To the Puebla he didn’t care that Tijuana Xolos He will use the best of his arsenal, including the new jewel of Mexican soccer, Gilberto Morato break a heavy drought of nine games without knowing victory with a 4-3 that was the cherry on the cake after 39 minutes of great football at the Cuauhtémoc Stadium.
Without a doubt a great achievement for the squad led by Hernan Cristante whose last victory in the tournament Opening 2025 of the Liga MX It had been on date three when they won 1-0 against Saints. Then they had three games in the Leagues Cup with two victories over NYC FC 3-0 and Montreal 1-2, as well as a defeat with Columbus Crew 3-1.
But from that moment on they accumulated a total of seven defeats with UANL Tigers 7-0, Athletic Saint Louis 0-2, Monterey 2-4, Toluca 3-1, Necaxa 1-0, Chivas 0-2 and Querétaro 3-1, as well as three draws with Cougars 0-0 and Pachuca 2-2, which obviously placed them at the bottom of the standings.
But there is always a first time and now the strip painting was able to recover from this encounter where Xolos He put them against the wall 0-2 with two goals from Kevin Castaneda and that forced a reaction from Puebla to tie with scores of Ricardo Marin and the rookie Alvaro de la Rosa.
This tie motivated the people of Puebla more than that, in full effervescence, they allowed the Moroccan Mourad Daoudi, managed to regain the 3-2 lead in what seemed like the tenth game without winning for the Pueblans, but appeared Carlos Baltazar and in the last ten minutes he managed to turn the score around with scores in the 82nd and 90th minutes for the incredible victory of the locals.
The 39 incredible minutes of excellent football
After a first half that passed without pain or glory in the game between Puebla and Xolos of date 13, the last 39 minutes arrived in the Cuauhtémoc stadium where both teams toasted each other in an excellent duel of give and take where in the end the locals achieved an incredible 4-3 victory.
Was Xolos the first team to achieve the advantage with two goals from Kevin Castaneda, the first in a penalty on Gilberto Mora that took charge with great authority at minute 52 and then at minute 59 in a serious mistake by Puebla’s veteran goalkeeper Julio González who could not cut the ball in a counterattack by the border team who walked into their area so that Castaneda managed to close the clamp on the second post in a great action.
The 0-2 put the Puebla against the wall and forced them to risk everything for everything, but resorting to the maxim in football which is accompaniment and where the Argentine Emiliano Gomez played a very important role, since he was the one who left the ball served to Ricardo Marin to shoot Toño Rodríguez to close the distance at minute 66.
Two minutes later the same Emiliano Gomez along with Baltazar They made a great action on the right and then changed the game to the left when the rookie entered Alvaro de la Rosa on the left that allowed him to cross his shot and put it from the other side into the goal of Rodriguez for 2-2 at minute 68.
But it was clear that Xolos He was not going to give up easily and still with Blackberry on the field they allowed the Moroccan Mourad Daoudi completing an action in a takedown by the border team to finish in the area with a header and nest the ball in the nets at 70 minutes.
but after Puebla the physique would be raffled off and in the last ten minutes the victory would be snatched from the canids with two goals from Carlos Baltazarprecisely when the former player of the Celaya of the Expansion League He made two great actions at 82 and 89 minutes in mid-distance shots, but where individual technique and daring were his arguments to turn the score around and end the victory drought.
Lineups at the Cuauhtémoc Stadium
Continue reading:
– Balacera delayed the start of the game in Puebla; left a woman dead
– Gilberto Mora has the quality to be in the World Cup, according to Luis Hernández
– Chivas, with everything and a field destroyed by rain, defeated Puebla 0-2