Santiago Solari arrived at América for this tournament and the team seems to have understood his idea by adding good results after nine rounds.
The Eagles of America are gradually taking shape in the Guard1anes closing tournament 2021 and now that half the game is over, the mark of the technician Santiago Solari stands out.
At the start of the fair, the capital’s team achieved positive results that held it up in the battle for first places in the general classification, but it was inconclusive in its operation.
Solari has been improving little by little with the team and proof of this was the ninth date encounter against Xolos de Tijuana, in which he was superior on the playing field, finishing with a 2-0 win.
In case of fouls, the Coapa team achieved a good performance and this made goalkeeper Jonathan Orozco the figure of the border team, trying to prevent the arrival of the opponent.
The win allowed him to take 19 points to move on to Cruz Azul, who is at the top of the overall standings with 21 after seven consecutive wins led by Juan Reynoso.
America would be in first place of the general table had they not lost its seventh-day three points against the Rojinegros del Atlas due to an incorrect line-up by Federico Viñas.
Had the former Real Madrid coach’s team kept the win over the Rojiengros, they would have had five consecutive wins. in the tournament with the victory over Xolos de Tijuana.
In the main team they have brought out different elements for their performance and one of them is Henry Martín because he is the one who has scored the most goals with a total of four and another is the youth team Santiago Naveda, who has monopolized the spotlight for his work on game.
Now, The challenge for the Eagles will be to maintain slowness on the following commitments and this weekend they will face León, the current Mexican soccer champion that continues with his bad step in the tournament that keeps him in 15th position of the general table.
For the eleventh day, Santiago Solari’s team will take on the classic against Chivas de Guadalajara, who still cannot find his way under the command of Víctor Manuel Vucetich, seeking revenge after the Jalisco team let them out of the Guard1anes 2020 competition by beating them in the quarter finals.
In addition to the aforementioned matches, for the second half of the tournament, the Coapa team will have tougher rivals such as Tigres (on date 14), Cruz Azul (on date 15), Toluca (on 16) and will close with Pumas de la UNAM (in 17), so they will have the task of maintaining inertia under Solari’s command.