The Argentinian Franco Jara this Friday he converted the goals with which Pachuca beat the Atlas 2-0 at the start of the seventh day of the tournament 2020 closing Mexican football Atlas played with one less man from minute 63, when the referee sent off Jose Abella.
With this result, Pachuca rose from 11th place in the classification to seven by adding 10 units, while the Atlas stagnated in 15th place with six units. The game had few danger plays in the first half, Pachuca was the only team that managed to bother the rival goalkeeper, the Colombian Camilo Vargas.
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It took 10 minutes for the duel to present emotions. Luis Chávez, Pachuca midfielder, tried to surprise Vargas, who was ahead, but the ball failed to come down in time to enter the goal.
The match fell again in terms of arrivals until in 44, Chavez took a free kick that blew past Vargas’s left post.
The second half began with the same inertia that ended the first, with few dangerous actions, however, Pachuca managed to link his first dangerous play of the match at 54. Miguel Tapias leaked the ball to the area to Chávez, who mocked Edgar’s mark Zaldívar, and focused on the small area where Jara pushed for 0-1.
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Shortly after, Hugo Nervo, in a bad sweep, committed a penalty on Aguirre. Jara was in charge of charging the shot from the eleven steps by sending the ball to the center of the Vargas goal and converting 0-2. Pachuca maintained the harassment over the Atlas. At 71, Chávez took a free kick that threatened to enter the net through Atlas’s left post, but he, at one hand, refused.
A minute later, Paraguayan Juan Iturbe sneaked into the left-hand corner of the Atlas area, but Vargas stopped again. Atlas had his only shot on goal in the game until 85, when corner kick Jesus Isijara got a Chilean that Argentine goalkeeper Oscar Ustari crushed with two hands.
