{"id":24038,"date":"2024-02-23T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=24038"},"modified":"2024-02-23T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:02:38","slug":"champions-cup-america-2-0-real-esteli-round-one-concachampions-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=24038","title":{"rendered":"Champions Cup | Am\u00e9rica 2-0 Real Estel\u00ed | Round One ConcaChampions 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eVeVWKOzis4?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Relive the highlights of the match between Am\u00e9rica and Real Estel\u00ed \ud83d\udc40\u25b6\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Club America punched their ticket to the next round of the 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup thanks to a 2-0 victory against Real Esteli of Nicaragua in the second leg of their Round One series on Wednesday night at the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>The result earned the Liga MX giants a 3-2 win on aggregate and a date in the Round of 16 with long-time domestic rivals Chivas.<\/p>\n<p>It was all Club America from the very start, and after several near-misses, Jonathan Rodriguez gave Las Aguilas a 1-0 lead in the 18\u2019 when he fired a powerful right-footed shot into net.<\/p>\n<p>Club America kept their foot on the gas and nearly made it two in the 34\u2019 when a Brian Rodriguez shot glanced off the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Real Esteli tried to gain some sort of foothold in the match, but it proved to be too tall a task and Club America earned themselves a 2-0 lead in the 54\u2019 when a deep cross from Brian Rodriguez deflected off a Real Esteli defender and right to Alejandro Zendejas, who promptly scored.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Club America owning a two-goal advantage in the match, Real Esteli were still just a goal away from forcing a tie-on aggregate as play drifted into the final half-hour, but creating chances was difficult for the visiting Nicaraguans.<\/p>\n<p>Close calls from Zendejas and Alvaro Fidalgo had Club America fans ready to celebrate a third score, but in the end the goals from Jonathan Rodriguez and Zendejas proved to be sufficient, giving the seven-time Concacaf champions the series win<\/p>\n<p>#concachampions  #concacaf #championscup #highlights #am\u00e9rica #realestel\u00ed<\/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=eVeVWKOzis4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relive the highlights of the match between Am\u00e9rica and Real Estel\u00ed \ud83d\udc40\u25b6\ufe0f Club America punched their ticket to the next round of the 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup thanks to a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":24039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24038","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\/24038","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=24038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}