“New Year, Old Machine”the most accurate pun matches the cover of the Cancha.com portal, which opened its edition this Monday by defeat with a minimum of Blue cross against Santos in the TSC Corona Stadium as part of day 1 of Guard1anes 2021.
With a goal from Diego Valdés in minute 61 of the game, locals beat La Maquina in Juan Reynoso’s debut as a sky coach. Those led by the Peruvian quarterback were unable to take over the game, and after a good first half hour, the same ghosts of the past that led him to elimination against Pumas in last season’s semifinals returned.
This initial defeat did not go unnoticed by the sports press, which was prepared by another fall and few invite optimism for what is to come. ‘It doesn’t look good at all“, they stand out in the Universal Deportes, where they analyze in detail the development of the movements of the visiting group.
Cancha.com portal (Cancha.com)
Another that didn’t pass up an opportunity to contemplate Cruz Azul’s fall was the Ovaciones newspaper, which even added the cement workers’ perennial mockery to report on another sport: “Pittsburgh the ‘Blue Cross'”, titled by the fall of the Steelers out of control Browns de Cleveland in the NFL.
Cover of El Universal Deportes newspaper (El Universal Deportes)
Up one side, and on the same cover, they shot irony through the fall of La Noria: “And the machine is not fake”They wrote. This defeat just at the start sets a precedent for what comes to Reynoso’s team, which will be forced to win on the second date at the Azteca Stadium in the visit to Puebla.
Cover of the newspaper Ovaciones (Ovaciones)
Has the benefit of the doubt