While the votes of the legislative elections and interparty consultations were taking place in Colombia for the period 2022 - 2026, in Mexico and Argentina three coffee players from the national team celebrated goal shouts and won with their respective teams this Sunday, March 13, 2022.
These are Yairo Moreno, Juan Fernando Quintero and Hárold Preciado, who scored in the triumphs of Pachuca (0-3 against Toluca); River Plate (4-0 against Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata); and Santos Laguna (double in 4-0 against Tijuana).
The first to report with the goal this Sunday was Yairo Moreno, who sealed the 0-3 win in favor of Pachuca at the Nemesio Diez stadium in Toluca in the 85th minute.
The Colombian did not start in the lineup chosen by Uruguayan coach Guillermo Almada, however he showed a touch of quality at the end of the engagement after being revulsive by fellow Colombian coach Avilés Hurtado in the 61st minute of the game.
Moreno usually moves as a scoreboard through the bands, but this time he served as a right winger in the 4-2-3-1 tactical scheme of Pachuca and knew how to finish a lethal air pass by Fernando Navarro in which the Colombian was enabled and instead of passing it to his teammate Nicolás Ibáñez, he defined hard and creeping the most close to goalkeeper Gustavo Gutierrez:
After this game, it was the turn of playing Juan Fernando Quintero as an initialist. The antioquian creation flyer also did not start in the initial squad of River Plate that hosted Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata in Buenos Aires.
The midfielder of the Colombia team entered the 64th minute by Nicolás De la Cruz when the score was already 2-0 with the penalty goals of Enzo Fernández (30′) and Julián Álvarez (45+1). In the 72nd minute, a third penalty came for River and the Colombian was measured to subtly charge the right hand club of goalkeeper Rodrigo Rey, who threw himself to the left side.
This was the definition of River's 10 before Braian Romero sealed the final 4-0 at Monumental at the 90th minute by the 6th date of the 2022 Professional League Cup:
Finally, it was his turn for the two-time champion with Deportivo Cali and recently called up to the Colombia national team by Reinaldo Rueda: Harold Preciado.
At the TSM Corona Stadium in Torreón, Santos Laguna hosted Club Tijuana at the close of the 10th date of the Liga MX 2022 Clausura tournament.
The green-and-white team did theirs at home and beat the Xolos 4-0, depriving them of entering the postseason zone to define the title of this championship.
Santos started winning in the first half by the slightest difference in the slate. However, at minute 69 'the story changed thanks to the header inside the area of Hárold Preciado in a corner kick that his rivals missed without referencing him. The Colombian took advantage of the dispatch of his companion Leonardo Suárez and nodded with complete peace of mind to celebrate 2-0 on the slate. The play required a review of the VAR, but the goal was finally sanctioned.
Santos took advantage of Xolos' desperation to try to get closer on the scoreboard and made the 3-0 in a counterattack, in which a series of rebounds in the area of the visiting team, left Leonardo Suárez in front of Jonathan Orozco, who he beat with a powerful shot at 85′.
Already in the added time, the Warriors scored 4-0, with the second goal of the night for Harold Preciado, who took advantage of a mistake by Jonathan Orozco, goalkeeper who left a rebound to the center of the box, where the Colombian attacker was attentive to push the ball into the Tijuana nets:
Preciado is now his club's top scorer with five goals so far in the league season in Mexico, while Juanfer Quintero scored three goals in the Professional League Cup with River Plate, is the second highest scorer of the season behind Julian Alvarez (4 goals).
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