Goals and Summary of Cruz Azul 2-1 Mazatlán in Liga MX

The game ends, first victory in the Anselmi era. Cruz Azul won 2-1 against Mazatlán. The gunners were left with 10 with the expulsion of Esquivel. Goals from Ángel Sepúlveda and Gabriel Fernández. Assists from Uriel Antuna.

Andrés Montaño finishes hard and still goes to the side of the goal. Cruz Azul is saved.

6 minutes more in the game.

Great save by Hugo González was the third goal for the blues.

Last 10 minutes of the game. It is paused due to a problem between players, Nacho Rivero involved. The assists go into evaluating the light blue player who fell due to an elbow.

Cruz Azul was saved. Mazatlán barely scored, Kevin Mier saved twice.

Mazatlán touches the ball looking for the goal that ties the game. Cruz Azul lowers the revolutions.

El Toro missed it, a shot that went to the post, Cruz Azul looked for the 3rd goal. Sepu fails to finish well on the corner kick.

We go to half-time, with Cruz Azul winning 2-1, after losing with a goal from Gustavo del Prete.

Toro Fernández and Ángel Sepúlveda scored the 2 goals. Uriel Antuna has 2 assists.

Cruz Azul goal. The Angel of the goal appears. Ángel Sepúlveda scores with a header, header, with assistance from Antuna.

6 minutes more.

¡El Toro Fernández se estrena con La Máquina! 💥⚽

🚂 1-1 ⚓

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📺 @VIX#SabadoFutbolero | #AzulDePorVida | #ARREbatando pic.twitter.com/3ibdC152kf — TUDN USA (@TUDNUSA) January 27, 2024

The VAR calls Santander. Cruz Azul will have an advantage, Joaquín Esquivel is sent off for a foul against Huescas. The gunners are going to play with 10.

Kevin Mier saves, great shot that the goalkeeper blocks. The gunners are going to have a corner kick.

Toro Fernández failed, he only had it. Cruz Azul had it to score the second.

Cruz Azul goal. The machine matched it. Assisted by Brujo Antuna, by Toro Fernández. It's 1-1.

Goool of Mazatlán. The gunboats go up, annotation by Gustavo del Prete. Great goal from the former Puma, from outside the area.

First free kick for Cruz Azul, the light blues with Charly Rodríguez miss the opportunity. But Piovi's header went wide.

Starts the match.

Hugo González, Luis Olivas, Jaír Díaz, Facundo Almada, Ventura Alvarado, José Esquivel, Andrés Montaño, Jefferson Intriago, Brian Rubio, Edgar Bárcenas and Gustavo del Prete.

Kevin Mier, Willer Ditta, Gonzalo Piovi, Lorenzo Faravelli, José Rivero, Rodrigo Huescas, Charly Rodríguez, Uriel Antuna, Rotondi, Ángel Sepúlveda and Toro Fernández.

Gustavo del Prete after starting the tournament with Pumas, accumulating 45 minutes. The Argentine starts against Cruz Azul, in his new stage with Mazatlán.

Both teams are already doing stretching exercises, prior to this start of the game between Cruz Azul vs Mazatlán on matchday 3 of the MX League.

Montaño ➕ Del Prete 🎩#ARREbatando ⚓️ pic.twitter.com/7a15A4WFx9

— Mazatlán F.C. ⚓️ (@MazatlanFC) January 27, 2024

Jorge Sánchez could play with Cruz Azul, after FIFA approved that he can play with the light blue team. Jorge is not called up for this game against Porto.

Juan Escobar would have his bags ready to leave with Toluca. But it seems that the negotiation with the devils is going to cool down and this is the 3rd day that Juan is not considered. He still has a contract with Cruz Azul.

The two teams have already arrived at the venue, just minutes before they go out to warm up, after the actions begin in this matchday 3 match.

Carlos Salcedo returns with the first team, after not finding a team in this market. Anselmi includes it again.

Estos son los convocados para el encuentro de esta tarde en el @estadiocdd. #AzulDePorVida pic.twitter.com/0Kfj9KZUtF

— CRUZ AZUL (@CruzAzul) January 27, 2024

The fans of both teams have already arrived at the Ciudad de los Deportes Stadium, keeping an eye on their team and just minutes away from warming up.

We are back for the minute by minute match between Cruz Azul vs Mazatlán. We will soon share the confirmed rosters, as well as relevant data about the confrontation between these two teams.

In a few moments we will share with you the starting rosters Cruz Azul vs Mazatlan live, as well as the latest information from the Ciudad de los Deportes Stadium such as statements from the protagonists, players to watch and interesting facts about these two teams. Don't miss any details of the match with VAVEL's minute-by-minute online coverage.

USA Date: Saturday 27 January 2024

USA Time: 6:00 PM ET

USA TV channel (English): No transmission

USA TV channel (Spanish): In TUDN USA.

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Cruz Azul and Mazatlán in the last 5 games gives us the following statistics with 2 wins for the canoneros, 1 for the machine and 2 draws. In the last game they tied 2 goals at the Encanto Stadium and Mazatlán's last visit to Azteca was a victory for the celestials by 2 goals to 0.

Andrés Montaño is the element to follow with 2 games, 1 goal in 174 possible minutes, the young gunner is one of the best young Mexican players that the purples have in his ranks. On the Cruz Azul side we have Toro Fernández who has 0 goals in these last 2 games, 142 minutes in total, but the goals were left in the preseason, Gabriel Fernández's long-awaited goal has not yet arrived.

Carlos Vargas, former Mazatlán player, today part of Cruz Azul, has reappeared after an injury that kept him off the field. Vargas was part of the cannon team from 2020 until the Apertura 2022, where he only scored one goal as a purple and 62 games with the Mazatlán shirt. In this last game against Pachuca he had 45 minutes of activity.

Cruz Azul will face its former player Alonso Escobaza, Alonso came on as a substitute in the last game against Mazatlán, with 5 minutes of debut for Andrés Montaño. Alonso arrived at the Noria in the Apertura 2022 from Necaxa, there were 3 seasons wearing the light blue colors.
Him registering 21 games and 3 goals. His last goals were against Pumas and Gallos Blancos, in the month of March.

The Gunners have just lost their first two games, adding 0 points, just 1 goal in favor and 5 goals against. With San Luis they lost by 1 goal, Toluca was their most recent game they lost with 4 goals to 1. Their next game at home will be against León. The purple box has signed a lot but has not provided solutions.

The machine comes from losing in its first game against Pachuca, where a goal from Rondón ruined the party, Ángel Sepúlveda, being the scorer of the last tournament, is having a bad time, because he has missed two occasions, one annulled by the VAR. The other was a missed penalty in Cruz Azul's last performance against Juárez, Sebastián Jurado saved Ángel's shot from the goal.
The fans hope that their team will respond because it is date 3 against Mazatlán, which is last in the table, with 0 points. The light blue ones are in position 11 with 1 point.

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