{"id":18810,"date":"2024-02-14T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=18810"},"modified":"2024-02-14T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T12:31:25","slug":"champions-cup-vancouver-1-1-tigres-round-one-concachampions-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=18810","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup | Vancouver 1-1 Tigres | Round One ConcaChampions 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljhvHqo0yh4?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The highlights of the Vancouver vs Tigres matchup are in! \u25b6\ufe0f \ud83d\udcf9<\/p>\n<p>Andre-Pierre Gignac fired in a late free kick to earn Mexican side Tigres a 1-1 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps in the first leg of their 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup Round One series on Wednesday night at Starlight Stadium in Langford, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver looked set to secure a clean sheet victory, but Gignac\u2019s pedigree rose to the surface and the legendary French striker scored his 17th career Champions Cup goal to give Tigres a crucial away goal.<\/p>\n<p>Early on, the Whitecaps lost a couple balls in their own half to give Tigres some good cracks at goal, but Vancouver GK Yohei Takaoka was up to the task and made a couple stretch saves to keep it scoreless.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver started growing into the game and broke the deadlock in the 32\u2019 with a great team goal ending with Brian White spinning a header to Damir Kreilach, who finished a right-footed volley for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The home side carried a one-goal lead into halftime thanks to Takaoka, who was called on again to make a diving save, this time on an Ozziel Herrera volley.<\/p>\n<p>Emotions continued to run high as the second half wore on at a frenetic pace, with both teams knowing that a goal either way would go a long way toward swinging the series more in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>Tigres made one final surge in the waning moments in hopes of an equalizer and a key away goal, and it arrived in the 88\u2019 off the boot of Gignac, who fired in a free kick into the top right corner to earn Tigres the 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>#concachampions  #championscup #vancouver #tigres #roundone #highlights<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to our channel, and turn on notifications: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/concacaf\/view_as=subscriber?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcbb You can also visit our website and enjoy our exclusive content: https:\/\/www.concacaf.com\/ <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf1 Follow us on our social networks:<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thechampions\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/thechampions<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thechampions<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljhvHqo0yh4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlights of the Vancouver vs Tigres matchup are in! \u25b6\ufe0f \ud83d\udcf9 Andre-Pierre Gignac fired in a late free kick to earn Mexican side Tigres a 1-1 draw with the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}