Uruguay’s Fernando Gorriarán scored the goal on Thursday as Mexico’s Tigres UANL eliminated Cincinnati of the United States and advanced to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup, where they will face Seattle Sounders of the MLS.
Tigres won 5-1 with a goal in added time by Gorriarán and qualified with a total score of 5-4, after losing the first leg 3-0 in their visit to Cincinnati the previous week.
Tigres imposes conditions from the start
Two goals from Ozziel Herrera and two more from Uruguayan Rodrigo Aguirre completed the felines’ tally; Kevin Denkey scored for the visitors.
Tigres took the lead right from the start in this CONCACAF Champions Cup duel.
In the fifth minute, Diego Lainez broke down the right and passed to Jesús Garza, who crossed for Rodrigo Aguirre, who celebrated the 1-0 lead.
The pressure continued and in the 10th minute, Ozziel Herrera did some damage on the left side of the box without a mark and fired a powerful shot at the opposite post to make it 2-0.
They win the elimination round with a goal
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In the second half, the felines started with the same determination.
In the 46th minute, Ozziel Herrera made it 3-0 with a shot from outside the box that went into the upper right corner.
Three minutes later, a spectacular scissor kick by Aguirre made it 4-0.
Cincinnati reacted thanks to a foul that Evander collected and finished off Denkey to leave Nahuel with no option; it was 4-1.
Gorriarán, who came on in the 78th minute, made it 5-1 in the 8th minute of added time with a shot to the goalkeeper’s right.
Technical data
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5. Tigres: Nahuel Guzmán; Jesús Garza (Marcelo Flores, minute 87), Jesús Angulo, Joaquim Henrique, Vladimir Loroña (Fernando Gorriarán, minute 78); César Araujo (Diego Sánchez, minute 87), Ángel Correa, Juan Brunetta (Iván López, minute 94), Diego Lainez; Rodrigo Aguirre, Ozziel Herrera (André-Pierre Gignac, minute 78).
Coach: Guido Pizarro.
Cincinnati: Roman Calentano, Gilberto Flores (Obbina Nwobodo, m.62), Miles Robinson, Teenage Hadebe (Matt Miazga, m.45), Bryan Ramírez; Evander (Nick Hagglund, m.87), Sami Gidi, Pavel Bucha, Ender Echenique (Alvas Powell, m.45); Kevin Denkey, Tom Barlow (Brian Anunga, m.77).
Coach: Patrick Noonan.
Goal: 1-0, minute 05: Aguirre. 2-0, 10 minutes: Herrera. 3-0, minute 46: Herrera. 4-0, 49th minute: Aguirre. 4-1, minute 49: Denkey. 5-1, minute 98: Gorriarán.
Referee: Mario Escobar of Guatemala. Yellow cards for Correa, Guzmán, Araujo and Lainez, Tigres; and Flores, Hadebe, Miazga and Anuga, Cincinnati.
Incidents: Second leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup round of 16 match between Tigres and Cincinnati at the Universitario stadium in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
With information from EFE
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