Tag: CONCACAF Champions League

A goalkeeper’s shame in three parts

Facing the LA Galaxy in the CONCACAF Champions League, Juan Jose Paredes experienced a regrettable moment that just kept getting worse.

The goalkeeper for Guatemalan club Comunicaciones condemned himself to this hellacious domino effect by getting his foot stuck in the turf just before making contact with the ball, causing it to roll towards Galaxy forward Alan Gordon. Paredes attempted to chase down his mistake, but this only gave Gordon the opportunity to nutmeg him and jump over the desperate keeper on the way to finally ending this horror by scoring on the empty net.

That gave LA their second goal in the first 10 minutes of the match. Gordon then scored again in the 54th minute to make it a 3-0 lead, but Paredes had mentally disassociated from his body at that point.

DTotD: Costa Rican player gets fouled, then kicked in the face by Club America

Costa Rican side Herediano beat Club America 3-0 in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League semifinal, prompting the losing side to take out their frustration on one player specifically.

Herediano’s Cristhian Lagos took the ball off of Michael Arroyo, who retaliated by planting his studs in Lagos’ ankle. This sent the Costa Rican to the ground and when Arroyo’s teammate went to kick the ball away, he connected with Lagos’ face instead.

Arroyo was shown a red card for the initial challenge, but Paolo Goltz went unpunished for the face kick. Lagos was substituted in the 78th minute and his replacement, Jonathan Hansen, went on to score Herediano’s third goal four minutes later.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.