After Miguel Herrera made a change of line-up during the semi-final second leg, the FMF commission annulled the goals of the French striker and Lichnovsky, so the score of the match was 0 – 2 in favor of the Guadalajara
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The Disciplinary Committee sanctioned Tigres for improper alignment in the semifinal against Atlas (Photo: Instagram/@clubtigresoficial)
The Disciplinary Commission of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) shared the resolution of the investigation it initiated against the Tigres club. During the semi-final second leg between the feline squad against the red and black team from Atlas, the team of Miguel Piojo Herrera was accused of improper alienation for having exceeded the number of foreign elements allowed on the playing field, so the sports authorities initiated due process.
Through an official statement published on May 26, the commission agreed on three punishments for the Piojo teamHerrera, among those that stand out is that the three goals scored by André-Pierre Gignac and the one scored by Igor Lichnovsky in the second half will not count.
Consequently, the score was 0 – 2 in favor of the red and black squad, with this modification, the overall score of the semifinal was 5 – 0.
Gignac scored a hat-trick in the second leg semifinal against Atlas, goals that were annulled by the Disciplinary Commission (Photo: Liga MX)
According to the arguments of the Disciplinary Commission, the first decision that was made was that the Nuevo León team will lose the match, due to because in the second leg he won with a score of 4 – 2, all the annotations made were without effect, which would be the second sanction, the annulment of the goals.
This was specified by the commission of the Mexican Federation:
“Club Tigres de la U.A.N.L. is sanctioned, with the loss of the match played on May 21, 2022, corresponding to the second leg of the LIGA MX Clausura 2022 Tournament Semifinals against Club Atlas, having violated the provisions of articles 48 and 49.7 of the MX League Competition Regulations, the result of said match 0-2 in favor of Club Atlas”, can be read in the press release.
The third sanction received by the San Nicolás de los Garza team It was a financial fine, although the amount that the Tigres board must pay was not revealed. Thus, the FMF will force the club to pay for the offense it committed in the game that took place at the Volcano Stadium.
The final score of the second leg was 0 – 2 in favor of Atlas; so the overall was 5 – 0 (Photo: Liga MX)
“Club Tigres de la U.A.N.L. is sanctioned with an economic fine”
What was the improper alignment committed by Miguel Herrera in the Tigres vs Atlas semi-final second leg?
The starting 11 with which Tigres started the game was the following: Nahuel Guzmán , Javier Aquino, Hugo Ayala, Igor Lichnovsky, Jesús Angulo, Luis Quiñones, Guido Pizarro, Rafael Carioca< /b>, Yeferson Soteldo, Carlos González and André-Pierre Gignac. Until then, the university studentsNuevo León already had eight foreign soccer players.
For the complementary part, Piojo decided to remove Hugo Ayala and replace Florian Thauvin. It was his only modification on the field, so the team competed the remaining 45 minutes with nine Players Not Trained in Mexico.
It should be remembered that within the Liga MX regulations it states what next:
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Nahuel Guzmán exploded after the elimination of Tigres and provoked an investigation against him (Photo: Twitter/@golesycifras)
So the local team violated the regulations of the Mexican league because on the field were: Nahuel Guzmán, Javier Aquino, Florian Thauvin, Igor Lichnovsky, Jesús Angulo, Luis Quiñones, Guido Pizarro, Rafael Carioca, Yeferson Soteldo, Carlos González and Gignac, that is to say that there were only two Mexican soccer players in the match with the Tigres jersey.
The minutes passed and began to fall Gignac’s goals and Lichnovsky’s, so until then he still had a chance of reaching the final. However, the last minutes were controversial because the VAR scored a penalty for the red and blacks, a fact that left Tigres eliminated.
< b>Nahuel Guzmán was involved in a series of acts that earned him a yellow card, after a well-taken penalty by Aldo Rocha. The controversy did not end because the goalkeeper was expelled for unsportsmanlike behavior, which returned to Tigres with eight foreign elements.