Well, we played a half of good soccer in the first leg. Tonight we meet the Tuzos in the same in the rarified air of Pachuca. Pachuca is undefeated at home, and a US club has never beaten -- or even tied, for that matter -- a Mexican club in Mexico. Can Dynamo start a new trend?
In the first leg vs Puntarenas in Costa Rica, we played ugly soccer and went down a manageable 1-0 (which we overcame in the 2nd leg). I love good soccer, and I particularly hate when US teams play prosaic soccer -- but I found the Puntarenas away game to be fascinating stuff in a hostile environment. We now have a 2-0 advantage vs the Tuzos. I'm fine with an ugly game at Pachuca that has a good result. The altitude will negate our fitness and our usual aggressive play, but if we can eke out a tie, we'll have moved on to the next round and done what no other US club has done before; and these two accomplishments would be good enough for me. Go 'Mo.
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