Blue Cross he said goodbye to Opening in 2023 was booed and had a 1-2 loss against Puebla at Azteca Stadium. The Machine, already eliminated, went down 1-2 in a match where the celestial fans often booed their players, while the Strip took advantage of the celestials’ bad chance to climb to sixth position and go straight to the quarterfinals in the end. .
The match started in the middle of the atmosphere against Blue Cross. In the last minutes, when the local sound presented the lineup, the eleven starting players, as well as Joaquín Moreno, were booed by the celestial fans.
10 minutes into the game, due to the lack of emotions in the two goals, the boos returned to Blue Cross, which came out after a pass that Willer Ditta missed. At 16′, the whistles turned into shouts of ‘olé, olé, olé…’ when Puebla He moved the ball from one side to the other on the Azteca Stadium field.
The Coloso de Santa Úrsula experienced a roller coaster of emotions in the 20′, when Guillermo Martínez sent the ball into the net with a header after a cross by Daniel Álvarez from the left wing, but the action was canceled due to the alleged offside, which created excitement among the fans Blue Crossthat a few moments later remained silent, after the goal was validated after VAR review.
Blue Cross He reacted in the last 15 minutes of the first half. In 29′, Jesús Rodríguez saved Puebla twice in one game. In a corner kick, ‘Araña’ saved a header from Juan Escobar, who had a second chance with a shot, but the goalkeeper’s leg prevented the goal.
Just four minutes later, Ángel Sepúlveda stood in front of Jesús Rodríguez, but again the ‘Spider’ saved his goal, as it happened in the 36th minute, with an incredible flight to save on a volley by Carlos Rodríguez from outside the area.
The insistence on Blue Cross He was rewarded in the 45′, when the equalizer arrived. Willer Ditta, with a volley from a pass from Rodrigo Huescas, led the scoring of the goal that the Colombian celebrated with all his teammates, including the substitutes.
The Machine let the 2-1 slip through the boots of Kevin Castaño in the 52nd minute. Ángel Sepúlveda left the Colombian in front of the goal to score the celestials’ second of the night, but the South American flew over his shot.
That failure is reflected on the scoreboard, but against Blue Cross. In 57′, Andrés Gudiño saved a header from Guillermo Martínez, but in the corner kick, from that action, Gastón Silva, after a series of rebounds in the area, sent the ball into the nets .
The last moments of Blue Cross in the Apertura 2023 they are a review of the tournament that is in the Machine. Defensive problems that Puebla did not know how to take advantage of, errors in the pass, when defined near the rival goal, which triggered the boos to increase the level and disappeared until the light blue soccer players left at the Azteca Stadium field.
