By Edgardo Avelar
LAFC arrived at the Nemesio Diez Stadium with the intention of surprising the Toluca at a height of more than 2,500 meters above sea level, but they only lasted 49 minutes and were then torn to pieces by the “Red Devils” to advance to the final of the Concachampions against the Tigres de la UANL.
A resounding and lapidary victory in the last five minutes, when the Unlit & Gold were already completely annihilated by the ravages of the atmospheric conditions and where their legs no longer responded to them, but first they had Toluca in the middle of the tension, first for trying to score the first goal that occurred until the second half.
Because in the first half, the Los Angeles team was very neat and hard on the mark, with double assignments that prevented Toluca’s goal men, such as Paulinho, Helinho, Marcel Ruiz, Nico Castro, Jesús Angulo and Franco Romero, They had to play first-intention in search of causing damage with first-intention shots.
Just in the 49th minute, the Brazilian Helinho scored the penalty that put Toluca on the way to the final, but where they were always at risk due to the danger of the attack of the Angelenos made up of the South Korean Son Heung-Min and the Franco-Gabonian Denis Bouanga.
But in the end Toluca’s will to continue trying to beat the goal of French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was stronger than the opposition of the defenders of the California team and in the end, in the 58th minute, Everaldo López, with a great goal on the edge of the large area, He stopped Lloris and made it 2-0.
With a two-goal deficit, LAFC coach Marc Dos Santos sought to vary his attack by sending Venezuelan David Martínez, to the Portuguese Canadian Stephen Eustaquio and Jeremy Ebobisse, but they could not make a scratch for the scarlets.
Even the changes messed up LAFC, because everyone wanted to win the war alone and that was when the Mexicans took advantage of the freedoms in the brand. that they did not have in the first half to achieve a score that at the end of the day was 5-2.
At the end, the visiting team lowered the sails in a sign of dejection and that was when Paulinho, with two goals in the last five minutes, turned the victory over the Los Angeles squad into a rout to place themselves in the grand final on May 20 against the Tigres de la UANL in the same Nemesio Diez stadium, to see each other again in a definitive game in the last six months.
Another important point in this duel, Marcel Ruiz looked like he did in his best dayswithout any sighting of the serious injury to his right knee, and that puts pressure on the coach of the Mexico national team, Javier Aguirre, who did not take it into account due to the issue of the consequences of the injury, but in this game he looked like he did in his best days and That opens the pace to be able to go to the World Cup.
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