Cruz Azul vs Tigres | 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup | Semifinal

Welcome to Mexico City as we close in on kickoff in the second leg of the 2025 CacaCap Champions Cup semi-final. The six-time champion Cruz Azul playing host to the 2020 title holders Tigres. Alongside Eric Dabransky, Michael Wattring. So great to have you on board with us here for this matchup here at the Olympic University Stadium. We are underway in an early shot. Whistles wide left and Tigres into action. This ball flares in towards the back post. It's headed across and it's punched in for offside to erase it for the moment. Nicholas Ibanez raced in. A 2022 Golden Boot winner was offside. It's a good charge here. Numbers forward. Ibanez calls. Instead it's a long shot that Mier has to punch over the top. That ball skips away and there's a lot of space for it here. Sepulveda 1v1. Sepulveda laces. Guzman makes the stop. But also their rest defense has to be spot on. Their ability to look at that shot attempt from Faravelli into the chest however of Guzman. Give them a dead ball restart instead of letting the flow of play and them get some of that momentum going forward. It's a foul and it's our first booking of the match as well. It's going to be Aquino. Good ball wide. Good space as well. First time cross in from Sanchez. The header flicks off of the paw of Guzman and over. Delivery wise so you're going to want to see something more decisive from those corners as we see another yellow. Gets bumped off of it however. And there's a foul and it's another booking and it's Cordova that gets this yellow card. Come from that open space. Here is Boguch and he gets this ball swiped away and it is a corner. That was a well-timed tackle from Angulo. Drew Fisher blows the whistle and that's half number one in the books and Eric tight matchup. Good pace to eight of those 14 goals have come in the second half. Cordova laces this ball and it's Mierre smothering. Chops this ball forward in a pocket. Ibanez races. Dina is over to touch it away. Ibanez arcs it around. Here is Sepulveda. Rivero. Rotundi. Rotundi lays it back. Sepulveda directs. Team to win the North American treble. Here's a chance and a save from Guzman denying Rivero. Lays it off. Rivero touches it out top. Was that a handball? No question appeals for it. Instead it's a foul against Cruz Azul. And they are going to look at it. Drew Fisher's going to take another glance. And unfortunately for Flores, he just does not get himself outside of the 18-yard box. And a deep penalty. Sepulveda sizzles. Guzman gets a piece but it scorches the strings. Cruz Azul have the edge and perhaps on the verge of a ninth trip to the final. Sepulveda. Sepulveda laces from long range and it's Guzman backpedaling to keep it away. No first contact this time. Second contact however. Brunetta. Excellent ball in. Touched across. It goes through from Joaquin but the flag up for offside. And it's the second time that offside will into the box this goes. Mier catches and that's the full-time whistle. Cruz Azul are back into the Champions Cup final for the first time since 2014.