the team.
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