Santiago Solari arrived in America for this tournament and the team seems to have understood its idea by adding good results after nine rounds.
The Eagles of America are gradually taking shape Guard1anes 2021 Closing Tournament and now that half of the competition has passed, the stamp of technician Santiago Solari is beginning to be noticed.
At the beginning of the fair, the capital team obtained positive results that kept it in the fight for the first places in the general classification, but it was not convincing in its operation.
Solari gradually made improvements with the team and the proof of this was the meeting of the ninth meeting against Xolos de Tijuana, in which he was superior on the field of play and ended with a 2-0 victory.
Offensive, Coapa got a good performance and this generated the fact that the goalkeeper Jonathan Orozco became the figure of the border team, which tried to prevent the arrival of the opponent.
The victory allowed him to reach 19 points to continue the search for Cruz Azul, who is at the top of the general classification with 21 after seven consecutive victories under the command of Juan Reynoso.
America would be in first place in the overall standings if they had not lost the three points on the seventh day against Rojinegros del Atlas, due to an inadequate alignment of Federico Viñas.
If the former Real Madrid coach’s team had maintained the victory against Rojiengros, they would have reached five consecutive victories in the tournament with the victory against Xolos de Tijuana.
In the capital team they highlighted different elements for their performance and one of them is Henry Martín because he was the one who scored the most goals with a total of four, and another is the youth team Santiago Naveda, who monopolized the spotlight for working on the playing field.
Now, The challenge for the Eagles will be to maintain inertia in the next engagements and this weekend they will face León, current Mexican football champion. which continues its bad step in the tournament that keeps it in the fifteenth position of the general table.
For the eleventh day, Santiago Solari’s team will face the classic against Chivas de Guadalajara, who still cannot find his way under the command of Víctor Manuel Vucetich, in search of revenge after the Jalisco team left them out of the Guard1anes 2020 league, defeating them in the quarterfinals.
In addition to the matches mentioned above, for the second half of the tournament the Coapa team will have more difficult rivals such as Tigres (on 14), Cruz Azul (on 15), Toluca (on 16) and will close with Pumas de at UNAM (in 17), so they will have the task of maintaining inertia under Solari’s command.