Jennifer is beautiful he scored two goals on Thursday, provided an assist and saved a 3-3 draw for the Pachuca he is new Guadalajara in the quarterfinals of the Women’s Soccer Clausura of Mexico. The former Barça player, with two goals, and Alice Soto scored for Tuzas, while Damaris Godínez, Gabriela Valenzuela and Carlina Jaramillo scored for Chivas.
Guadalajara came out to propose and took the lead in the 2nd minute with a header from Godínez from a corner kick. Coach Juan Alfaro’s Chivas held firm against a flustered Pachuca, who suffered another blow in the 5th minute, when Valenzuela burst into the area and scored with his left foot, after goalkeeper Esthefanny Barrera had come out.
Pachuca recovered. The leading scorer of the championship, Charlyn Corral, missed clear options on three occasions, two with the ball on the post, but her team tied thanks to Jenni Hermoso, who put the ball to Soto, who scored with his left foot in the 20th minute, and scored 2-2 with a penalty kick, in the 43rd.
In the second half, Barrera saved Pachuca by coming into the area with everything in favor of Jaramillo, in minute 50, after which Pachuca had the best attacking actions. Guadalajara goalkeeper Blanca Félix kept out Corral and Hermoso, who entered the area with everything in their favor in the 79th minute and Barrera saved Pachuca with a minute’s save to dry up Alicia Cervantes’ attack.
Dramatic overtones in the final minutes
The match had dramatic overtones in stoppage time; Hermoso converted an elegant goal by tapping in with his right foot after a corner taken by Corral, in the 91st minute and Chivas leveled at 3-3, with a left-footed shot from Jaramillo to with Rubí Soto’s pass, in the 93rd minute.
“The goals have not served to take us the victory, which is what we wanted; I have a bitter taste, but I have confidence in my team. We were shown that we know how to play with the greats,” Jenni said afterwards of the match.
The second leg of the series is next Sunday in Guadalajara, home of Chivas. This Friday the champion Tigres will visit Atlas, América in Juárez and Monterrey in Tijuana in the other first legs of the best of eight stages.
Source: La Verdad
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