{"id":163376,"date":"2026-02-04T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:50:11","slug":"san-diego-fc-dominate-pumas-in-concacaf-champions-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/163376\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego FC dominate Pumas in Concacaf Champions Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego FC<\/a> got their 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/concacaf-champions-league\/2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a> campaign off to a blazing start, taking a comprehensive 4-1 victory in Tuesday&#8217;s Leg 1 vs. LIGA MX&#8217;s Pumas UNAM at SnapDragon Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The result puts San Diego in prime position for a Round of 16 berth, which they can clinch in Leg 2 of the series at Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Universitario in Mexico City on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Pumas drew first blood just 11 minutes into the contest thanks to a spectacular bicycle kick from forward Robert Morales, assisted by former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/houston-dynamo-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Dynamo FC<\/a> midfielder Coco Carrasquilla.<\/p>\n<p>But San Diego erupted for four unanswered goals in the second half, starting with a 69th-minute equalizing header from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/manu-duah\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manu Duah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That kickstarted a late barrage, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/david-vazquez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Vazquez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/alex-mighten\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Mighten<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/luca-bombino\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Bombino<\/a> all finding the net before the final whistle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego FC got their 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup campaign off to a blazing start, taking a comprehensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[75393,11413,74,1254,76,75,75392,6532],"class_list":{"0":"post-163376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-concacaf-champions-cup","9":"tag-match-reaction","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-fc","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news","14":"tag-sdvspum-02-03-2026","15":"tag-sendtonews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}