{"id":591707,"date":"2026-04-09T04:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591707\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:03:08","slug":"tigres-beat-sounders-in-first-leg-of-concacaf-champions-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591707\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigres beat Sounders in first leg of Concacaf Champions Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY \u2014 Midfielder Ozziel Herrera scored a first-half goal and the\u00a0UANL Tigres\u00a0defeated the\u00a0Seattle Sounders\u00a02-0 on Thursday in the first leg of their\u00a0Concacar Champions Cup\u00a0quarterfinal series.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera put the home side ahead in the 51st minute before center back Jackson Ragen scored an own goal in the 76th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg will be played next Wednesday in Seattle. The winner will face either Nashville or Club America in one of the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Tigres advanced after staging a comeback victory, winning 5-4 on aggregate against FC Cincinnati in the Round of 16. The Sounders progressed to the quarterfinals with a 5-1 aggregate victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, the runner-up in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Tigres could have taken the lead toward the end of the first half, but former Atletico Madrid player Angel Correa missed a penalty, sending it over the crossbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY \u2014 Midfielder Ozziel Herrera scored a first-half goal and the\u00a0UANL Tigres\u00a0defeated the\u00a0Seattle Sounders\u00a02-0 on Thursday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-591707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}