A tie for “10” men, but the players have enough class to achieve an achievement when the 2024 Apertura of the MX League is still in its dawn, far from the region that writes great works, but now records great efforts.
Pachuca played a large part of their second-round match with one man less, but still managed to draw 0-0 on their visit to Esmeraldas de Leon, who were making their first home appearance of the season.
Neither Esmeralda nor Tozos dared to attack much in the opening minutes, and were content to wait to see what their rivals would do, while the back-and-forth and possession moves of both teams passed without significance. Neither team seemed ready to take risks and move forward.
Guerra and Puente seem to have been encouraged to at least worry the goalkeepers a little, but there was nothing to take into account, on the contrary, the action that contributed to the rest of the match was not to score a goal, nor to reach the penalty area, in fact it was an action very far from that. Idrissi was involved in a quarrel with Barreiro that ended with Osama losing his head, attacking him and hitting the local player in the crotch area.
The referee did not overlook this act and punished her with a red card, of course with the prior help of VAR. Pachuca continued to row against the tide for the rest of the match, with a numerical difference, but the truth prefers to be evidence of the ineffectiveness of the Esmeralda, who only remembered this advantage in some moments of the match.
Far from being afraid, Guillermo Almada’s men never gave up on the attack and were closer to goal than the green team at certain moments of the match. Pachuca had equal conditions for only 10 seconds, when Victor Aaron Barajas also received a red card in the last play of the match. A disappointing result for both teams who have yet to win the Apertura 2024 of Liga MX, but Tuzos could get the number “10” today.
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