Guillaume Lawyer
PHOTO: Ulises Naranjo | mexsport
Because some franchises are recent in American football or also because cougars does not boast of many actions in the Concacaf Champions League, the auriazul squad has few clashes against teams from the MLS and their last duel Concachampions 2022 contra Seattle Sounders will be unheard of.
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those of the scree they did not play against seattle, the two teams will therefore measure their forces for the first time and it will be in a memorable setting, due to the dispute over the title of the concacaf and the ticket for the next one Club World Cup.
Of the 28 teams that make up the current Major League Soccer, the National Autonomous University of Mexico Club He has barely faced seven teams, whether in friendlies, playoffs Concachampions, League Cup or Super League.
In history against American teams, cougars He has six wins, four losses and three draws.
In the Conca champions 2005, just in this edition where the felines reached the final and lost it against Saprissa, They met in the semi-finals at DC United. on the path of Washington they drew 1-1 and in the rematch in UC the Mexican team beat 5-0.
Later in the 2008 Concacaf Champions LeaguePumas collided with the Houston Dynamo in the group stage and at the University Olympic they staged an entertaining 4-4 draw, then on Texas soil the auriazules won 3-1.
Also in Concachampions, but in the 2011-2012 edition, those of Pedregal were measured at dallas there Toronto. Against the Canadians they signed a victory in CU (4-0) and a draw in Toronto (1-1), while against dallas they fell in the Mexican capital by 0-1 and won on American soil by 0-2.
The rival of MLS who faced more chances cougars are New Revolution in England. The first occasion came in the 2010 Super League, where the North Americans won 1-0 and barely made it to the current quarter-final. Concachampions with the victory of the students of Bruce Arena at home by 3-0 and in CPU of the Andres Lillini they won by the same scoreline to force penalties, where the Mexican club won 4-3.
In this same 2010 Super League, the University club also fell in the group round against chicago fire by 1-0. The film of the City of the Winds was then directed by the Mexican Carlos de los Cobos.
Last year cougars faces New York City in the quarter-finals of League Cup and the Mexico City team won on penalties 3-2 after parity at one goal in regulation time.
Thus the history of the auriazul team against the clubs of MLS, against which he has a positive record, but, without a doubt, the most important clash he will play cougars against an American rival will be this final of CONCACAF Champions League against Seattle, where he will first try to take the advantage at the university Olympics and then go to the final duel for the title.
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