Incredible scenes in Mexico, where CD Veracruz allowed Tigres to score in comical fashion while protesting unpaid wages.
The home crowd at Estadio Luis Pirata Fuente saw their side take the kickoff and play the ball back to the goalkeeper as the substitutes walked to the touch-line to stand in solidarity with their teammates on the pitch.
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After a little over a minute, goalkeeper Sebastian Jurado sent the ball into the Tigres half, where the visitors offered a very odd vision, dribbling and passing down the pitch to loft a ball into the unguarded goal. Tigres would score another after barely more than three minutes of play, and had a 3-0 lead after eight minutes through a goal by Andre-Pierre Gignac and an Eduardo Vargas brace.
According to the TV broadcast in Mexico, relayed by Tom Marshall of ESPN, Veracruz is upset that Tigres shot on goal during the 3-minute protest, the planned length of which they believed was communicated to the visitors.
Not a great look for Tigres.
And so the match got chippy, with Jesus Duenas of Tigres sent off in the 26th. Will Veracruz somehow fight back for a point?
Veracruz is last place in the Apertura season, while third place Tigres has buttressed its goal differential. Unreal.
¡HISTÓRICO!
— TUDN USA (@TUDNUSA) October 19, 2019
El partido arrancó entre @clubtiburones y @tigresoficial. Veracruz no opone resistencia y se dejó anotar.
🦈 0-1 🐯#Veracruz | #Tigres | #TULigaMX
🔴 EN VIVO 👉 https://t.co/4v6qrBcrPc pic.twitter.com/GC5erMp9Lq
2-0 didn’t feature anything too much more active from Veracruz.
¡Gooool de @tigresoficial!
— TUDN USA (@TUDNUSA) October 19, 2019
De esta manera extraña, Gignac anota su gol 100 en la Liga MX...
🦈 0-2 🐯#Veracruz | #Tigres | #TULigaMX
🔴 EN VIVO 👉 https://t.co/4v6qrBcrPc pic.twitter.com/vD2tE85Dqi