2023 Champions Cup Final: Tigres vs. LAFC - Highlights, Score, and Penalties

2023-09-28 04:41:15

The Champions Cup It emerged in 2018 to crown the best team among the MLS and Liga MX monarchs. Since then, no team had won the two-time championship… until this Wednesday, when Tigres (the first to lift the trophy that year), was crowned in California.

The BMO Stadium was the stage where LAFC sought revenge, as in 2020 the Felines They won the Concachampions final. In addition, they had just lost the 2023 edition to another Mexican: León. With a match that was far from what could be expected between these two clubs, after 90 minutes – and one expulsion for each side – they went to penalties.

In this instance, the experience of Nahuel Guzmán came to light. The Argentine goalkeeper emerged as a figure, blocking two shots in the shootout, which were enough for his team to win 4-2 and register his name, for the second time in history, as the best of the champions between both leagues.

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— Club Tigres ???? (@TigresOficial) September 28, 2023

How was the Tigres vs. LAFC? Final score

Equipment 1T 2T Final Tigers 0 0 0 (4) LAFC 0 0 0 (2)

Summary and penalties of Tigres vs. LAFC

Penalty shootout

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Goal from Angulo! Tigres ends up celebrating on the LAFC field and is crowned, once again, champion.

Guzmán covers it up. The Tigres goalkeeper does his thing again.

Penalty for Tigres. Cold blood from Pizarro, who puts it down, to the goalkeeper’s right.

LAFC Penalty. Goal from Illie Sánchez to tie.

Penalty for Tigres. Ibáñez scores, with a strong shot.

LAFC Penalty. Guzmán covers it up. Tillman throws him in the middle and the Argentine stops him with his legs.

Penalty for Tigres. Goal from Gignac and the shootout is tied.

LAFC Penalty. Bouanga hits his shot.

Penalty shootout begins. The Californian team starts kicking.

Altercation on the benches. At the end of the match, there was a clash between both teams that ended with the expulsion of some assistants from both coaching staffs.

Minutes 90+6. The referee signals the end of the game and there will be penalties.

Minutes 90+5. Change at LAFC. Goalkeeper Crepeau comes out and MACArthy enters.

Minutes 90+3. Corner kick for Tigres who insists on finding the winning goal.

Minute 90. The referee adds seven units.

Minute 89. Change in Tigers. Quiñones leaves and Samir enters.

Minute 88. A glimpse in the LAFC area that ends up going one way in the end, after a shot by Gignac that seeks to place Crepeau’s left net.

Minute 85. Free kick taken dangerously by Bouanga, but Guzmán rejects it in the end.

Minute 84. Red card for Carioca.

Minute 82. Change in Tigers. Córdova leaves the court and Ibáñez takes his place.

Minute 77. Ball filtered from Tillman to Bouanga who enters the area, takes off a defender and defines, but the referee invalidates it due to a previous play that was resumed without the consent of the principal.

Minute 76. Changes at LAFC. Vela and Olivera leave and Tillman and Biuk enter.

Minute 75. Vigón and Marcelo Flores take the places of Gorriarán and Lainez

Minute 71. Play rehearsed in a corner kick that ends at the feet of Carioca, outside the area, who shoots at the goal, but the ball ends up in the stands.

Minute 66. Almost Bouanga. Inside the area, he shoots from the right in a cover by Pizarro that passes very close to Guzmán’s right vertical.

Minute 65. Lainez dared with a shot from distance, but Crepeau, despite a detour on the way, controlled with his hands.

Minute 62. Change at LAFC. Bogusz leaves and Palencia enters.

Minute 61. Diego Palacios is cautioned again, and finally receives the red card.

Minute 59. Olivera faces Pizarro, manages to beat him in speed and take a shot that Guzmán, down and with his left hand, repels.

Minute 52. Palacios receives the first yellow card.

Minute 51. Tigres claims a supposed penalty due to a possible handball in the area by Bogusz, but the referee says no.

Minute 49. Hollingshead’s header after a corner goes over Guzmán’s goal.

Minute 45. The ball is rolling again at BMO! The second part begins in Los Angeles

The first half ends!

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— Club Tigres ???? (@TigresOficial) September 28, 2023

Minute 45. End of the first half! Without added time, the referee sends the teams to rest.

Minute 43. Rodríguez’s header after a corner kick, but Crepeau clears it with his hands.

Minute 41. Olivera’s play, who entered the area, took off Pizarro with a cut, but in the definition he lacked positioning of the ball, which ended on the final line.

Minute 36. Match in which Tigres dominates with possession and the passivity of the rival, who waits in his field and waits to counterattack.

Minute 30. New attempt from outside the Córdova area, which goes one way.

Minute 28. Left leg shot from Córdova that deflects off the path and goes to the corner kick.

Minute 24. Bouanga’s left foot shot from outside the area, but without much danger for Nahuel Guzmán.

Minute 17. Dangerous free kick for the home team.

Minute 11. First shot in the game by Luis Quiñones with his left foot, but goalkeeper Crepeau sends it with a slap to the corner kick.

Minute 5. First of change in which both teams are doing a lot of study, evaluating the rival’s order.

Minute 1. Roll the ball at BMO Stadium! Tigres and LAFC begin their race for the cup at stake.

Five minutes from start. The teams take the field

Thus came the Felines to the stadium.

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— Club Tigres ???? (@TigresOficial) September 28, 2023

Tigres won the Concachampions in 2020. Will there be revenge?

A match. One night. A glass.

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— LÁFC (@SomosLAFC) September 27, 2023

The Tigres pennant for the final.

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— Club Tigres ???? (@TigresOficial) September 28, 2023

This is the Tigres lineup

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— Club Tigres ???? (@TigresOficial) September 28, 2023

This is the LAFC lineup

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— Campeones Cup (@CampeonesCup) September 28, 2023

Welcome to BMO Field! The home of LAFC will be the stage where the locals will seek to maintain the hegemony of the MLS in the Campeones Cup over the Liga MX teams.