America Y Ya
·21 July 2025
América 1-3 Toluca: another setback for Las Águilas

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·21 July 2025
America adds another failure in 2025 by losing the Champion of Champions.
First half:
1′ AMERICA'S GOAL – Brian Rodriguez's individual play ends with a great assist for Alejandro Zendejas who perfectly defined for the 1-0.
What a way to start the match by the eagles; with a dressing room goal that allowed them to control the match better.
11′ Toluca's Goal – Romero finds a rebound and shoots from outside the area to the lower corner to tie the game.
Malagón could have done more in the goal; just as Romero was about to shoot, the Americanist goalkeeper gave a small jump and that prevented him from reaching the ball that was completely flat.
A few minutes later, Malagón almost made another mistake; he took too long to go out for a long ball from the rival and when he finally decided, he managed to win the ball, but his late reaction caused him to put a stomp on Sebastian Caceres, which fortunately did not end in injury.
America was a little better during the first half, but the rival was smart and cut off a lot of offensive actions with fouls, causing the eagles to lose concentration at several moments.
45’+4 – Toluca's Goal – After a corner kick, Méndez beats Aguirre's mark and shoots alone to turn the game around.
Second half:
As expected, the second half started with America as the absolute owner of the offensive actions and the ball, against a Toluca that went all the way back, looking for a counterattack to kill the game.
56′ Changes – Out: Sebastian Caceres, Erick Sanchez and Isaías Violante – In: Alexis Gutierrez, Kevin Alvarez and José Zúñiga.
68′ Israel Reyes missed a very clear one; he was completely alone in the area after a corner kick, but his header was totally deviated.
71′ Toluca's Goal – Again in a set-piece play the rival scored the 3-1.
77′ Goal annulled to America – The 'Panther' Zúñiga had brought America closer, but it was annulled by a millimetric offside.
88′ Red card for Igor Lichnovsky.
90’+3 – Changes: Out: Álvaro Fidalgo and Alejandro Zendejas – In: Alan Cervantes and Ramón Juárez.
It has been a 2025 of failures for Club America; they lost in the quarterfinals of Concachampions, they lost the final of the Apertura 2025, they lost the Play-in of the Club World Cup and they lost the Champion of Champions.
The team urgently needs a couple of high-ranking reinforcements, a creative player and someone who can accompany Álvaro Fidalgo in midfield. If these types of players do not arrive, we can forget about the upcoming tournaments.
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