![]() ![]() The Mexicans still needed two to avoid elimination and humiliation. ![]() The game headed into added time, score still the same. ![]() Santos Laguna fans at a recent Liga-MX game the sights visiting Montrealers can expect to see following their favourites down Mexico way.Īnd when the same Santos Laguna player made the second-leg score 3-2 with 15 minutes left, it still seemed a tall order for the Mexicans, even with visible signs suggesting the Montreal players were flagging.īut the white-shirted Montrealers dug deep. The Mexicans still needed three to win, and that was only if Montreal didn’t score again! Earlier Roberto Brown and Eduardo Sebrango with his third goal of the tie, had established a 2-1 for the Impact on 38 mins. There still wasn’t much concern when Matias Vuoso levelled for Santos on the night. What happened next was the greatest collapse I have ever seen on a football field as the Impact, out of season, simply ran out of steam. Champions League semi-final was virgin land for any Canadian club.īut despite taking the lead twice in Mexico and extending their advantage to three by half time and the advantage of away goals, things didn’t go according to plan. They would head to Torreon in northern Mexico for the return just over a week later, two goals to the good and slight favourites to progress. The Montrealers were a long-shot, a heavy underdog, but two goals from Cuban international striker Eduardo Sebrango elevated them into previously unknown territory. Over 55,000 piled in to Stade Olympique on 25 February 2009 to witness Montreal Impact of the USL take on and defeat Santos Laguna of Liga-MX. CONCACAF Champions League quarter-finals, 2009 - For Montreal fans the first-leg was an epic for all the right reasons, the second an epic for all the wrong ones. ![]()
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