Rayados 1-2 Xoloitzcuintles, LIGA MX Quarterfinals second leg
MONTERREY, Mexico (May 5, 2018) – Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles is in the LIGA MX semifinals. Miller Bolaños and Martin Lucero scored for the visiting team in a 2-1 win against Rayados de Monterrey Saturday in the second leg of the 2018 Clausura quarterfinals.
The Xoloitzcuintles moves on to the semifinals next week after winning the home-and-home series 3-2 in aggregate against the Rayados. Coach Diego Cocca’s team awaits its next opponent based on Sunday’s results.
Both teams played to a 1-1 tie May 2 at Estadio Caliente in the first leg. Jose Rivero scored for Club Tijuana in that match and Dorlan Pabon for Monterrey.
In the second leg, it was Bolaños gave the Xoloitzcuintles a 1-0 lead six minutes into the match. Bolaños fired a shot near the top of the penalty box. It was deflected off a defender Leonel Vangioni and floated over Rayados goalkeeper Hugo Gonzalez, bouncing into the net.
Club Tijuana took a 2-0 lead in the 23rd when Martin Lucero buried a shot into the Monterrey net. Lucero, sprinting behind two defenders, tapped in a Gustavo Bou cross with his right leg. Bou beat Jose Basanta with a slide to win the ball, got up and ran free to send the assist into the six-yard-box.
Pabon cut the lead to 2-1 in the 46th minute when he took a ball and fired it into the right wall of the Gibran Lajud net. Monterrey, the No. 3 seed, came out in the second half looking to be more offensive and pressured Tijuana into its territory. But the Xolos defense and a handful of Lajud saves preserved the win.
FINAL SCORE
MONTERREY 1, XOLOS 2
XOLOS WINS AGGREGATE 3-2
SCORING
0-1/ 6’ Miller Bolaños (TIJ)
0-2 /23’ Martin Lucero (TIJ)
1-2/ 46’ Dorlan Pabon (MON)
LINEUPS:
Club Tijuana- 5. Damian Musto, 6. Juan Carlos Valenzuela, 7. Gustavo Bou, 8. Jose Rivero, 9. Martin Lucero, 12. Pablo Aguilar, 15. Damian Perez, 25. Gibran Lajud, 26. Luis Mendoza, 28. Omar Mendoza, 32. Miller Bolaños, Coach Diego Cocca.
Monterrey: 1. Hugo Gonzalez, 4. Gabriel Sanchez, 8. Dorlan Pabon, 10. Jonathan Urretaviscaya, 11. Leonel Vangioni, 13. Carlos Sanchez, 14. Arturo Gonzalez, 15. Jose Basanta, 18. Aviles Hurtado, 21. Jesus Molina, 33. John Medina. Coach: Antonio Mohamed.
