Orlando (USA), Dec 15 (EFE) .- The UANL Tigers easily beat New York City 4-0 on Tuesday in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals Concacaf, which was played at the neutral venue in Orlando, and progressed to the semifinal after achieving an aggregate score of 5-0.
The Monterrey team will have CD Olimpia as a rival in the semifinal, which in the first match of the double day, lost 0-1 to Impact Montreal, but had won the first leg by 1-2 and double the value of the Visitor goals made the difference in favor of the San Pedro Sula team (Honduras).
The Tigers, who had already won (0-1) in New York, in the first leg, ended the game and the tie when at minute 30 of the first half, French striker André-Pierre Gignac scored 1-0 , which was all his team needed to secure the pass.
Although the scoreboard no longer moved during the first half, as soon as the actions resumed, at 49, this time through Leonardo Fernández, who as happened to Gignac received the assistance of Luis Quiñones, who became the great figure of the match.
The 2-0 scoreboard left everything to be successful and the Liga MX team dedicated itself to giving the New Yorker a footballing lesson and scoring efficiency, who was throughout the game with a great fighting spirit and physical effort, but without ideas football and no success in the shots on goal.
Quite the opposite of what happened with the Tigres who made six shots on goal and four were goals, including the 3-0 that reached the 64th minute through Rafael Carioca, who also took advantage of the assistance that Quiñones gave him.
But it was still missing that the scoring display was greater and at 85 minutes came the final 4-0 that Javier Aquino scored after receiving the assistance of Gignac.
The Tigers not only did a great counterattack football but they always anticipated in the decisive plays, the pressure in the center of the field was perfect and the defense did not make any kind of concessions.
In addition to having in the Argentine goalkeeper Nahuel Guzmán another of the outstanding players, who prevented with four great interventions that New York City could get at least the goal of honor.
A great triumph achieved by the Tigres and by Mexican soccer that confirmed the great difference that exists between the soccer of Liga MX teams versus those of the MLS.
Datasheet:
4 – Tigres UANL: Nahuel Guzmán; Luis Rodríguez, Hugo Ayala, Carlos Salcedo (m.72, Francisco Meza), Jesús Dueñas; Javier Aquino, Guido Pizarro, Rafael Carioca, Luis Quiñones (m.86, Nicolás López); Leonardo Fernández (m.72, Raymundo Fulgencio) and André-Pierre Gignac.
Coach: Ricardo “Tuca” Ferretti.
0 – New York City: Luis Barraza; Anton Tinnerholm, Maxime Chanot (m.89, Sebastien Ibeagha), Alexander Callens, Ronald Matarrita (m.70, Gudmundur Thórarinsson); Nicolás Acevedo (m.89, Tony Rocha), Maximiliano Moralez, Ismael Tajouri-Shradi (m.70, Andres Jasson), Jesús Medina (m.69, Keaton Parks); Gary Mackay-Steven and Valentín Castellanos.
Coach: Ronny Deila
Goals: 1-0, m.30: André-Pierre Gignac. 2-0, m.49: Leonardo Fernández. 3-0, m.64: Rafael Carioca. 4-0, m.85: Javier Aquino.
Referee: Daneion Parchment (Jamaica). He showed a yellow card to Jesús Dueñas (m.34) and Guido Pizarro (m.75), from the Tigres, while Gary Mackay-Steven (m.37), Valentín Castellanos (m.61), Jesús Medina (m.69) ) also received it by New York City.
Incidents: Second leg of the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions League that was played at Exploria Stadium, Orlando (Florida) .EFE
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