Teams that complete Cinderella runs don’t make bad mistakes in front of their own goal, but that’s just what Jaguares did. The Mexican club that has surprised everyone by making it to the Copa Libertadores quarterfinals may have put the nail in their own coffin with an awful clearance that allowed Cerro Porteno to score and go ahead 1-0 in the second leg of the two-legged tie. The goal puts Cerro up 2-1 on aggregate and in Paraguay, Jaguares will have a tough time coming back.
Cerro Porteno Vs. Jaguares, 2011 Copa Libertadores: Cerro Go Ahead On Defensive Blunder
A corner kick was hit right at a Jaguares defender with no one around him. All he had to do was head it away to safety, but instead he hit it high up in the air, right at the edge of Jaguares’ own six-yard box. Fabian Villasenor came rushing off his line to punch it away, but he whiffed on the punch and Pedro Benitez headed itin for the Cerro goal that sent an already raucous home crowd into raptures.
Jaguares were already the underdog and now they are an even bigger underdog. If they manage a goal they can go to penalty kicks (there is no extra time in Copa Libertadores until the final), but even that looks like asking too much from the plucky Mexicans.
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