Andre Jardine's reaction after the humiliating elimination of the Aguilas del America from the Leagues Cup

The Aguilas del America were removed from the Leagues Cup in a very controversial way. The Liga MX team equaled 2-2 with Nashville during regulation time. The pass to the quarterfinals would be decided from the penalty spot. There the Mexican team was left with honey on the lips.The Azulcremas footballers celebrated the victory after a penalty saved by Luis Malagon.However, the charge was repeated and the result was adverse (5-6).

Club America and Nasville played a very attractive match during the 90 minutes. The MLS team took the lead through Walker Zimmerman at minute 61. 17 minutes later, Diego Valdes equalized the actions. Julian Quinones would be the momentary hero of the Mexican team when he converted a penalty at 90+4, but an agonizing goal by Sam Surridge at 90+9 would put the tie on the scoreboard and everything would be defined through penalties.

It was at this point that the controversy arose. The Aguilas del America celebrated their pass to the quarterfinals of the Leagues Cup, after Luis Malagon stopped one of the charges of the batch. However, the VAR ruined the party for the cream-blue team, as they determined that the Mexican goalkeeper had gone ahead before the execution. This gave life to Nashville again and the pass to the next phase. Andre Jardine made no secret of his outrage.

Well, there is no doubt...

Luis Malagón is ahead...

Unorthodox procedure, but regulatory. @ClubAmerica suffered no injustice in the penalty shootout vs Nashville. pic.twitter.com/ZdI1mdOrsT

— Juan Guzmán Gasso (@GuzmanGasso) August 9, 2023

“It is a subject that I already spoke about in the other conference, the feeling is the same, not because we lose it happens, the criteria is not the same, a clear example is that in all the games we played they had many decisions and the referee did not went to VAR”, said the coach of the cream-blue team.

Leagues Cup with different measures

Andre Jardine also hinted that arbitration was not he acted with the same rigor throughout the engagement. The strategist of the Mexican team considers that during the game many dangerous actions were generated in favor of his club, but these were not sanctioned or reviewed from the video arbitration.

“The first one in our favour, the referee sees the VAR, in a very clear penalty, the penalty does not need a penalty; there is another in a center by Chava that was also a penalty, VAR is not necessary, there are many plays that could be dangerous and you find a foul and push, throw the same and they don't mark you, I'm honest, for me it's not an excuse, we're going to grow with our mistakes, but I feel outraged, in these four games it was always against us”, he sentenced.