By Edgardo Avelar
When it seemed that the German Marco Reus would become the leader of the night for the LA Galaxy in the city of Toluca, the Portuguese appeared Paulinho to score a tremendous “hat trick” that returned the soul to the body of the “Red Devils” with a 4-2 victory in the first leg of the Concachampions.
Toluca was about to pay dearly for the audacity of overcoming its adversary, because suddenly they began to lose their balance in midfield, leaving gaps so serious that with a fresh Marco Reus In the last 20 minutes he was the one who took control of the actions and the Americans almost got the script.
Paulinho appeared at the right time for the scarlet squad that sent the German Reus in the last 25 minutes and with this the Angelenos seemed to revive to begin to hit a Toluca team that was satisfied with a 2-0 lead until the 66th minute, but suddenly the presence of Marco Reus revived its squad and was about to generate a catastrophe for the Mexicans when they had two goals in their favor through Nico Castro and the first from Paulinho.
Up to that point the script seemed in line with the facts and there was not even so much drama with the goal that the Portuguese striker missed incredibly when he shot a ball wide with the American goal unprotected. but suddenly the score of the Brazilian Gabriel Pec in full visitor effervescence with the entry of the German Marco Reus that made the score 2-1 at 66 minutes.
It was there when Paulinho reappeared with the 3-1 in an almost fortuitous shot in the area when the ball fell to him almost by chance in the 73rd minute and it seemed that everything was resolved, but Reus again He had other plans when in the 77th minute he managed to make it 3-2 and with that made the squad led by Antonio “Turco” Mohamed tremble..
But eight minutes later, Paulinho himself saved Toluca with his third goal of the night in the 85th minute by covering a clearance by the Los Angeles defense with such luck that the ball hit the back of the net and made the scarlet team’s soul return to its body. ahead of next Wednesday’s duel at the Dignity Neatly Being Sports Park in Carson, California and where it will be seen if two goals were enough to resolve the pass to the semifinals of the Concachampions and that at this moment seems up in the air.
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– Marco Reus extended his contract with the LA Galaxy
– LA Galaxy with a hat-trick by Gabriel Pec thrashed the decimated Mount Satisfying in the Concachampions
– Paulinho highlights the level of Liga MX prior to the duel against Mexico
