Upside down and in recovery time. She went like this the goal that Guido Pizarro convertedmidfielder trained in Lanús and with a past in the Argentina national team, which allowed it Tigers become champions for the eighth time in its history in Mexico Leagueafter winning the final 3-2 as guests against Chivas de Guadalajara and winning the Closing Tournament 2023.

Thanks to the conversion of the 33-year-old Argentine footballer, who also played in Seville and participated in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers in Russia and the 2019 Copa América with the national team, the Nuevo León team he came back from a two-goal deficit in front of 45,000 spectators and returned to the top of football in his country.

Chivas was superior at the start of the duel at Akron Stadium, after a first leg ended in a draw to zero. Roberto Alvarado scored the locals’ first goal of the game, after 11 minutes, and Víctor Guzmán extended Guadalajara’s lead to 20 minutes into the half.

However, Tigres, who also had among his titles the goalkeeper of Rosario Nahuel Guzmánanother ex-Argentine national team member, he fought back in the 20th minute with a penalty converted by veteran French striker André-Pierre Gignac and equaled the result with a goal from Sebastián Córdova in the 26th minute.

With the linked series, the definition was moved to extra time. It was there where Captain Pizarro appeared connect a ball with his head in the 5th minute of the second half and give the victory and the title to the runner-up of the 2015 Copa Libertadores, who hadn’t won a local title since the 2019 Clausura tournament.

“This is Tigres, they know how to suffer and now enjoy,” the French expert Gignac slipped in after the consecration. For his part, Nahuel Guzmán highlighted the intervention of the Uruguayan Robert Siboldi, one of the three coaches that the team had during the championship, in the break of regular time.

“Our face changed at half-time, we felt it and played like in the neighborhood,” said the former Newell’s goalkeeper, a member of Argentina’s squad in Russia 2018, among other competitions.

in tigers Nicolás Ibáñez from Santa Fe also entered this Sunday. The former forward of Communications and Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata replaced Jesús Garza, after Gignac’s temporary discount.

The Tigres title also belongs to Diego Cocca

The varsity team won the championship in an atypical tournament in which he had three coaches. The Argentine Diego Cocca He arrived at Tigres in November 2022 to replace Miguel “Piojo” Herrera and was the one who started the tournament.

However, in February of this year he left the institution to lead the Mexican team. He did it with the undefeated team from Nueva León, with three wins and two draws.

Cocca, who established himself in Mexico with Atlas in the 2021 Apertura and Clausura tournaments, was replaced by Marco Ruiz, who was fired after the fourteenth date. Uruguayan Robert Dante Siboldi then took over and led Tigres to a new consecration.

“This team is always used to fighting for the title and the team they had had to fight for the title. What the guys did in this tournament was really amazing,” said Siboldi, who won the second championship in Mexico after getting the Clausura 2018 when he was in charge of Santos and beat Toluca.

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