Both América and the UANL Tigreswere water and oil with rivals from the Major League Soccer (MLS) this Tuesday night in the Concachampions, when the Águilas team had no mercy for the New England Revolution to beat them 5-2 (global 9-2) and thus place themselves in the semifinals of this CONCACAF competition.
While the Tigers, by sinning from pride, in sin, carried the penance when they were eliminated in a series of penalties 3-4 at the hands of the Columbus Crew whose goalkeeper was Patrick Schulte, the hero of the night by stopping the shots in the penalty shootout by the Frenchman André Pierre Gignac and the Argentine Guido Pizarro.
Thus, history was written in favor of America led by the Brazilian André Jardine, who again did not hesitate to use the best of his team with Julián Quiñones, the Chilean Diego Valdés and Henry Martín, in the attack to give a review to the North American team that at the Azteca Stadium could not even Take your hands out to avoid the defeat.
The winning goals were scored by the Chilean Diego Valdés, Julián Quiñones, Henry Martín, the Mexican-American Alejandro Zendejas and the Uruguayan Brian Rodríguez, while for the New England Revolution team, the Albanian Giacomo Vrioni was present twice.
The reality of things is that the American team was never America’s rival on the field of play and after the 0-4 in the first leg, it was only a matter of seeing if the Águilas would cope with the actions or step on the accelerator as they finally did. they did to settle the final score with an overwhelming 9-2 that reflects the difference in capacity on the field of play and that allowed them to place themselves in the prelude to the grand final.
The Tigers paid dearly for their sins
The Tigres de la UANL, in the sin of arrogance, suffered the harsh penance of being eliminated in their own home by the Columbus Crew, due to the fact that after André Pierre Gignac’s goal in a blunder by goalkeeper Patrick Schulte in the 3rd minute of action, they never dared to finally take out their claws to take advantage of the cautious style of the Americans.
On the contrary, they bet on overcoming their rival and that cost them dearly when in the 59th minute the Uruguayan Diego Rossi, in a counterattack by the American team, tied the game 1-1 and thus forced the game to be extended until the series of penalties where the visiting team finally won.
Unfortunately, in the penalties, the two figures of Tigres, the French Andre Pierre Gignac and the Argentine Guido Pizarro made the figure of goalkeeper Schulte great, who by stopping his shots washed away his serious mistake in the first half and thus catapulted his team to the victory with a score of 3-4 that placed them in the semifinals and turned the feline night into a nightmare.
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