Chilean Diego Valdés scored a goal with a late free kick to give Santos Laguna a 3-2 home victory over Querétaro in Mexican football’s 2021 Apertura.
Two-time Ecuadorian Ayrton Preciado and once Valdés scored for Santos under Uruguayan coach Guillermo Almada, who rose from twelfth to eighth and kept his chances of reaching the quarter-finals.