<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>CONCACAF Champions Cup
<SPAN class=art-title2>US, Mexicans set up semi showdowns</SPAN> <TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=5 width=150 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR class=paddingall><TD vAlign=top> <SPAN class=textblack11px_normal>Houston Dynamo's Scottish goal hero Paul Dalglish celebrates with goalkeeper Wells at end of their 2-0 CONCACAF quarter-final victory over Puntarenas of Costa Rica.
</SPAN><SPAN class=textblack11px_bold>(REUTERS)</SPAN> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">(FIFA.com)</SPAN> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">02 Mar 2007</SPAN>
<SPAN class=art-text>The 2007 CONCACAF Champions Cup is destined for either the United States or Mexico after the semi-final line-up was completed byDC United, Chivas, Houston Dynamoand Pachuca.
Chivas repelled a brave fight from Trinidadian minnows W Connection FC and Pachuca edged out Guatemala's Deportivo Marquense on Wednesday night while the USA's two representatives, DC United and Houston Dynamo, beat Olimpia of Honduras and Puntarenas of Costa Rica respectively.
For the third year on the trot, Mexico's two representatives booked passage to the semi-final stage of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. Afterlosing out ignominiously in their first quarter-final leg to minnows W Connection FC, Mexican champions Chivas of Guadalajara stormed back to overturn the deficit on home soil in the return leg on 28 February.
Although the Trinidadian outfit gave good account of themselves again at the Jalisco Stadium, the Mexicans pulled off a 3-0 win thanks to a brace from Sergio Santana and another goal from Adolfo 'Bofo' Bautista. Unable to get themselves on the scoresheet, the Caribbean minnows came crashing back down to earth on the wrong side of a 4-2 aggregate loss.
Pachuca, last year's Copa Nissan Sudamerica winner and the other Mexican outfit in the Champions Cup, had to struggle in their second-leg match with Guatemala's Deportivo Marquense on Wednesday night.However, a lone goal on the road from Luis Angel Landin gave the Mexicans a 1-0 win on the night and a 3-0 aggregate victory in the series.
<TABLE class=textblack11px_normal id=IMGTAB height=150 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width=150 align=left summary="" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR id=TRCAP><TD vAlign=bottom align=left><SPAN class=textblack11px_normal>Christian Gomez was a key player in the quarter-final success of DC United, who will now face CD Guadalajara in the semis.</SPAN></TD></TR><TR id=TRAUTHOR><TD align=left><SPAN class=textblack11px_bold>Tony Quinn/MLS/WireImage.com</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>USA all the way
The two American representatives put in some fine performances as well to book their places in the semi-finals. DC United, CONCACAF Champions Cup winners back in 1998, put paid to Honduran giants Olimpia 3-2 at RFK stadium on 1 March to build on their 4-1 first-leg win and ease through to the last four one the end of a bloated 7-3 aggregate win.
A brace from Luciano Emilio and a penalty from Christian Gomez was enough to see United - one of only two MLS sides to have won a CONCACAF Champions Cup -through to a semi-final d
<SPAN class=art-title2>US, Mexicans set up semi showdowns</SPAN> <TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=5 width=150 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR class=paddingall><TD vAlign=top> <SPAN class=textblack11px_normal>Houston Dynamo's Scottish goal hero Paul Dalglish celebrates with goalkeeper Wells at end of their 2-0 CONCACAF quarter-final victory over Puntarenas of Costa Rica.
</SPAN><SPAN class=textblack11px_bold>(REUTERS)</SPAN> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">(FIFA.com)</SPAN> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">02 Mar 2007</SPAN>
<SPAN class=art-text>The 2007 CONCACAF Champions Cup is destined for either the United States or Mexico after the semi-final line-up was completed byDC United, Chivas, Houston Dynamoand Pachuca.
Chivas repelled a brave fight from Trinidadian minnows W Connection FC and Pachuca edged out Guatemala's Deportivo Marquense on Wednesday night while the USA's two representatives, DC United and Houston Dynamo, beat Olimpia of Honduras and Puntarenas of Costa Rica respectively.
For the third year on the trot, Mexico's two representatives booked passage to the semi-final stage of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. Afterlosing out ignominiously in their first quarter-final leg to minnows W Connection FC, Mexican champions Chivas of Guadalajara stormed back to overturn the deficit on home soil in the return leg on 28 February.
Although the Trinidadian outfit gave good account of themselves again at the Jalisco Stadium, the Mexicans pulled off a 3-0 win thanks to a brace from Sergio Santana and another goal from Adolfo 'Bofo' Bautista. Unable to get themselves on the scoresheet, the Caribbean minnows came crashing back down to earth on the wrong side of a 4-2 aggregate loss.
Pachuca, last year's Copa Nissan Sudamerica winner and the other Mexican outfit in the Champions Cup, had to struggle in their second-leg match with Guatemala's Deportivo Marquense on Wednesday night.However, a lone goal on the road from Luis Angel Landin gave the Mexicans a 1-0 win on the night and a 3-0 aggregate victory in the series.
<TABLE class=textblack11px_normal id=IMGTAB height=150 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width=150 align=left summary="" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR id=TRCAP><TD vAlign=bottom align=left><SPAN class=textblack11px_normal>Christian Gomez was a key player in the quarter-final success of DC United, who will now face CD Guadalajara in the semis.</SPAN></TD></TR><TR id=TRAUTHOR><TD align=left><SPAN class=textblack11px_bold>Tony Quinn/MLS/WireImage.com</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>USA all the way
The two American representatives put in some fine performances as well to book their places in the semi-finals. DC United, CONCACAF Champions Cup winners back in 1998, put paid to Honduran giants Olimpia 3-2 at RFK stadium on 1 March to build on their 4-1 first-leg win and ease through to the last four one the end of a bloated 7-3 aggregate win.
A brace from Luciano Emilio and a penalty from Christian Gomez was enough to see United - one of only two MLS sides to have won a CONCACAF Champions Cup -through to a semi-final d
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