Cruz Azul's Sky Blue Machine came from behind to beat America 2-1 in the 204th edition of the capital classic and where the cement workers added their 62nd victory in this rivalry with goals from Uruguayans Gabriel Fernandez and Ignacio Rivero, who turned around the goal scored by Brian Rodriguez.

A duel where the Machine, despite not having starters Kevin Mier and Willer Ditta since the start of hostilities due to alleged violations of the disciplinary regulations of the cement team, had the Eagles in a fist to get closer to scoring goals.

In this way, the cement workers took revenge for the last tournament's defeat, in the semifinals of the Clausura 2025 tournament, when the Eagles won with the same score as tonight at the Ciudad de los Deportes stadium.

The victory allowed Cruz Azul to reach 28 points, snatching the second place from the Coapa team and thus putting themselves three points away from Toluca, who leads the competition with 31 points, the product of 10 wins, one draw, and two losses.

While Cruz Azul has eight wins, four draws and one loss, surpassing America who with 27 points remained in third place in the competition with eight wins, three draws and two losses.

The details

Now things were no different than previous editions of the so-called young classic and that is how Cruz Azul understood it, going all out in search of victory, but America cannot be given even a second of freedom and that was when they opened the scoreboard in the 30th minute due to a serious error by defending Jorge Sanchez. But it was clear that the cementeros would not assume the role of victims in this match and three minutes later, "Toro" Fernandez achieved a 1-1 tie with a serious error by defending Kevin Alvarez, to justify the better 45 minutes for the sky blue team.

For the second half, the sky blue team made use of what seemed to be a better bench and thus entered Ignacio Rivero, who gave the impression of being more complete,because after Chilean Victor Davila had been substituted at halftime to make way for Alejandro Zendejas, the decision backfired, as the Mexican-American suffered a setback at halftime and they had to call on Spaniard Alvaro Fidalgo.

With these changes, Cruz Azul won, as they called on Ignacio Rivero, who ultimately scored the winning goal 2-1 in the 66th minute. From that moment on, they assumed a style of game control and prevented America from getting close to the flanks, because otherwise their night would have been complicated.

In the end, Cruz Azul knew how to maintain the lead on the scoreboard and within their panorama they achieved an important 2-1 victory.

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