The Mexican teams Tuzos del Pachuca and the Tigres de la UANL could not have had a better night by eliminating Philadelphia Union and Orlando City with resounding scores of 6-0 and 4-2, to advance to the quarterfinals of the Concachampions.
Without a doubt, for the Mexican elevens, they will leave the Major League Soccer (MLS) teams behind. In any competition, it undoubtedly represents something favorable, especially in the recent rivalry that has been generated between both leagues and that now in the regional competition of the North, Central America and Caribbean Confederation (Concacaf), is seen signed with these two victories of the Aztec elevenths.
On the one hand, the Tuzos del Pachuca did it in a more lapidary way against a rival from the state of Pennsylvania who wanted to offer greater resistance and in the sin they carried out penance, since they returned home with half a dozen goals on their backs, three of them coming from the cannons of Venezuelan Salomón Rondón.
While, on the other hand, the UANL Tigres, who went through the most anguish, finally left the Florida state team on the road with a score of 4-2 and where in the end the goals from the university students calmed the revolution that the visitors tried to create in the second half.
In this sense, the cats led by the Uruguayan Robert Dante Siboldi, had in Sebastián Córdova their star chick, as the Mexican midfielder showed that he is up for big moments by sealing the victory with a great goal for the final 4-2.
With Pachuca, great night in Rondón
In the duel held at the Hidalgo stadium, Venezuelan forward Salomón Rondón demonstrated that he is still the goal man and the one who concludes all the offensive plays. Precisely, the Venezuelan was the most important factor in the first three goals when he was present in minutes 7, 45 + 6, and 53, which put the Americans on the ropes 3-0.
For the second half, the Colombian Nelson Deossa appeared at minute 57 to make it 4-0, then the Moroccan of Dutch origin Oussama Idrissi, who took advantage of a wall with Rondón and from outside the area sent a shot to beat Blake at 5-0 and Finally the 6-0 was the work of Alan Bautista to make the final score 6-0.
Tigres suffered to complete his work
Although it is true that Tigres, with Sebastián Córdova’s great goal in the 81st minute, sealed the qualification for the quarterfinals of the squad led by Uruguayan Robert Dante Sibolid, the reality is that the night was not calm and they had to work harder than necessary , because after the 2-0 that the cats achieved with the goals of Marcelo Flores and André Pierre Gignac, suddenly the score by the Uruguayan Facundo Torres in the 24th minute made the locals break out in a cold sweat, as one more score from Orlando City , the tiebreaker would have played against the felines.
But then came the own goal of the visiting goalkeeper, the Peruvian Pedro Gallese in the 68th minute and the great goal from Córdova in the 81st minute, which made the Florida team’s reaction useless with the goal of the Argentine Martín Ojeda in the 90+1 minute to leave everything behind. finally 4-1 and thus advance to the next phase.
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