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EFE Bogotá 04/08/2024 at 16:24 CEST

Inter Miami awaits green light to have Lionel Messi in the ‘rescue plan’ of coach Gerardo Martino to take the Garzas team to the semifinals of the Concacaf Champions Cupa 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 the 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 He left a message to his pupils to face Messi like just another footballer and did not let themselves 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, which on April 2 They tied 1-1 at Lower.com Field.

AMERICA AND PACHUCA, ON THE WAY

Tigres left with a bad taste in their mouth, because they were able to take the three points with the goal by Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac. But Uruguayan winger Diego Rossi saved the furniture from the shipwreck for Frenchman Wilfried Nancy’s team.

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America 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.

To confirm between Tuesday and Wednesday the superiority demonstrated last week in the round of the first matches over the American New England and the Costa Rican Herediano, América and Pachuca will meet in the semifinals.

The Águilas del América await New England this Tuesday at the Azteca stadium, which on April 2 was humiliated 0-4 in their backyard, el Gillette Stadium en Foxborough (Massachusetts).

The 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.

To Pachuca Everything went well for him 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 initial whistle. In the 16th minute he signed the second and completed it in the 68th minute.