Keylor Navas’ Heroics Not Enough as Pumas Lose Dramatic Liga MX Final : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
- On Sunday, Cruz Azul won its 10th Liga MX title, defeating Pumas 2-1 in the final as interim manager Joel Huiqui guided the team just weeks after Nicolas Larcamon was fired.
- Paraguayan midfielder Robert Morales scored in the 30th minute to put Pumas ahead, but an own goal in the 53rd minute tied the match before extra time.
- Two expulsions left Pumas with nine players: Uriel Antuna was sent off in the 91st minute and Angel Rico in the 97th, before Rodolfo Rotondi scored the stoppage-time winner.
- Rotondi told TUDN after the match, "We were close, we competed three years," as the victory ended a championship drought dating to 1997.
- Huiqui is likely to be offered a full-time coaching deal, while the club now holds 10 titles, a total surpassed only by Club America with 16.
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DETROIT — (Alan Vanegas) Cruz Azul has finally won its tenth Liga MX title after a five-year drought, as the Cementeros were crowned champions of the 2016 Clausura tournament after defeating Pumas UNAM in the final. Last Sunday, May 24, Cruz Azul and its fans celebrated their victory in grand style. […] The post Cruz Azul crowned champion against Pumas and reaches 10 Liga MX titles appeared first on Latino Detroit.
Pedro Vite was close to conquering Closing 2026 of the MX League, but ended up running out of title. The Ecuadorian flyer was a starter and contested the 90 minutes in the 2-1 defeat of Pumas against Cruz Azul, a result that left the cats without championship and prolonged their drought of titles.
Keylor Navas’ Heroics Not Enough as Pumas Lose Dramatic Liga MX Final : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
Keylor Navas came within minutes of another major title Sunday night, but Pumas UNAM saw the Liga MX Clausura final slip away in stoppage time as Cruz Azul won 2-1 at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City. The result gave Cruz Azul its 10th Mexican league title and left Pumas with a painful end to a tournament that had Costa Rican fans closely following every save from Navas. The first leg finished 0-0 on Thursday, making Sunday’s re…
Videos about fighting between fans of the Blue Cross and Pumas went viral, where several people were injured.At the end of the Blue Cross vs Pumas, where the Machine was won 2-1, the Auriazules fans showed their annoyance with aggressions towards the winning hobby.In the videos circulating in networks you can see several attacks within the University Olympic Stadium; they were not reported seriously injured.Video exhibits aggressions and threats…
Joel Huiqui caresses the cup and smiles. He celebrates at the University Olympic Stadium with the team that has just embroidered the tenth star of the shield of Cruz Azul by beating Pumas in the final (2-1). In the visiting headboard, hundreds of fans shout to tears. They are expressions of happiness, but also of anguish, courage, the hangover of several years of failures and defeats, the echo of those voices that accused one of the most winning…
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