Cancún ran riot at home against Cruz Azul, closing out a 6-0 victory in the Liga de Expansión MX Apertura seventh round on Saturday. The hosts, who had lost three of six matches, turned in a performance that left the visitors reeling on the pitch and scrambling for answers off it. By then you know a match is over when the scoreline starts running away from reality.
J. Rodriguez opened the scoring in the twelfth minute, putting the home side ahead before the visitors could settle. And here's the thing about the twentieth minute — C. Trejo doubled the lead, a moment that shifted the balance completely. Cruz Azul's I. Silva picked up a yellow card twenty-nine minutes in, then another four minutes later before the referee sent him off at the half-hour mark. One man down, the visitors had no answer to the pressure.
The goals never stopped coming. Rodriguez struck again in the seventy-sixth minute, and C. Vela added a fifth just before the hour-and-twenty mark. Two penalties in the dying moments — Rodriguez in the ninety-second minute, Trejo in the ninety-sixth — turned what could have been a comfortable win into a statement. The visitors' goalkeeper made six saves, but that was never going to be enough.
Statistics tell only part of the story. Both sides registered ninety-five attacks and held half the possession, but Cancún registered twelve shots on target to Cruz Azul's two. The visitors managed three key passes against thirteen for the hosts, and when you create seven big chances while your opponent manages one, the result is rarely in doubt.
Cancún move to ten places in the table with nine points from six games, while Cruz Azul remain fourteenth on six points from seven matches. The visitors had come into this round on a high, beating Tepatlán 6-0 in their previous outing, but that form evaporated in ninety minutes. Some matches are decided in three or four moments; the rest is just noise.