Toluca vs Pumas LIVE Score Updates: Intense duel! (1-2) | 11/21/2021

It's over! Pumas surprises and beats Toluca, qualifying to the quarterfinals.

Toluca is on top looking for the second, but the Pumas defense prevents them from creating danger.

Both players are recovering and remain in the game.

Hard crash! Alan Mozo and Samudio are knocked down after a strong header inside Talavera's area.

Pumas change. Ricardo Galindo replaces Leo López.

Close! Haret García's shot, but the ball ends up hitting the crossbar.

Toluca changes. Braian Samudio and Jorge Rodríguez are substituted for Michael Estrada and Diego Rigonato.

Kevin Castañeda's shot, but the ball ended up over the goal.

Pumas change. Washington Corozo replaces Sebastián Saucedo.

Exchange for Pumas. Sale Diogo Oliveira by Higor Meritao

Goal by Toluca! Haret Ortega gives Toluca life from the penalty spot.

Penalty kick for Toluca! Mozo stopped the ball and the referee awards the penalty kick.

Toluca change. José Juan Vázquez comes off for Diego Chávez.

Saucedo had the courage to send a low shot to the inside of the far post, but the ball went just wide.

Goal, goal, goal for Pumas! Dinenno took advantage of a ball that was blocked by García and counter-attacked to increase the lead.

Goalkeeper! Dinenno's shot, but he fails to finish correctly and misses the second.

The second half begins, both teams will be looking for the opponent's goal.

End of the first half. With a great goal by Leo López, Pumas wins by the minimum.

Michael Estrada's header, but the ball goes over the goal.

Leo Lopez's shot ends up deflected.

 

Saucedo's service ends up going out of bounds.

Saucedo's cross, but Dinenno fails to finish off a clear encounter.

Fingers' López's shot, but Talavera deflects the ball in a great way.

Goal, goal, goal by Pumas! Leo Lopez blasts in a tremendous shot from midfield to open the scoring.

Ian Gonzalez's header goes over the crossbar.

The one that failed! Dinenno had the first, but his shot was too wide and he missed a clear shot.

Mozo's shot ends up going slightly over the goal.

The match kicks off in Toluca.

A. Talavera; A. Mozo, E. Velarde, N. Freire, A. Ortíz; E. Lira, S. Saucedo, F. Álvarez, L. López; J. Dinenno, D. Oliveira.

L. García; R. López, H. Ortega, O. Vanegas; R. Sambueza, C. Baeza, D. Rigonato, J. Vázquez; M. Estrada, I. González, A. Canelo.

Toluca has 26 wins over Pumas, a team that has 15 victories, and on 14 occasions the score has ended in a draw.

Both teams are already at the Nemesio Diez; this afternoon they will seek to defeat their opponents in order to qualify for the Liguilla.

These are the players who could be active for Pumas at some point during the match.

#20 Julio González
#16 Jerónimo Rodríguez
#189 Jesús Rivas 
#8 Higor Meritāo 
#13 Gerardo Moreno 
#14 Amaury García 
#31 Washington Corozo
#47 José Galindo 
#48 Marco Garcia 
#27 Emanuel Montejano

Rubens Sambueza is the most lethal player for Toluca; with his good ball handling, he will be looking to generate plays that will unbalance the Puma defense and thus reach the rival goal.

Hernán Cristante spoke about his opponent before the match: "Pumas is dangerous, they don't care if they break up the game, Dinneno and the midfielders work well together. I'm not worried about Pumas, I'm concerned about them.

In the last six games of the campaign, Pumas have won four of them; on the other hand, Toluca has gone eight games without a victory.

Toluca has to pay special attention to Juan Dinenno, the striker will be looking to hurt the scarlet squad and seek with his goals the qualification to the Liguilla.

The fans of both teams will be present at the Nemesio Diez stadium to witness this interesting clash between Toluca and Pumas.

Welcome to our coverage of the Toluca-Pumas match. This match corresponds to the Reclassification duel for the Liguilla of the Apertura 2021. We will shortly share with you the most relevant information about the match as well as the starting lineups.

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Juan Dinenno spoke prior to the match against Toluca: "We feel that we can win, that we have what it takes as long as we show it on the field, the best version of ourselves and we will surely achieve our objective and as I said before, this is a Final, there is no past, there is no future, it is only Sunday's match that determines everything. No, I don't feel like a favorite, but I do believe that we can win and I am convinced that I can win."

"Great players like Rubens prove it year after year and keep the numbers in terms of offense very high are. We have suffered in several parts of the tournament where I think we played a great game and didn't have the ability to hold a player like Sambueza or Canelo and they converted on us."

"It is one of the team's objectives to set out to keep the opposing team as far away from the goal as possible and obviously if you have players like Sambueza who are determinant it leads us to defend those players better."

"We had some very bad moments to be honest, I'm not going to put other words to it losing at América's field when we had played a great match and you leave with nothing, against Tigres where we generated goal situations galore and we tied 0-0, with Mazatlán I'm talking about match after match, they tied us in the 91st minute being better".

Rubens Sambueza also spoke to the media prior to the match: "Regarding what happened with the Tigres player, the national team player, I think it's disrespectful that people hide behind social networks to insult and threaten the family. I hope that the guilty party can be found, that person, as we say, who doesn't have the courage to say things in front of them".

"Pumas will be a complicated opponent as always, they come with an important state of mind, but I don't think that's of much use because it's another game. We are going to take our precautions, and I think it's going to be a nice playoff match." 

"Pumas comes with an important state of mind, but I don't think that's of much use because it's a totally different match."

"Unfortunately, we didn't manage to qualify directly, which was our main objective, we had an irregularity at the end of the championship for 8 games, but it was enough to place us in the playoffs. however, it's up to us to reverse this situation.

"We already played a playoff last season where we managed to advance on penalties and with this match we will look to bring out our best potential to advance to the quarterfinals."

"Words are superfluous in the face of these direct knockout matches, here it depends on each one of us, we have to give our best effort, a lot of will and sacrifice for the benefit of the team. me as captain, to encourage as much as possible, but also to show that we want to continue transcending."

"We have already faced Pumas here at home and it was a very difficult match. we will have to be a solid team in defense so that, from the midfield forward, everyone can show their best potential and make a difference.

Pumas came into this match after beating Cruz Azul in their last regular phase match, 4 goals to 3; the universitarios came from three goals down to surprise the fans. In this way, Pumas ended up knocking Necaxa out of the playoffs and became the last guest.

Toluca arrives at this match on a downward trend. In their last game of the regular phase, they lost by the minimum against Puebla; however, the good results they showed ended up placing the scarlet team in the sixth position of the table.

The Toluca vs Pumas match will be played at the Nemesio Diez Stadium, located in Toluca, State of Mexico. The stadium has a capacity of 30,000 people.

My name is Lore Solórzano and I’ll be your host for this game. We will provide you with pre-game analysis, score updates, and news as it happens live here on VAVEL.