Blue Cross receives Montréal Impact at the Azteca Stadium in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League. The cement producers will try to take advantage of the locality to take the advantage to sentence their pass in Canada.
Those led by John Reynoso will have to turn the page after the loss to Puebla and concentrate fully on the international tournament to seek their pass to the semifinals. The good news for the Machine is that it has the scales in its favor in its short history of facing Canadian teams.
In total, in his history he only has 6 matches, distributed with 2 Canadian clubs: Toronto FC and F.C.. The latter was their rival in the round of 16 and both games were won by Cruz Azul. The first, held in Ontario, won 1-0 with a goal from Romulo Otero. While he won the second leg with goals from Ángel Romero, Rafael Baca and Juan Escobar.
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While at Toronto FC, the La Noria team has faced him four times, twice in the 2010-2011 season and the second in the 2021 campaign. In the first, they met in the group stage and Cruz Azul lost the first game 2-1, held in Canada; the only goal of the Machine did Christian Gimenez.
In the second match, held at the Blue Stadium, tied goalless, but Cruz Azul advanced to the next round as second in their group. While in the 2021 season, the cement workers eliminated Toronto in the quarterfinals with a 4-1 aggregate score.
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In the first leg they won 3-1 as visitors, with a double by Bryan Angle and one more of Paul Aguilar. While in the second leg another solitary goal from Angulo sealed the pass to the semi-finals for the Machine, which was eliminated 5-1 on aggregate by Rayados. Now, those from La Noria will try to maintain the good run against Canadian teams and get back among the 4 semifinalists.
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