At ESPN, we follow up on the two Concacaf players who took part in the quarter-finals of the Champions League
Mexican footballer Jesús Corona then ended his participation in the 2020/21 edition of the Champions League postage were unable to overcome their tie against Chelsea, who qualified for the ‘Orejona’ semi-finals for the first time since the 2013/14 season.
In the second game of the series between Chelsea and Porto contested at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, the Portuguese team had to score at least two goals to get the overall score and the ‘Tecatito‘was the most dangerous man of the dragons in the first part.
The former player of Monterrey was part of the elf holder Sergio Conceição and the Mexican got an excellent opportunity to open the score at minute 11 after an error in exiting Edouard Mendy, who gave the ball to ‘Tecatito‘but his shot was parried by a’ Blues’ defender. At 32 ‘Corona sparkled in the large area with great ball control, although his shot went wide.
The Mexican had an excellent participation in the first 45 minutes, but in the second half the ball passed very little past his feet, so on minute 74 he was replaced and his place was taken by Luis Díaz. ‘Tecatito’ ended the game with two shots, 12 passes from 23 tries, seven duels won and before he left the field he received the yellow card.
For his part, the American Christian Pulisic also started with the Chelsea and unlike Coronathe ‘Blues’ forward went unnoticed in the first half, but in the second half he became one of the most dangerous players in the squad led by Thomas TuchelIn fact, the North American had the clearest scoring chances of his team in his shoes.
Pulisic started the second half with more participation and in the first minutes he made an extraordinary action taking different elements of the postage on the way he had to come by Oliveira, who became the first player to be warned on the American after the tackle.
At minute 54, Christian had an excellent chance of scoring the first goal of the Chelsea on the scoreboard, but his definition was wrong, so the Portuguese squad was saved from the English annotation. At 70 ‘Pulisic tried again, but his shot was rejected and in the last part of the match he had one last chance, but Marchesín avoided the goal.
The American was the main threat to the Chelsea in the second game against him postage Y proof of this is that he was the victim of 11 errors. Pulisic fired three shots and 34 passes, of which he hit 19.
In this way, Pulisic and Chelsea they are waiting for their rival from the Liverpool vs. Real Madrid and postage he will focus on the Primeira Liga and try to overtake Sporting Lisboa, which is the first in the league with a six-point lead.