This Wednesday, February 7 at 9:00 p.m. at the Starlight Stadium, the Tigres UANL will make their debut in the first leg of the first round of the Concacaf Champions Cup 2024 in front of Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer, it will be the fourth time that these teams face each other, previously they met twice in the continental tournament and once in the first edition of the Leagues Cup 2023.
The first time that both teams met was in the semifinal of the then-called CONCACAF Champions League in the 2017 edition, where those from San Nicolás de los Garza emerged victorious after 4-1 on aggregate.
The first leg was at the Universitario Stadium, and the royals took advantage to take a 2-0 advantage thanks to an own goal from Kendall Waston and the annotation of Eduardo Vargas; while on the return, despite the early goal of Brek Shea, Gignac and Damian Alvarez They sealed the Mexican team's ticket to the final.
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The most recent confrontation was last summer in the match corresponding to the round of 32 of the Leagues Cup 2023when the Auriazules entered the BC Place and after tying 1-1 in regulation time, it was in a penalty shootout when it appeared Nahuel Guzman and the cats ended up advancing to the next round.
In that match, the locals went ahead with a goal from the Ecuadorian Pedro Vitebut a great definition of André-Pierre Gignac It forced the tie to be decided from eleven steps and the cats won at home.
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