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Live updates of Campeones Cup 2024

Vaseline September 26, 2024

For the second time in two years, Liga MX’s Club America will face the Crew at Lower.com Field. This time, there’s a trophy on the line.

The Crew and Club America will battle it out tonight for the Campeones Cup, a one-match title fight between last season’s MLS Cup champions and the Liga MX champions. Last year, when the two clubs met in Columbus, it was in the group stage of the Leagues Cup tournament.

With both teams already secured a spot in the knockout stages of the League’s Cup, the Crew and Club America battled it out for the top spot in their groups. Columbus won 4-1 behind two goals from striker Cucho Hernandez, who expects an intense match tonight.

“It’s going to be an interesting final,” he said. “Of course it’s going to be difficult because they have a lot of good players. You play the final differently. … We know this feeling, how to play the final.”

More: Columbus Crew aims for third trophy in one year in Campeones Cup

Follow the live updates of the Campeones Cup match between the Crew and Club America

In the first round of changes, Club America made three changes:

Striker Victor Davila replaces Brian Rodriguez
Striker Diego Valdes replaces Alejandro Zendejas
Striker Rodrigo Aguirre replaces Henry Martin

From the top of the Club America penalty area, striker Christian Ramirez launched a shot attempt. Goalkeeper Luis Malagon cleared Ramirez’s shot from a save.

The Crew managed to hold Club America to a clean sheet in the first half, despite giving their opponent the chance to fire shots in the first half:

Recordings: Crew (3), Club America (6)
Shots on target: Crew (1), Club America (2)
Errors: Crew (9), Club America (4)

After a long pass from striker Cucho Hernandez, striker Diego Rossi received the ball in front of the Club America goal and was able to make an attempt at a header. Rossi’s shot went high, to the right, but goalkeeper Luis Malagon cleared the ball away from the goal.

The Crew were awarded a corner when it was decided that Club American was the last to touch the ball after a shot attempt by midfielder Max Arfsten. Forward Diego Rossi took the corner for Columbus and striker Cucho Hernandez was able to find the ball in the air for a header attempt.

Hernandez headed the ball towards the Club America goal, but was too powerful and it went a few inches over the bar.

Midfielder Sean Zawadzki was shown a yellow card for a foul on Club America’s forward Alejandro Zendejas. Zawadzki committed the yellow card violation while attempting to make a tackle.

The team’s goalkeeper Patrick Schulte easily saved his first goal of the match against Club America, saving an attempted shot from Club America forward Brian Rodriguez that was headed straight for Schulte in the middle of the goal.

After nearly two minutes of medical attention following the Crew corner kick, midfielder Sean Zawadzki was able to return to the game for Columbus. While Zawadzki was being treated for an apparent abdominal injury, the Crew were down one player.

On the first corner kick of the Campeones Cup, Crew forward Diego Rossi executed the attempt, sending the ball into the Club America penalty area. After the kick was cleared from the penalty area by Club America, Crew midfielder Sean Zawadzki went to the ground, holding his stomach and requiring medical attention.

These are the starting lineups for Club America vs Columbus:

GK: Luis Malagon
DF: Nestor Araujo
DF: Cristian Borja
DF: Ramon Juarez
MF: Cristian Calderón
MF: Jonathan Dos Santos
MF: Dagoberto Espinoza
MF: Alvaro Fidalgo
FW: Henry Martin
FW: Brian Rodriguez
FW: Alejandro Zendejas

These are the 11 players starting for Columbus vs Club America:

GK: Patrick Schulte
DF: Malte Amundsen
DF: Rudy Camacho
DF: Steven Moreira
MF: Max Arfsten
MF: Mo Persian
MF: Darlington Nagbe
MF: Sean Zawadzki
FW: Cucho Hernandez
FW: Christian Ramirez
Front page: Diego Rossi

Since its foundation in 2018, five Campeones Cups have been played:

2018: Tigres defeated Toronto FC (3-1)
2019: Atlanta United defeated Club America (3-2)
2021: Columbus Crew defeated CF Cruz Azul (2-0)
2022: New York City FC defeated Atlas FC (2-0)
2023: Tigres defeated Los Angeles FC (4-2, PKs)

The English-language radio broadcast of The Crew vs. Club America Campeones Cup can be heard on Alt 105.7 FM and is available on the iHeartRadio app. Columbus’ resident broadcaster Chris Doran will be in attendance.

The Spanish radio broadcast can be found on La Grande 102.5 FM and the La Grande radio app, with Juan Valladares discussing the program live.

The Crew-Club America Campeones Cup match is available on Apple TV+ with a required MLS Season Pass subscription. Here are the teams broadcasting tonight:

English Broadcast: Jake Zivin (play-by-play), Taylor Twellman (analyst)
Spanish broadcast: Sammy Sadnovik (play-by-play), Diego Valeri (analyst)

Start: 7:30pm, Wednesday, September 25 at Lower.com Field.

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