Led by young forward David Martínez from Venezuela, LAFC beat Tigres de la UANL 2-1 in a close match duel to revive their options of advancing to the next phase of the Leagues Cup and at the same time place the Liga MX felines in intensive care.

For the interests of the team from the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, the result was the worst they expected to achieve, especially when using their luxury eleven, but they never believed that David Martinez could be a good replacement for the French Gabonese Denis Bouanga, absent in this commitment by, but in the end they found out in the worst way when receiving two goals from the South American.

The defeat of the team led by Argentine Guido Pizarro thus compromises their pass to the next phase of this competition where teams from Major League Soccer (MLS) and Liga MX participate, because if Pumas defeats Inter Miami and Necaxa does the same with Orlando City, would be out of the second phase and even FC Juarez can not be ruled out of its duel against New York Red Bulls.

The game

Tigres did not take advantage of monopolizing the ball, since the arrivals of Gignac in the 10th minute and then in the 19th were simple approximations, although in the 22nd minute the Argentine Angel Correa almost scored the first goal of the game, but Los Angeles goalkeeper Thomas Hasal prevented the fall of his goal

But then referee Said Martinez played an important role by giving the weight of the field to LAFC when a dubious penalty by Uruguayan Fernando Gorriaran on Timothy Tillman put the Angels ahead 1-0 in the 38th minute.

For the second half, Gignac left the field and Edgar "Gacelo" Lopez was sent on and he responded in the 47th minute with a header to make it 1-1 that gave the felines encouragement to reach the second goal.

But LAFC responded and forced Nahuel Guzman to save his goal on two occasions at 60 and 61 minutes, giving encouragement to the locals to take advantage of the felines advancing their lines and in a tremendous drop down the left at 64, David Martinez managed to take Purata down the left flank, hold the defender's mark, get into the area and on the exit of Nahuel Guzman touch low to nestle the ball in the nets for 2-1.

Seeing themselves down on the scoreboard, Pizarro sent two more changes with the entry of Joaquim for Garza and Sebastian Cordova for Ozziel Herrera, to recover the speed and rhythm of the game, generating goal scoring opportunities as at 79 Angel Correa had the tie, but He let it go and finally Brunetta, in the dying moments of the game, crashed a ball into the crossbar and with that, the Tigres' chances of at least fighting for the extra point in penalties ended.