Mexico City /
Cruz Azul suffered its first setback at this beginning of the year. It seems that the walk of Machine is going downhill, although they started with draws, soccer has not shined and today They were surpassed by a Necaxa who knew how to take advantage of mistakes defensive.
The light blues fell 0-1 at the hands of an old acquaintance. Edgar Méndez was in charge of making the only annotationprecisely against the club that brought him to Liga MX in 2017. In fact, the Spaniard had not been able to score with the Rayos since last tournament and he did just that tonight.
At minute 13, Juan Pablo Segovia took advantage of that the defensive line of Machine was ahead and gave long service from the three quarters of the field. The ball fell to Méndez, who, seeing Ramiro Funes Mori badly positioned took it and He took it to the Jesús Corona area.
The same waythe cement porter was ahead and between the distraction of Funes Mori and his attempt to protect and cut off Méndez’s career, Chuy ended up giving himself away against the Spaniard who only raised the ball and sent it to the back of the net.
The Machine tried to match the actions. A clear and regrettable opportunity was a cross shot by Rodolfo Rotondi that skimmed the post of Hugo González’s goal.
Another one from Rotondibut this time it was a perfect service for Uriel Antonwho I’m late and claimed that he had received a foul prior to entering the penalty area.
For the second half, both coaches made changesbut without any doubt Andrés Lillini knew how to do it better whenever contained the cement inertia that regardless of the entry of elements such as Augusto Lotti, Ramiro Carrera and Iván Morales managed to achieve equality.
The game ended and Cruz Azul must get up from this start of the tournament in which he tried to go from less to more, he reached the mid-level and came down amid controversies and criticism from the fans towards the team and the board.