LAFC lost to Costa Rica club Alajuelense 2-1 in the second game of the CONCACAF Champions League but advances to the quarterfinals on aggregate.
The CCL is played in two-leg home-and-away series with the combined score determining the winner. LAFC won the first leg 3-0 last week in Costa Rica, so Wednesday’s loss wasn’t enough to keep it from moving on since it won 4-2 in the aggregate.
In addition, just one of the four teams remaining on LAFC’s side of the bracket comes from Mexico while as many as three of the four finalists on the other side could come from the Liga MX, depending on Thursday’s results. Avoiding Mexican teams is key to making a deep run in the CCL, the region’s most prestigious club tournament, since the Liga MX claimed 16 consecutive titles before the Seattle Sounders won last year’s competition.
Alajuelense, needing to win big to stay alive, came out strong, taking the lead in the eighth minute on a penalty-kick goal from former Galaxy defender Giancarlo González. The score was set up when a lengthy video review ended with LAFC’s Giorgio Chiellini being called for a handball in the box.
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