Toluca and height annihilate LAFC: 4-0 and the concachampions final will be Mexican
LAFC endured 49 minutes the height of the city of Toluca and then was eliminated by the Red Devils 4-0 to become a finalist of the Concachampions
LAFC arrived at the Nemesio Diez Stadium with the intention of surprising Toluca at a height of more than 2500 meters above sea level, but only They lasted 49 minutes and then were destroyed by the “Red Devils” to advance to the final of the Concachampions against the Tigres of the UANL.
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, like Pauli nho, Helinho, Marcel Ruiz, Nico Castro, Jesús Angulo and Franco Romero, 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 on the path to the final to Toluca, but where they were always in r risk due to the dangerousness of the attack of the Angelians made up of the South Korean Son Heung-Min and the Franco-Gabonese Denis Bouanga.
But in the end the will of Toluca to continue trying to beat the goal of the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was more than the opposition of the defenders of the box from California and at the end, in minute 58, Everaldo López, with a goal on the edges of the large area, left Lloris standing and made 2-0.
With the disadvantage of two goals, LAFC coach, Marc Dos Santos, sought to vary his attack,by sending Venezuelan David Mart ínez, the Portuguese Canadian Stephen Eustaquio and Jeremy Ebobisse, but they couldn't make a scratch for the scarlets.
Even the changes disordered LAFC, because everyone wanted to win the war alone and it was when the Mexicans took advantage of the freedoms in the marking that they didn't have in the first half to achieve a scoreboard that in the end of accounts was overall 5-2.
In the end, the visiting team lowered the sails in a sign of despondency and it was when Paulinho, with two goals in the last five minutes, turned the victory over the Angelina Pa squad into a rout. ra place in the grand final next May 20 against the UANL Tigres in the same Nemesio Diez stadium, to see faces again in a definitive game in the last six months.
Another important point in this duel, is that Marcel Ruiz looked like on his best days, without any sighting of the serious injury in his right knee, and that puts pressure on the team coach ion from Mexico, Javier Aguirre, who didn't take him into account due to the issue of the aftermath of the injury, but in this game he looked like in his best days and that opens the time for being able to go to the World Cup.