With goals from the Argentine Valentin Castellanosthe NY City FCreigning MLS champion, beat Santos de Guápiles of Costa Rica on Tuesday 2-0in the first leg of the round of 16 of the CONCACAF Champions League held at the National Stadium in San José.
The goals of the New York club were marked by Castellanos (5 penalty and 30).
At minute five, NY City FC took an early 1-0 lead on a penalty thanks to a hand inside the small area by Michael Barquero.
the penalty was successfully charged by the Argentine Castellanosthat, although the goalkeeper Kevin Ruiz The power of the shot came to touch it was too much.
a minute before, goalkeeper Ruiz had shone by rejecting a couple of shots in a row in the small area of the also Argentinian Maximiliano Moralez and the Brazilian Telles Magno.
After a lot of pressure from the visiting team, at minute 30, after a bad rejection by a Santos defender, the striker Castellanos appeared againwho took advantage with a direct diagonal kick to the second post for the 2-0 of the New York club.
It was thus that Castellanos, leading scorer in the last season of the MLS, he showed his eye for goal again with two goals in the first 30 minutes of play.
The New York club was left with ten men on the field due to a direct red card from referee José Torres to the Uruguayan Santiago Rodriguez for dangerous play at minute 69.
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