The Tigers once again had a magical night after beating Cincinnati 5-1, turning around a series in which they were down by three goals and thus advance to the Quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup.
The task was not easy but from the start the cats put their cards on the table and they closed the gap in just ten minutes, where they went ahead with two goals too early.
Rodrigo Aguirre opened the scoring just at 5′giving the pass to the net to a good play by Jesús Garza, putting the visiting defense in trouble. Quickly, Ozziel Herrera with his left foot made it 2-0 in the 10th minute, which made “Uni” vibrate, reducing the overall score to just one goal difference for overtime.
Despite several insistences, the revolutions dropped a little, and it was not until before the break that they re-emerged with another attempt by Herrera, however, Román Celentano deflected his shot and avoided a good score due to the previous play.
The second period was the same trend, where Guido Pizarro and company wove an incredible somersault with Aguirre as the protagonist. However, Ozziel first made it 3-0 at 46′ from long distance, sending everything to extra time at that moment.
But the nickname “Búfalo” was in charge of achieving the task a couple of minutes later and with a real great goal, breaking the nets with a scissors in the area to make it 4-0 and have the pass to the next stage in their hands.
Despite this, Not even all the royal attack stopped the hopes of the “Orange and Blues” who only waited for an action to add drama to the matter. With a set piece Kevin Denkey He made it 4-1 with an accurate header against a terrible feline mark, scoring the long-awaited visitor’s goal in the 65th minute.
This target did not make Guido Pizarro’s pupils lower their arms, going forward but the post denied Ozziel the score at 75′missing point-blank what the royal “little hand” was.
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Changes
Matt Miazga (45′, Teenage Hadebe), Alvas Powell (45′, Ender Echenique), Obinna Nwobodo (61′, Gilberto Flores), Fernando Gorriaran (77′, Vladimir Loroña), André-Pierre Gignac (77′, Ozziel Herrera), Tah Brian Anunga (77′, Tom Barlow), Nick Hagglund (86′, Evander), Marcelo Flores (86′, Jesús Garza), Diego Sanchez (86′, César Araújo), Ivan Lopez (93′, Juan Brunetta)
Goals
1-0, 4′: Aguirre2-0, 9′: Jonathan Herrera3-0, 45′: Jonathan Herrera4-0, 48′: Aguirre4-1, 64′: Ahoueke Denkey5-1, 97′: Fernando Gorriaran
Cards
Referee: Mario Escobar
VAR referee: Diego Ojer, Dilia Bradley
Belt (14′, Yellow), Gilberto Flores (19′, Yellow), Guzman (23′, Yellow), Teenage Hadebe (24′, Yellow), Cesar Araujo (60′,Yellow), Matt Miazga (63′, Yellow), Diego Lainez (67′, Yellow), Brian Anunga (86′, Yellow), Fernando Gorriaran (99′,Yellow), Edgar Lopez (100′,Yellow)
