Vancouver Whitecaps He advanced Wednesday, for the first time, to the final of the Champions Cup of Concacaf after winning 3-1 as a visitor to Inter Miami in the definition of the series. The team led by Danish Jesper Sørensen reached the game for the title with a 5-1 global score after winning 2-0 in the first leg.
“It is a large group, from the first game we have demonstrated it so far and that is what we deserve. We are going to do it, we have the opportunity (to win the title) and there we will be,” the Vancouver WhiteCaps midfielder, the Englishman Sebastian Berhalter told the official channel.
In the match played at the Chase stadium of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Inter Miami took advantage at nine minutes with a powerful left -footed shot by the Spanish Jordi Alba within the area after receiving pass from the Uruguayan Luis Suarez. Vancouver Whitecaps was close to drawing at 13 minutes with a shot by Italian Emmanuel Sabbi who hit the left post.
Sergio Busquets, in a game of the game against Vancouver
The Canadian club tied at 51 minutes when the American Brian White finished off the goal of Berhalter. Two minutes later, the visiting team went around the scoreboard with a shot by Ecuadorian Pedro Vite that entered through the left angle after a detour from Jordi Alba.
Luis Suárez, for the soils
Vancouver Whitecaps's third goal fell 71 minutes with a powerful shot by Berhalter that was diverted by Argentine defender Gonzalo Luján and left without the opportunity to react to goalkeeper Óscar Ustari. Inter Miami was close to scoring the second goal at 74 minutes with a powerful shot by the Argentine Tadeo Allende who hit the right post. In the final minutes, the Argentine Lionel Messi was close to scoring with a shot that passed to the right post.
Technical file
1 – Inter Miami: Óscar Ustari; Marcelo Weigandt, Maximiliano Falcón (Gonzalo Luján, m. 56), Noah Allen (David Martínez, m. 77), Jordi Alba; Sergio Busquets, Federico Redondo (Benjamin Cremaschi, m. 56); Lionel Messi, Telasco Segovia (Allen Obando, m. 63), Tadeo Allende (Yannick Bright, m. 77); Luis Suárez.
Coach: Javier Mascherano
3 – Vancouver Whitecaps: Yohei Takaoka; Édier Ocampo, Tristan Blackmon (Belal Halboununo, M. 83), Ranko Veselinovic, tate Johnson (Sam Adakugbe, M. 46); Sebastian Berhalter, Andrés Cubas (JC Ando, M. 72), Pedro Vite; Emmanuel Sabbi (Jayen Nelson, M. 72), Brian White (Daniel Ríos, M. 56) y Ali Ahmed.
Entrenador: Jesper Sørensen.
Goals: 1-0, Alba (m. 9); 1-1, White (m. 51); 1-2, Vite (m. 53); 1-3, Berhalter (m. 71)
Arbitrator: Saíd Martínez (Honduras). He admonished Falcón, Redondo and Segovia at Inter Miami and Johnson, Berhalter and Cubas in the Vancouver Whitecaps
Incidents: match corresponding to the return of the semifinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup played at the Chase Stadium of Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA).
“We were not blunt or accurate in defense, we were already coming with an adverse score, his goal killed us and there was practically closed the game. This is part of football and hopefully in the future we can return to the competition and win it,” Sergio Busquets said to the official transmission.
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