Rojinegros, they are not dreaming and it could not be otherwise, the “Atlas-style” heritage persecuted them in Jalisco. Penalties, to the ultimate consequences, were the last thing they had to endure in 70 years without a title to write a new story. The transformation was completed.
Some 47,500 people inside the stadium and surely an echo that permeated the Republic accompanied the second title of its existence. Julio Furch finished the glorious feat on the last penalty after León missed twice to finish with a victorious 4-3.
The boy hero of the athletes is Aldo Rocha, thanks to him, they reached the sentence of the penalties. The captain put the aggregate tie 3-3 with insistence work. First, he shot and Rodolfo Cota cleared it with a jump, and a minute later, Angel Jeremy Márquez gave him a pass and without missing the opportunity he scored the first goal of the game.
The fans left silence, the tension changed its connotation, because now there were no tiebreaker criteria, only a global scoreboard. After the goal, Atlas had at least two clear chances. One was Christopher Trejo at 80 ‘, who lost the emotion of the celebration when he realized that his shot hit the crossbar and Edgar Zaldívar could not rescue him on the rebound, with a soft header that ended up in the hands of the goalkeeper. In a second scene, Diego Barbosa drove to give the pass to Zaldívar, but Cota took it back. Players and fans did not give credit, they put their fingers in their mouths.
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