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Sports Editorial, Apr 8 (EFE).- Inter Miami is waiting for the green light to have Lionel Messi in coach Gerardo Martino’s ‘rescue plan’ to take the Garzas team to the semifinals of the Champions Cup this Wednesday. Concacaf, a difficult mission due to the 1-2 advantage that Monterrey took eight days ago.
The second leg of the quarterfinals left the teams that started at home in serious difficulties.
For Inter Miami, hope was reborn on Saturday when Messi returned to the field after spending almost three weeks in dry dock due to a muscle injury.
The captain of the Argentine team gave his team the lead against Colorado Rapids, who equalized on the hour mark.
The new meeting between Monterrey and Inter Miami is preceded by bitter tensions between the coach of the Mexican team, the Argentine Fernando ‘Tano’ Ortiz, and the rival players.
All because before the beginning of this series Ortiz left a message to his pupils to approach Messi as just another footballer, and not to be intimidated by his career.
The second leg of the quarterfinals will open this Tuesday at the stadium of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) Tigres and Columbus Crew, who tied 1-1 on April 2 at Lower.com Field.
Tigres came out with a bad taste in their mouth because they were able to take the three points with the goal from Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac.
But Uruguayan winger Diego Rossi saved the furniture from the shipwreck for Frenchman Wilfried Nancy’s team.
América and Pachuca, two of the two most emblematic clubs in Mexico, last week paved a long stretch of the road to the semifinals with two away wins. And this week, with home games and supported by their fans, they have everything to certify their classification.
If the superiority demonstrated last week in the first leg over New England from the United States and Herediano from Costa Rica is confirmed between Tuesday and Wednesday, América and Pachuca will meet in the semifinals.
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The Águilas del América await New England this Tuesday at the Azteca stadium, which on April 2 was humiliated 0-4 in their backyard, the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough (Massachusetts).
Uruguayan striker Brian Rodríguez put the finishing touch that day in the 91st minute to a festival of goals opened by Mexicans Henry Martín, Alejandro Zendejas and Cristian Calderón.
Everything went well for Pachuca last Wednesday at the National Stadium in Costa Rica. Venezuelan striker Salomón Rondón dismantled the entire structure of Mexican Héctor Altamirano’s team with a hat trick.
The first goal of the top scorer in the history of Vinotinto came just 3 minutes after the opening whistle. In the 16th minute he signed the second and completed it in the 68th minute.
– Second leg matches of the Concacaf Champions Cup
09.04 Tigres (MEX) – Columbus Crew (USA) First leg: 1-1
09.04 America (MEX) – New England (USA) One way: 0-4
10.04 Pachuca (MEX) – Herediano (CRC) First leg: 0-5
10.04 Monterrey (MEX) – Inter Miami (USA) Ida: 1-2
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