Mexican UANL Tigres defeated Honduran Motagua 5-0 this Thursday and qualified for the semifinals of the Concacaf Champions League where they will face León.
In the second leg of the quarterfinals, the Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac, with a double, the Colombian Luis Quiñones, Jesús Angulo and the Argentinean Nicolás Ibáñez scored goals in which the cats sentenced the series to 6- 0 in their favour, after winning the first leg against Honduras 1-0 last week.
The Tigers dominated the first half against a Motagua team that barely managed 29 percent possession without making an offensive play.
The Cats opened the scoring in the 27th minute when Luis Quiñones broke in down the left and delayed the ball to Gignac, who hit it with first-time intent near the crossbar to make it 1-0 past Argentine goalkeeper Jonathan Rougier’s right post.
The local team continued its quest to end the series, however Rougier saved shots from Gignac, at 34, from Uruguayan Nicolás López, at 38, and from Sebastián Córdova, at 39.
The Hondurans didn’t react in the second half and the Cats finished the beating.
At the age of 66, Brazilian Rafael Carioca assisted Gignac from midfield, who tricked Rougier to, in the open frame, make it 2-0.
Quiñones made it 3-0 in the 83rd, with a left-footed shot that went into Rougier’s right corner. On a counterattack in the 88th, Jesús Angulo received a pass from Quiñones and crossed Rougier with his left foot to make it 4-0.
Ibáñez, because of the speed, beat a defender and made it 5-0 at 90.
-Data sheet:
5. UANL Tigers: Nahuel Guzmán; Javier Aquino, Igor Lichnovsky, Samir Caetano, Jesus Garza; Luis Quiñones, Fernando Gorriaran (Juan Pablo Vigón m.63), Guido Pizarro (Jesús Angulo m.63), Sebastián Córdova (Raymundo Fulgencio m.71); André-Pierre Gignac (Nicolás Ibáñez m.72) and Nicolás López (Rafael Carioca m.63).
Coach: Robert Dante Siboldi.
0. Motagua: Jonathan Rougier; Cristopher Meléndez (Kevin Álvarez m.45), Marcelo Pereira, Carlos Meléndez, Raúl Santos; Diego Rodríguez, Juan Delgado, Héctor Castellanos (Jonathan Núñez m.45), Walter Martínez (Gaspar Triverio m.63); Eddie Hernández (Roberto Moreira m.73) and Iván López (Lucas Campana m.62).
Coach: Ninrod Medina.
Goals: 1-0, m.27: André-Pierre Gignac; 2-0, m.66: André-Pierre Gignac; 3-0, m.83: Luis Quiñones; 4-0, m.88: Jesus Angulo; 5-0, m.90: Nicolás Ibáñez.
Referee: Guatemalan Walter López. He advised Cristopher Meléndez, Sebastián Córdova and Marcelo Pereira.
Incidents: The second leg of the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions League was played at the Estadio Universitario in Monterrey, in northern Mexico.
Source: La Verdad
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