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MLS groups won 3 of the 4 games they played Tuesday and Wednesday in the Concacaf League Concacaf, which resumed this week in Orlando after a break of more than nine months, but only LAFC made it to the semifinal. -final. LAFC beat Mexico’s Cruz Azul, 2-1, to set a date with another Mexican team, Club América, in the last 4 on Saturday. The Tigres de México will face Olimpia of Honduras in the other semifinal at Exploria Stadium. LAFC has become the first American team to defeat two Liga MX groups in a single Concacaf League campaign Concacaf. (Toronto FC was the first MLS club to eliminate two Liga MX groups in the same season, and it did so in 2018 when they reached the final. ) In February, LAFC defeated León with a 3-0 win in the stage of the moment after a 2-0 loss to Mexico. Cruz Azul’s series was due to start two weeks later, but the COVID-19 pandemic struck, forcing the first leg in Los Angeles to be postponed on March 12, the day American sports closed. The first leg had already been played in the other 3 quarter-final series – all 3 MLS groups lost – so when Concacaf played again this week in Orlando, the 3 series ended with their return matches while the LAFC series with Cruz Azul a decision was made with a Single Game. LAFC rebounded after a defensive clash that led to a penalty changed through Yoshimar Yotun in the 15th minute, and was the liveliest team thereafter despite a 3-week break after leaving the MLS playoffs. Array Carlos Vela received a penalty in the 38th minute after being brought down through Cruz Azul goalkeeper Sebastián Jurado. And Ghanaian Mahala Opoku, 19, a last season addition to an LAFC academy coach Bob Bradley visited last December, came from the bench to score the winner’s goal in the 58th minute. “The mindset team was really good, “Bradley said. “After I fell, there was a genuine preference to get back in the game. ” The victory was significant for LAFC, who were eliminated from the MLS playoffs via the Seattle Sounders, this time after wasting 4 players who contracted COVID-19 while serving on the South American national team in November. Diego Rossi, Diego Palacios and José Cifuentes started behind Cruz Azul, while Brian Rodríguez, the last player to return to Los Angeles, arrived late in Wednesday’s game from the bench (Cifuentes was not destined to play, he stayed with the his wife pregnant, but flew to Orlando Tuesday night after we decided she hadn’t gone into labor yet. ) Cruz Azul entered the game with her own problems Array Multiple players tested positive for COVID-19 last week , which brings the number of positive instances in the team to 17, 3 in La Liga MX Tijuana with 26 and Santos with 19. In the most sensible thing, l Uruguayan head coach Robert Siboldi had just been fired after La La Machine will lead 4-0 in the semifinals. of the Apertura Tournament, wasting the return to UNAM for the same score and was removed because Pumas had the most productive record in the normal season. NYCFC is also short-staffed for its stretch so far behind the Tigers. He entered the game without star goalkeeper Sean Johnson, who had not tested positive for COVID-19 but was noted as a close touch from a teammate who did. French star Andre-Pierre Gignac put Tigres ahead in the 30th minute, scoring 3 goals in the half for a 4-0 (5-0 overall) victory.
Montreal Impact’s task of seeking success over its 2–1 deficit against Olympia became more complicated because its players had to quarantine after returning home after the end of the MLS playoffs in the 2–1 loss to New England in November. 20. Due to the lack of practice, the Impact lacked 4 players who had started opposing the Revs, adding to star Bojan who had not joined the Impact in Orlando because he was un decided for next season. A purpose of Amar Sejdic, who helped Maryland win the 2018 NCAA title, gave the Impact a 1-0 win, but Olympia progressed thanks to its two purposes in the 2-1 victory nine months later. early in front of 22,704 fans at the Olympic stadium.
Club America lost to Atlanta United, 1-0, with a purpose through 19-year-old Jackson Conway, and signed Homegrown in their first-team deyet in Wednesday’s first game, but their 3-0 lead in the first leg remained. In fact, they had their chances, they had a 7-1 merit in the consequences, in their first game since the end of the normal MLS season on November 8. With a 6-14-3 record, Atlanta United was the only MLS quarter-final in Orlando that had “We asked the organization to take pride in the club,” said Stephen Glass, interim coach of Atlanta United. “I think they did, without a doubt. We were deserved winners. “
Photos: Concacaf. com/MexSport
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