00:00two mexican teams for the first time will dispute the final in houston and
00:14so we have a final we didn't we couldn't we couldn't recreate that iconic toluca america
00:22final the first and second place of liga mx monterrey con matias almeida diego rossi
00:29hugo kuipers they were able to claw back a result in penalties toluca on the other hand dominating
00:37what was your highlight of this match day i think for me it had to be monterrey america this was
00:43definitely the best out of the two games leon the other team you know it got a little messy we
00:49saw
00:49some red cards being pulled out and for the most for the most part pachuca definitely dominated that
00:55game but america monterrey this was an amazing match we got four goals overall back to back
01:00both teams really wanted it ultimately going into penalties i thought america was going to take this
01:05one right but monterrey like i said last week had more to prove people have been talking a lot of
01:11smack about them everybody's got an opinion well they came this tournament and they have something
01:15to prove and something to say there you have the stats a very very even game yep in the possession
01:23total shot 17 versus 14 shots on targets 5 to 4 24 touches in opposition box monterrey had the edge
01:32over there and it was all a second half uh affair camilita diego rossi at the 49th ramon juarez y
01:39alan cervantes con un golazo cervantes getting that uh 2-1 but penal para el monterrey we don't see that
01:47often camila we do not see that often where the penal is not for america um but it was a
01:55great
01:55game and now we have a big big final let's look at the bracket it's definitely going to be interesting
02:01interesting to see look at that toluca versus monterrey in houston and for the first third place
02:07leon versus america uh puros campeones de liga mx you know not an mls team to be seen anywhere
02:16where donde m who ml who donde uh i think this this is very important for the debate if mls
02:25is
02:26taking the strides to catch up and surpass liga mx this is clear um where you have we were just
02:33saying
02:33it earlier when you have a tournament where the dead last place in liga mx can defeat comfortably
02:40the top team in the western conference vancouver versus juarez you have to understand that in those
02:47are the those are the the indicators that show you that league i make is a better league is more
02:53competitive uh is more consistent and at any given day the worst team can beat the best team
02:59and the proof is in the pocket and definitely i think not only is the proof in the pudding of
03:04leagues
03:04cup but if we highlight players like diego rossi coming um from columbus who was a really really
03:10good team before and you know diego rossi is in my opinion performing way better at monterrey he you
03:17know is connecting more i'm seeing a lot of chemistry with the forwards and that's why you know they're
03:22performing so well especially in leagues cup so i think more and more we're gonna see more mls players
03:27start to go over to liga mx and you know a lot of pros not only keep the liga mx
03:32have deep pockets like
03:34we know but i think you know just seeing more of a back and forth between the two leagues two
03:38leagues
03:39it's going to make both of these leagues equally grow we saw it like you mentioned diego rossi one
03:44of the top forwards in in mls going to monterrey the same team being able to acquire the best
03:52offensive player for chicago that is third place in the eastern conference right now so not a bad team
03:58hugo kuiper is coming to monterrey not having the immediate impact that diego rossi is having
04:03but still monterrey uh always bringing top players not too long ago they had sergio ramos that that
04:09were able to have a a fairy tale story with the club world cup uh and on the other side
04:15we have
04:16to look at the look at a consistent team that is seeing in alex vega a resurgence of his magic
04:22a
04:23resurgence of his level uh y el turco mohamed is a coach that knows how to win these games
04:28now monterrey has a very very good coach matias almeida i want to talk about matias almeida because
04:34they have so much pressure around him coming into this game with many bad results in liga mx and now
04:41he is about to deliver a tournament trophy a few weeks into his tenure maybe just a couple of months
04:49camila i'm gonna go monterrey just because i feel like they need it more they want it more but the
04:54hardest thing is going to be for them so luka is so good in the box they had 19 shots
05:00against leon
05:00and i think that's just going to be hard for monterrey's defense to really crack down and defend
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