Preseason: Clausura 2008
After a 3-2 win against Atlético Mexiquense on Wednesday in CU (goals courtsey of Solari (2) and Barrera) Pumas took on Jaguares in Chiapas in their final warm-up game with the "Copa Chiapas" at stake.
After a turgid first half the game came to life at the beginning of the second half when Solari put Pumas ahead after a pass from Scocco. Two minutes later Scocco put the university two up, and Solari narrowly failed to make it three minutes later.
Jaguares pulled one back almost immediately through Moreira, but "El Bofo" Bautista was unable to earn the draw, spurning a 59 minute chance.
Once again the game went dead, and neither side created much in the last half-hour, but Pumas will be pleased that Solari and Scocco are getting on the scoresheet, so as to avoid the goal drought which blighted the beginning of Apertura 2007.
Elsewhere in Mexico
América booked the second automatic Copa Libertadores spot with a win on penalties against Cruz Azul in their final of the Interliga. While dominated by the "Cementeros" the game nevertheless finished 2-2, then 3-3 after extra time. Goalscorers were Cabañas (2) and López for América and Villaluz, Lozano(pen) and Lugo for Cruz Azul. The unfortunate penalty miss was by Christian Riveros.
Meanwhile Atlas (curiously since they finished bottom of the general table last season) took the third Mexican place in the Libertadores, crushing San Luis with goals from Marioni and Achucarro (2).
posted by John Kelly @ 3:21 pm
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Great shame for Cruz Azul, and a bigger shame that America made it... Have you heard anything further on Cabañas? I thought he was off somewhere... i.e. Europe, time would be ripe for him, wouldn't it?
Also on Atlas, do they look good now? They had a decent set of players, but looked pretty poor las season, any important changes of personel, or have they started to play as a team, will they be any good?
Cheers, great blogging through the winter "break" .... Oh, we often moan about things like the Interliga simply being a money-making thing, but actually, whats so bad with that? The Mexican League must be by far the healthiest in Latin America financially, and that's no bad thing
Achucarro is a new signing for Atlas, and Marioni seems to like playing with him (no smut intended).
Seems pretty certain that Cabañas is staying with América in the short term - not sure if anyone is interested in him. He needs a big goalscoring tournament to get noticed.
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