After 22 years the team returned to the Azteca at the conclusion of the 2017-18 Liga MX season. Estadio Azteca, the nation's largest sports venue, served as their home venue until 1996, when they moved to the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, which was renamed Estadio Azul. Because "azul" means "blue" in Spanish, the club has traditionally worn a blue home kit.įounded in Jasso, Hidalgo, the club moved officially to Mexico City in 1971, where it had already registered a great presence and activity since its beginnings. It competes in the Liga MX, the top division of Mexican football. Their defensive woes are well-documented, however Repetto has three really good center backs and a super-talented goalkeeper to work with.Club de Futbol Cruz Azul or simply Cruz Azul ( pronounced ) is a professional football club based in Mexico City, Mexico. If nothing else, getting a look at what Pablo Repetto will try and do with Santos should be interesting. As a team, La Maquina has only scored more than two goals once this season, in a 3-1 win at Puebla. Former Santos forward Uriel Antuna leads the team with five goals, however no one else has more than two in the 16 games this season. They will however still have Jesús Corona in goal, who at 42 years young is still a formidable goalkeeper.Ĭruz Azul’s offense has sputtered however, scoring just 18 goals on the season, which is tied with Mazatlán for twelfth in the league. They’ll be missing Ramiro Funes Mori, who was sent off with two yellow cards he picked up in stoppage in the loss to Chivas. Cruz Azul are guaranteed a spot in the repechaje thanks to the Atlas-San Luis matchup, but they still will want to win to get as high a seeding as possible and help ensure home field advantage in the round.ĭespite the defeats, Cruz Azul’s strength is in their defense, which has allowed 20 goals this season, sitting them tied with Querétaro for sixth place. Photo by Alfredo Moya/Jam Media/Getty ImagesĬruz Azul also has a new manager, and while Ricardo “Tuca” Ferretti started things off well Cruz Azul are winless in their last three including two straight losses to archrivals América and Chivas. Cruz Azul has relied on their defense, but they’ll be without Ramiro Funes Mori for the match against Santos Laguna. At Santos, Repetto has some good pieces at his disposal, but it will be challenging to say the least to institute anything meaningful just four days after being announced. He also found success at LDU Quito and recently won the Uruguayan Primera División with Nacional. Repetto has a good pedigree, taking Ecuador’s Independiente del Valle to the 2016 Copa Libertadores Final where they lost to Colombian side Atlético Nacional. It was also the last game with Eduardo Fentanes in charge in Torreón, who was dismissed with Pablo Repetto brought in as his replacement. A win last week would have clinched that and put them up to eighth place instead they allowed two goals in stoppage time and lost 2-0 to Querétaro and now sit just one point clear of 12th place Pumas and 13th place San Luis, the difference between post-season and off-season for those teams currently being the second tie-breaker of goals scored. The message for Santos is simple: win, and you’re in.ĭespite a poor performance last week, Santos is still in the driver’s seat as far as making hte repechaje. New manager Pablo Repetto takes over a Santos team that has won one in their last five, giving up eleven goals while scoring just four. Harold Preciado had Santos’ other goal, while Ignacio Rivero scored Cruz Azul’s lone tally on the evening. In their last match in Mexico City, Santos beat Cruz Azul 2-1 on a stoppage time goal from Diego Medina at Estadio Azteca on February 27, 2022. The last time the teams met, Santos won 4-0 in Torreón on Augthanks to goals from Javier Correa, Hugo Rodríguez, Eduardo “Mudo” Aguirre, and Carlos Orrantia. All but three matches were in Liga MX play: a two leg quarterfinal series in the 2010-11 Concacaf Champions League that Cruz Azul won 5-1 on aggregate, and a quarterfinal match in the 2017 Clausura Copa MX that Cruz Azul won 3-1. Streaming : fuboTV (Subscription), TUDN En VivoĪll-time record: Cruz Azul holds the advantage all-time across all competitions, winning 34 to Santos’ 26 with 18 draws between them. Television : United States - TUDN, Univision Mexico - TUDN, Canal 5 Televisa Referees: REF: Luis Enrique Santander Aguirre, AR1: Michel Alejandro Morales Morales, AR2: Edgar Magdaleno Castrejon, 4TH: Maximiliano Quintero Hernández, VAR: Jorge Antonio Pérez Durán, AVAR: Iván Antonio López Sánchez
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