The selection of figures of the Liga MX crushed 4-1 this Wednesday to the one of the MLS in it All Star of the American league played in Columbus (Ohio).
The Argentines German Berterame (Monterrey), Juan Brunetta (Tigres) and Maxi Meza (Monterrey) and the Moroccan Oussama Idrissi (Pachuca) scored the decisive goals for the resounding victory of the Liga MX.
The MLS team, in which he did not participate Leo MessiInter Miami striker, who is suffering from an injury to the ligaments in his right ankle, paid for his lack of punch and, after equalizing Berterame’s opening goal with Colombian Juan Camilo ‘Cucho’ Hernández (Columbus Crew), received the Liga MX thrashing.
The selection of figures of the MLS had been crushed 5-0 last year by the Arsenal English.
Following the skills contest, won on Tuesday by the Liga MX team, MLS celebrated its All-Star game at Lower.com Field with notable absences of Leo Messi and the Uruguayan Luis Suárez.
But the MLS was able to count on a selection of figures that included the Spanish Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and Riqui Puig, Argentine MVP Lucho Acosta or Cucho. His poor aim and lack of defensive attention took their toll.
Liga MX featured a starting forward consisting of Germán Berterame and Frenchman Andre Pierre Gignac, with Salomón Rondón starting from the bench.
MLS started better, but it was Liga MX that broke the tie. They did so in the 15th minute with a great header from Berterame after a cross from Jonathan Dos Santos.
The response was immediate and bore the signature of two stars of the Columbus Crew. After a vertical pass from Busquets, Diego Rossi He placed the low cross that Cucho finished to equalize, but it was Liga MX who returned to the locker room with an advantage thanks to a great goal in the 41st minute from Oussama Idrissi, with a curved right-footed shot from outside the area.
The French technician Wilfried Nancywho led the MLS, revolutionized his eleven after the restart, moving to a three-man defensive line and fielding the Italian Federico Bernardeschi, the German Hany Mukhtar and the Belgian Christian Benteke in addition to Puig.
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The pressure from MLS increased vertically, but the crossbar repelled two shots from Puig and Mukhtar, with a header, and it was Liga MX that punished those errors with two goals in the space of two minutes. Juan Brunetta and Maxi Meza, who had just entered the field, respectively scored the 3-1 on the counterattack, and the 4-1.
The MLS continued to generate danger, but once again they came up against the defensive wall of Liga MX and suffered a tough defeat as host of the All Star.
– Data sheet:
1 – All Star MLS: Burki; Rosenberg, Glad, Thiago Martins, Alba; Busquets, Hector Herrera; Rossi, Acosta, Evander; Cucho. Also playing: Aaron Herrera, Lod, Luna, Camacho, Riqui Puig, Bouanga, Bernardeschi, Lloris, Moreira, Bombito, Orellaon, Choiniere, Mukhtar, Benteke, Paes, Gabriel Pec, Musa, Nagbe.
4 – All Star Liga MX: The following players also played: Rondon, Fidalgo, Rodrigo Dourado, Mier, Bilbao, Maxi Meza, Batista, Angulo, Garcia Caprizo, Brunetta, Guardado, Guillermo Martinez, Deossa, Tapia, Huerta Valera.
Goals: 0-1, m.15: Berterame; 1-1, m.16: Cucho; 1-2, m.41: Idrissi; 1-3, m.68: Brunetta; 1-4, m.69: Meza.
Referee: Guido Gonzales (USA). Showed a yellow card to Puig, from MLS.
Incidents: Match corresponding to the MLS ‘All Star’ played at Lower.Com Field in Columbus (Ohio) in front of nearly 20,000 spectators.
