Toluca at home managed to rescue a point by drawing 1-1 with Puebla in early duel corresponding to Day 16 of the 2022 Opening, after recovering from a goal, after a serious oversight, and stay with 10 men on the field of the Nemesio Diez Stadium.
Andres Mosquera he was the one who stole the nightsince on the one hand he opened the way for Puebla to the goal, but he also found the tie to come out not so beaten.
the camo team he did not know how to take advantage of the extra man for just over 25 minutes and let go of a good triumph; for the Red Devils it was a great point due to the circumstances on a night where both goalkeepers took practically everything.
The Strip was excited
The scoring opened up very quickly. As soon as the stopwatch thought it would reach minute 17 when Omar Fernández took advantage of a little gift from Andrés Mosquera, who gave the ball away to Maximiliano Araujo. This immediately left the Colombian who headed in and scored against Tiago Volpi to make it 1-0.
Toluca also had its gift and it was on the next play when at 21′, Emilio Martínez wanted to lean on Antony Silva, but inadvertently left the ball to Jean Meneses, the Red Devils player defined and the stick prevented him from drawing; Gastón Silva cleared the danger to continue with the minimum for La Franja.
Arrivals continued and Diego de Buen had faith on a free kick and at 26 ‘he put the full foot to take out a rifle shot that hit Volpi’s crossbar; he looked like the second poblano.
Leo Fernandezthe element that always appears for the Scarlets, also made a free kick at 28′, but he threw it directly and Silva put his hands in to ward off danger.
Before the break, two saving slides arrived. First Israel Reyes prevented Toluca from drawing at 40′, and three minutes later Claudio Baeza did the same when there was another mistake in the chorizo defense and they almost left only one offensive player from La Franja.
The first of the second part was for Toluca. Center to the area for Charly González, at the end the ball fell to Brayan Angulo who hit it with a volley, Antony Silva’s hands appeared first and then the crossbar to drown out the goal cry.
The duel was complicated for Toluca when Jordan Sierra slid over Reyes. It was a tough entry that in the VAR it was confirmed as an expulsion at 67′.
Larcamón then looked for the second goal, but it did not come, even though he put in his reinforcement Jozy Altidore at 80 ‘ to try to generate more danger in the attack, but nothing happened.
Mosquera washed his mistake and at 82′ he headed in a cross into the area to make it 1-1, a score that surprised those present since the Red Devils had one less man on the pitch.
Already in the compensation, La Franja wanted and Jordi Cortizo made a distant shot that Volpi stayed, and at 95 ‘Altidore sent it to the side before the final whistle that left the 1-1.