By Edgardo Avelar
LAFC he had no qualms about Blue Cross will prioritize next Saturday’s duel against America in the 205th edition of the history of the young classic and that for that decision he paid dearly for his audacity to fall into resounding 3-0 with the Dark & Gold, which leaves them almost eliminated from the Concachampions.
The Los Angeles team, which is going through a great streak, used the best of its repertoire in a tournament that matters too much to them to demonstrate on the BMO Stadium field because they are the best team currently in Main League Soccer (MLS) to give the cement producers a resounding 3-0 with goals from South Korean Son Heung-Min and a double from Venezuelan David Martínez, one of them of great workmanship.
Perhaps coach Nicolás Larcamón thought that, because they were the current champions of this competition, after they reported on the Vancouver Whitecaps last yeareverything was said, but in reality, in sin, they carried out their penance with a resounding defeat that placed them on the brink of elimination and another of their classic and historical “blue crosses.”
LAFC simply showed on the field why, After so many matches (including MLS and Concacaf), they remain undefeated with nine wins and two draws, where they have scored 27 goals and only conceded threemaking the Celeste Machine pay dearly for its audacity to use players like Jorge Rodarte, Amaury Garcia and Omar Chagoya in its low team instead of the Argentinians Gonzalo Piovi, Carlos Rotondi and Omar Campos, who logically were easy prey for their adversaries.
Cruz Azul: a lot of touch, little definition
It was of no use to Cruz Azul to have a higher percentage of possession of the ball with 65 percent, because in fact, the Los Angeles team with its vertical transition with the French Gabonese Denis Bouanga and the South Korean Son Heung-Min, the Venezuelan David Martínez and the Canadian Mathieu Choinièreput the celestial team in trouble, as demonstrated by the 2-0 in the first half with the scores of Son Heung-Min and David Martínez, in a real great goal, taking a complacent mark from the Mexicans.
LAFC took almost half an hour to open the scoring and with this ended the balance of Cruz Azul when the German Timothy Tillman won a divided ball in the center of the field and threw it into space for the Quebec Mathieu Choinière, who rode down the right wing and put in a cross that Son Heung-Min completed.
The 2-0 didn’t take too long, because in the 39th minute Choinière sent a long ball to Venezuelan David Martínez, also on the right wing. With explosive speed he entered the area despite Erik Lira’s mark and scored between the legs of Colombian Kevin Mier in an authentic goaltaking the mark of the cement captain.
For the second half, LAFC did not take too long to put out Cruz Azul’s air of rebellion, which never settled back on the field and seemed like an ineffective box for Martínez to score another goal of great manufacture with a cross shot, He beat Colombian goalkeeper Kevin Mier and made it 3-0, which in the end was final.
With three goals against, Larcamón wanted to react sending to the field Omar Campos, Carlos Rotondi, Luka Romero and Nicolás Ibáñez, but the damage was done and the weight of elimination in the 2026 edition hangs over the celestials with this heavy scoreboard that next Tuesday at the Cuauhtémoc stadium in Puebla forces the cement producers to work a true miracle to avoid elimination.
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