MEXICO CITY (Interstat) — Camilo da Silva Sanvezzo’s goal deep in second-half stoppage time lifted Toluca to a 4-3 victory over Cruz Azul on Sunday, April 26, 2026, at Estadio Azteca in a Week 8 Liga MX match that featured five goals, four yellow cards and a red card.

The visitors trailed 1-0 after José Ramiro Funes Mori scored for Cruz Azul in the 19th minute, but Toluca answered with two goals before halftime. Jean David Meneses Villarroel equalized in the 30th minute, and Marcel Alejandro Ruiz Suárez put Toluca ahead in the 43rd minute. Cruz Azul substitute Rodrigo Huescas leveled the match in the 81st minute, only for Sanvezzo, a substitute himself, to score the winner in the eighth minute of added time.

Cruz Azul played the final minutes a man down after goalkeeper Sebastián Jurado Roca was shown a red card in the first minute of stoppage time. The dismissal came after a sequence that also produced yellow cards for Cruz Azul’s José Ignacio Rivero Segade in the 90th minute and Carlos Uriel Antuna Romero in the 90th plus second minute. Toluca also received two yellow cards: defender Valber Roberto Huerta Jerez in the 44th minute and goalkeeper Tiago Luis Volpi in the 62nd minute.

Ruiz Suárez, a midfielder from Mérida, Mexico, played the full 90 minutes and scored the go-ahead goal just before halftime. Huescas, standing 5-7, entered as a substitute and scored in the 81st minute to pull Cruz Azul even. Sanvezzo, a Brazilian substitute from Presidente Prudente, entered the match and found the winner in the 98th minute, capping a dramatic finish. Meneses Villarroel, a 5-4 midfielder from Chile, played 78 minutes and opened Toluca’s scoring. Funes Mori, a defender from Mendoza, Argentina, played the full match and gave Cruz Azul the early lead.

The result moved Toluca to a 17-8-9 record across all competitions, matching their Liga MX mark of 17 wins, eight losses and nine draws. Cruz Azul fell to 17-7-8 overall, with a league record of 17 wins, six losses and eight draws. The two clubs entered Week 8 with identical win totals but divergent recent form; Toluca had lost three of its previous four league matches, including a 4-3 defeat at Mazatlán and a 7-2 home loss to Tijuana. Cruz Azul had drawn its last two league games, a 1-1 result at Querétaro and a 1-1 home tie with Tijuana, after a 3-1 loss at Santos Laguna.

The head-to-head series saw Cruz Azul win 1-0 at home in August 2025, followed by a 1-1 draw in Toluca in February 2026. Sunday’s match added another chapter to the rivalry, with Toluca grabbing its first win over Cruz Azul since a 4-0 triumph in September 2023, according to league records.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Cruz Azul 1, Toluca 1, while Interstat’s ELO system gave Cruz Azul a 70.70 percent probability to win. The actual result defied those projections as Toluca secured three points in dramatic fashion.