Just a quick note to mention that the second legs of the quarter finals begin today (Sat 5th), and equally importantly that my predictions for the first legs came off pretty well! Tigres were indeed the only home team to win in the first legs, 1-0 over Morelia, for whom Miguel Sabah looked less than match fit. América overturned Pachuca 3-1 at the
Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca having a perfectly good goal disallowed for offside. I was wrong about América's overdependence on Chucho Benitez though, instead
"El Hobbit" Christian Bermudez scored twice. This was far and away his most important contribution to the team since he followed his ex boss at Atlante Miguel Herrera to América at the start of the tournament - up to now he's frequently only been noticed when trudging off to be substituted after another anonimous performance in yellow.
Santos won an exciting game at Jaguares 4-3, with Martinez (2) and Rey scoring for the home team, Daniel Ludueña (2), Oribe Peralta and finally Darwin Quintero getting the goals for the visitors.
Finally, Monterrey were too good for
Los Xolos of Tijuana, who, despite a stirring performance in front of 16,000 beer slinging
bajacalifornianos now need to overturn a 2-1 deficit in the second leg. No away goals rule remember, plus the lower seeded team needs to win the tie outright to prevent the higher seeded team from progressing.
Likely semi final first leg line up: Tiges v Santos, América v Monterrey.
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