After the 2-2 draw in the first leg, the Cougars of Liga MX and Sports Saprissa of Costa Rica will meet again in the game of round of 16 second leg of the Concacaf Champions League on Wednesday night at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City.
Washington Corozo and Juan Dinenno scored the goals for Pumas, but it was Saprissa’s Christian Bolaños who stole the show with a double, 17 years after scoring against the auriazul team in the final of the former 2005 Concacaf Champions Cup.
The Saprissa’s last meeting on Mexican soil resulted in a 5-1 loss against Tigres UNAL in the 2019 edition, so the improvement will be in the mind of the ‘Monstruo Morado’, who would also like to break a streak of six games without winning in the Concacaf Champions League.
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The UNAM Cougars They come into Wednesday’s game confident that they have a very solid home record in Concacaf club tournaments. Including the Champions League and the Concacaf Champions Cup, the Unamite team has a record of 27 wins, five draws and the same losses, with 104 goals scored and 22 against.
Hoping to add to those stats will be key figures like Dinenno and José Ricardo Galindo, the latter of whom recorded three kills and 43 completions in the first leg.
Meanwhile, veteran goalkeeper and former Gold Glove Award winner Alfredo Talavera is a sure thing on the defensive end and made five saves in last week’s first leg.
Two teams with three Concacaf Champions Cup titles in their trophy case will be looking to take a big step forward in the quest for a fourth trophy.
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The Unamita technical director, Andrés Lillini, anticipated in a press conference this afternoon that the players of the youth categories will continue as protagonists of both tournaments in which they compete as they are the reinforcements that supply their squad.
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