{"id":173071,"date":"2026-02-11T06:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:19:07","slug":"san-diego-fc-eliminate-pumas-in-champions-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173071\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego FC eliminate Pumas in Champions Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mission accomplished for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego FC<\/a>, which eliminated Pumas UNAM, 4-2 on aggregate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/concacaf-champions-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a> first round following a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/concacaf-champions-league\/2026\/matches\/pumvssd-02-10-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0 defeat<\/a> at the Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Universitario Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chrome-and-Azul, which dominated the first leg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/concacaf-champions-league\/2026\/matches\/sdvspum-02-03-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-1<\/a> at Snapdragon Stadium, advance to the Round of 16 to face reigning LIGA MX champions Toluca.<\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/vancouver-whitecaps-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Whitecaps FC<\/a> midfielder Pedro Vite scored the lone goal two minutes into the second half, sneaking a free kick inside the far post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while the hosts pressed for more goals, San Diego goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/pablo-sisniega\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Sisniega<\/a> was up for the challenge, making eight clutch saves to secure San Diego&#8217;s advancement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s mission accomplished for San Diego FC, which eliminated Pumas UNAM, 4-2 on aggregate in the Concacaf Champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[75393,11413,82773,74,1254,76,75,6532],"class_list":{"0":"post-173071","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-pumvssd-02-10-2026","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-fc","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news","15":"tag-sendtonews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173071","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=173071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}