The selection of figures from Liga MX beat 4-1 this Wednesday against MLS within All Star of the American league played Columbus (Ohio).
The Argentines Germán Berterame (Monterrey), Juan Brunetta (Tigres) and Maxi Meza (Monterrey) and the Moroccan Oussama Idrissi (Pachuca) They scored the decisive goals for a resounding Liga MX victory.
The MLS team, in which he did not participate Leo MessiThe Inter Miami forward, suffering from ligament damage in his right ankle, paid for his lack of punch and, after equalizing Berterame’s first goal with Colombian Juan Camilo ‘Cucho’ Hernández (Columbus Crew), has received the victory of the MX League.
The selection of figures from MLS was crushed 5-0 last year by Arsenal English.
After the skills tournament, which was won on Tuesday by the Liga MX team, MLS held its all-star game at Lower.com Field with notable casualties of Leo Messi and the Uruguayan Luis Suárez.
But MLS relied on a selection of numbers that included the Spaniard Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and Riqui Puig, the Argentine MVP Lucho Acosta or Cucho. A lack of goals and little attention to defense took their toll.
Liga MX featured an initial forward line formed by Germán Berterame and Frenchman Andre Pierre Gignac, with Salomón Rondón starting from the bench.
MLS started off better, but it was Liga MX that broke the tie. He did it in the 15th minute with a great header from Berterame after a cross from Jonathan Dos Santos.
The response was immediate and carried the signature of two stars of Columbus Crew. After a vertical pass of Busquets, Diego Rossi He put in a low center that Cucho finished off to equalize, but it was Liga MX who returned to the locker room with the advantage thanks to a fine goal in the 41st minute by Oussama Idrissi, who curled in a right-hander from outside the area.
The French coach Wilfried Nancywho led MLS, changed his starting eleven, switching to a defensive line of three and bringing in Italian Federico Bernardeschi, German Hany Mukhtar and Belgian Christian Benteke in addition to Puig.
MLS’s pressure mounted vertically, but the crossbar twice deflected Puig and Mukhtar’s headers, and Liga MX punished those mistakes with two goals in two minutes. Juan Brunetta and Maxi Meza, who had just entered the field, made it 3-1 on the counterattack, and 4-1.
MLS continued to pose a threat, but once again ran into Liga MX’s defensive wall and suffered a crushing defeat as host of the All Star.
– Data sheets:
1 – All Star MLS: Burki; Rosenberg, Glad, Thiago Martins, Alba; Busquets, Héctor Herrera; Rossi, Acosta, Evander; Cucho. Also playing: Aaron Herrera, Lod, Luna, Camacho, Riqui Puig, Bouanga, Bernardeschi, Lloris, Moreira, Bombito, Orellaon, Choiniere, Mukhtar, Benteke, Paes, Gabriel Pec, Musa, Nagbe.
4 – All Star Liga MX: Raging; Mozo, Pizarro, Piovi, González; Dos Santos, Rodríguez, Dilrosun, Idrissi; Gignac, Berterame. Also playing: Rondón, Fidalgo, Rodrigo Dourado, Mier, Bilbao, Maxi Meza, Batista, Angulo, García Caprizo, Brunetta, Guardado, Guillermo Martínez, Deossa, Tapia, Huerta Valera.
The objectives: 0-1, m.15: Berterame; 1-1, m.16: Cucho; 1-2, m.41: Idrissi; 1-3, m.68: Brunetta; 1-4, m.69: Meza.
Referee: Guido Gonzales (USA). He showed a yellow card to Puig, from MLS.
Incidents: MLS ‘All Star’ match played at Lower.Com Field in Columbus (Ohio) before nearly 20,000 spectators.
Source: La Verdad
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