The day has come. After so much expectation, Diego Cocca debuted on the bench of the tigerswhere the Nicolaitans equaled no goals before him Mazatlan in the first meet from Cup for Mexico.
Despite being a pre-season contest, the Argentine strategist did not hold anything back and sent his best men to start this new feline stage on the right foot.
Before the year ended, the Incomparables met at the University Stadium, in order to witness the first game of the South American helmsman in command of the northerners, with the illusion of repeating past glories.
The first dangerous play reached the 21 minutes, in a play by the right wing regarding the attack of the locals, where Luis Quinones he sent a low pass for Andre Pierre Gignac, who did not hesitate to shoot with his right foot but a sweep by Nestor Vidrio drowned out the goal cry.
However, the French attacker wanted to be present on the scoreboard at any cost, and at 31′ he took advantage of a high service from javier aquino to finish off with the head but it was no problem for the goalkeeper Ricardo Gutierrez.
The response from the people of Sinaloa was not long in coming, and at 40′ Marco Fabián tried from long distance, but Nahuel Guzmán launched to his right side to send the ball into a corner kick.
Five minutes later, the clearest opportunity for the Auriazules came through Quiñones, who fired with his left foot and the shot whizzed past the visitor’s goal.
For the complementary part, Diego Cocca completely changed the starting eleven to command the following elements: Miguel Ortega; Jesus Garza, Diego Reyes, Eduardo Tercero, Manuel Aguilar; Rafael Carioca, Sebastian Cordova, David Ayala; Leonardo Flores, Fernando González y nicholas lopez
It should be noted that all the men available for this match added minutes, where unfortunately Ayala had to be relieved minutes after his admission due to injury and his place was taken by Sebastián Fierro; while in the final stretch of the game González came out for Leonel Prieto.
Mazatlán tried to take advantage of the feline modifications, since at 55′ Eduardo Bello had the opportunity to open the scoring with an open goal but his shot went wide.
At 66′ it was Brian Rubio’s turbo, who rose into the air to finish off with a header and Miguel Ortega stretched to deny him the score.
The next meeting of the Tigers in the Cup for Mexico will be this Saturday December 17 at 9:00 p.m. when Diego Cocca meets his former team again, the Atlas.
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