Cruz Azul with shocks, but added its seventh victory in a row: 3-2 vs. FC Juarez
Cruz Azul overcame a duel of somersaults on the scoreboard to beat FC Juarez 3-2, adding the seventh victory in a row and being the only undefeated in Liga MX
It wasn't easy, much less simple, because FC Juarez came to fight at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario like true Braves, but in the end Cruz Azul imposed their quality 3-2 to add the seventh consecutive victory that allows them to place themselves as the temporary leader of the Apertura 2025 tournament.
A triumph achieved by the great quality of their squad, where Luka Romero, the Uruguayan Gabriel “Toro” Fernandez and the Argentine Jose Paradela, were the architects of the seventh success in a row for the Maquina Celeste, which also makes them the only undefeated in the championship.
A triumph that comes at the exact right time to continue fighting as one of the favorites of the competition, but above all that in each game gives certainty to Nicolas Larcamon's project to continue thinking that he is the right coach for Cruz Azul, moving away from the embarrassment of the Leagues Cup where Seattle Sounders applied to scandalous 7-0.
Because after that experience, the cement workers learned to handle games like the one this Friday night at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario, where they took the lead in the 2nd minute through Luka Romero, but then got into a tight spot with goals from Rodolfo Pizarro in the 14th minute and then from Raymundo Fulgencio in the 19th that put them against the wall 1-2.
It was there where the cement workers showed that they are a leading team to tie 2-2 in the 23rd minute through Toro Gabriel Fernandez and then regained the lead in the 36th minute through Jose Paradela, an advantage that they would never lose for the rest of the match.
There could have been more goals
For the second half Cruz Azul also showed that it knows how to handle games, that it keeps its rival at bay and that it knows how to go forward in search of annihilating them definitively, although tonight, the only one but it was the lack of aim of “Toro” Fernandez, of Luka Romero himself and also the performance of the border goalkeeper, Sebastian Jurado.
FC Juarez were not a piece of cake for the cement workers either, and perhaps that is why Cruz Azul's victory was even more meritorious, since with Oscar Estupinan and Ricardo Oliveira in attack they had the opportunity to tie the game, but the reality is that it was more due to individual resources than to the collective effort of the visitors in the first half.