Pachuca snatch Mexican title
Relegated Zurich win Swiss Cup
MEXICO CITY, May 30, (Agencies): Pachuca stunned Monterrey with a lastgasp equaliser as they drew the second leg of the Clausura championship final 1-1 to win their sixth Mexican league title 2-1 on aggregate.
Midfielder Victor Guzman scored three minutes into added time on Sunday after Colombian Dorlan Pabon had put the home side ahead in the 39th.
Pachuca played the last 16 minutes with 10 men after Colombian defender Aquivaldo Mosquera was sent off for bringing down a goalbound Pabon, a slightly earlier retirement from football than the 34-year-old had anticipated.
“I think it’s time to take other paths ... I want my family to choose where we go after 16 years of my career,” said
Senegalese midfielder Sangone Sarr scored the only goal of the match in the 41st minute.
It was the third time a relegated side had won the Cup after Wil in 2004 and Lucerne in 1992.
Modest provincial club Plaza Colonia stunned a crowd of 30,000 at Penarol’s Campeon del Siglo stadium in Montevideo on Sunday with a 2-1 victory over the hosts to claim Uruguay’s Clausura championship, their first league title, with a match to spare.
The teams will meet again on June 14 for the overall championship. Penarol, who have won a record 38 titles and five South American Libertadores Cups, sealed the Apertura championship in the first half of the season.
Colonia opened the scoring in the second minute through midfielder Nicolas Milesi with their first attack.
Lanus overwhelmed San Lorenzo 4-0 in the Argentine championship final on Sunday to win their second league title.
The victory at the River Plate stadium was a deserved finish for Lanus, who were the best team in the competition.
Lanus, a modest club from the southern suburbs of the capital who won their first title in 2007, had reached the final as runaway winners of Group B, finishing six points clear of second-placed Estudiantes after winning 12 of their 16 matches. his mark after being introduced by manager Dunga for his first senior appearance at Denver’ Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Sunday.
The teenager pounced on a loose ball in the area, took one touch to control and then drilled a low finish past Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo — before racing to the Brazil dugout to hug manager Dunga.
Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Shanghai SIPG ended Guangzhou Evergrande’s run of nine straight Chinese Super League victories to cut their lead at the top of the table.
The ex-England manager, who warmly greeted old sparring partner Luiz Felipe Scolari before the game, oversaw a 1-1 draw — Evergrande’s first dropped points since March.
The result means Hebei China Fortune, who beat Chongqing Lifan 3-1, close to within five points, with Jiangsu Suning and SIPG six and seven back respectively.
Evergrande opened the scoring with Brazilian forward Ricardo Goulart’s neat shot in the 63rd minute, but a defensive slip-up let Ivorian winger Jean Evrard Kouassi equalize for SIPG just seven minutes later.