They say that you have to kill America when you can, because otherwise they will kill you as happened this Saturday at the Ciudade de los Deportes stadium, where the Aguilas with a great performance by Alejandro Zendejas with two goals came from behind to thrash Pumas 4-1.

Without a doubt a complete performance by the team led by Andre Jardine that demonstrated the great superiority over some Pumas that put soul, life and heart to be worthy rivals and that even took the lead on the scoreboard with an error by Uruguayan defender Sebastian Caceres that allowed Jorge Ruvalcaba to score in the 33rd minute to make it 0-1.

In this way, the Aguilas del America reaffirmed their football improvement by winning the 177th edition of the capital derby over Pumas de la UNAM with their 63rd victory in this rivalry, where they have tied 69 times and the felines have fallen 46 times including tonight's.

But with all that, with the great performance of Pumas' goalkeeper, Costa Rican Keylor Navas, who avoided a massacre of the university students, the America's power was visible, overwhelming the felines in the second half with goals from Colombian Jose “Pantera” Zuniga, an own goal from Colombian Alvaro Angulo, and two goals from Zendejas to establish the large and heavy difference on the scoreboard.

Because many things can be argued, that Pumas is one of the four greats of Mexican soccer along with America, but the reality is that there are light years of difference, especially because in this type of games where pride is supposedly at stake, the reality is that the Eagles have the upper hand with these types of performances.

Here, Zendejas' performance far surpassed that of Keylor Navas, who was the great figure of a team that could only hold out for 45 minutes and then faded on the field coinciding with the expulsion of his coach Efrain Juarez. He may have a lot of intensity and transmit it to his team, but he looks worse and worse with these kinds of shows on the field that they do not end up contributing anything to their colors.

From less to more

America's victory had two moments, in the first they seemed to commit the same errors that led them to the defeat in the national classic against Chivas and that gave Jorge Ruvalcaba the advantage 0-1 after half an hour of play and that in the rest of the first half Jardine's team could not decipher.

But in the second half America was lord and master of the actions, making that now if the speed of Maximin, Zendejas, Juarez and Alexis Gutierrez could harass the goal of Keylor Navas with more idea, although he turned like a cat on his back before accepting the tie 1-1 in the 54th minute in a great shot from Maximin that Navas rejected and Alvaro Angulo with his body nestled in his own goal in a regrettable own goal.

Later, in the 58th, America did not take long to take the lead when, in a shot from head, the Panther Zuniga put the ball inside Navas' goal who tried to prevent it from falling into his goal, but in the end he could not prevent the ball from ending up in the back of his net.

Then came the show of Alejandro Zendejas who, owner and master of the field, managed to score the 3-1 at 72 minutes in a play with Maximin that the Frenchman returned to the Mexican-American so that he could put a hat on the Costa Rican goalkeeper of the Pumas and with it beat him from above to start building the route.

Ten minutes later, Zendejas himself put the icing on the cake with the penalty that Duarte committed to beat Navas with a shot to the left that left the Central American goalkeeper with no option and that put things final 4-1 in a great Americanist night and a feline disappointment.