The Vancouver Whitecaps De la Major League Soccer (MLS) tied on Wednesday 2-2 at the house of the Pumas UNAM To sign your pass to the semifinals of the Champions Cup of Concacaf. In the second leg of this quarter-final series, the British Sebastian Berhalter and the American Tristan Blackmon scored for the Canadians, which in the first leg matched 1-1 in his stadium, but they took the series to score more goals as visitors, the first tiebreaker criterion in the tournament.
Guillermo Martínez and Argentine Ignacio Pussetto converted for the Pumas. The WhiteCaps will face them in the next round against Inter Miami of the Argentine star Lionel Messi, who previously threw Los Angeles FC from the competition to advance the semifinals.
Piero Quispe (Pumas) disputes a ball with Vaselinovic
The Pumas began the first half with the domain of the match in the first 10 minutes, but after a failure of Guillermo Martínez with a shot stopped by the Japanese goal Yohei Takooka in 8, Vancouver took over the possession of the ball. After a shot in the 19 of the Ecuadorian Pedro Vite, of the Whitecaps, who rejected the Spanish goalkeeper Álex Padilla, the Canadians opened the scoring. It was just who stole the ball, approached the area and caused a rebound that Daniel Ríos took the opportunity to cross a service to Berhalter, who heeled defined 33 the 0-1 that put the WhiteCaps in the next round.
The reaction of the cats did not take and three minutes later, the Panamanian Adalberto Carrasquilla, in a corner kick play made a volley that Takaoka rejected, who left the ball in the area so that Martínez turned the 1-1.
Technical file
2 – Pumas UNAM: Álex Padilla; Rubén Duarte, Lisandro Magallán, Nathan Silva, Pablo Bennevendo; Jorge Ruvalcaba (Rodrigo López M.76), José Caicedo, Piero Quispe (Ignacio Pussetto M.66), Adalberto Carrasquilla, Leonardo Suárez (Pablo Monroy M.90+1); Guillermo Martínez (Rogelio Funes Mori M.66)
Coach: Efraín Juárez
2 – Vancouver: YOHEI TAKAKA; Tate Johnson (Damir Kreilach M.90+2), Ranko Veselinovic, Tristan Blackmon, Édier Ocampo; Jean-Claude Nandar (Emmanuel Sabbi M.62), Andrés Cubas, Sebastian Berhalter (Ralph Priso M.80); Ali Ahmed (Jeevan Badwal M.80), Daniel Ríos (Brian White M.45) and Pedro Vite
Coach: Jesper Sørensen
Goals: 0-1, Sebastian Berhalter (m. 33); 1-1, Guillermo Martínez (m. 37); 2-1, Ignacio Pussetto (m. 88); 2-2, Tristan Blackmon (m. 90+3)
Referee: Walter López, from Honduras. He admonished Daniel Ríos, Guillermo Martínez, Rubén Duarte, Édier Ocampo, Pedro Vite and Jorge Ruvalcaba
Incidents: Latch back of the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup, held at the University Olympic Stadium in Mexico City, at 2,240 meters above sea level.
The Pumas started the second half in search of the goal that gave the pass to the semifinals, but Takaoka rejected Martínez’s header, in 48, and in 59, to avoid the fall of their frame. In the final stretch of the match, the Pumas cornered the Whitecaps and in the 88 they scored the goal that put them in the phase of the best four, when Duarte, on the left, sent a service to the area that Pussetto nodded and Takaoka rejected, but left another rebound in the area that the Argentine himself transformed into the 2-1.
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However, the Whitecaps, with no offensive game in the second part, answered with an online pass from the Colombian Édier Ocampo that Blackmon headed between two defenders to realize 2-2 to 90+3 that gave Vancouver the pass to the semifinals.
