Monday, October 28

Carlos Vela's LAFC will face Philadelphia Union in the grand final of the MLS Cup

LAFC en la celebración de la Final de Conferencia.
LAFC in celebration of the Conference Final.

Photo: Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

Gregory Torres

Philadelphia Union will be LAFC’s rival in the Major League Soccer final. The team from Philadelphia beat champion New York City 3-1 and won the spot for so look for the cup that has been in the air since the beginning of the campaign.

This was thanks to his victory, the one that started differently, this because the Uruguayan Santiago Rodríguez, who stood on the pole to that Maxi Morález received the ball in front of the rival goal and hit it powerfully to beat the stretch by André Blake, thus being the first of the night for the New York team at 57′.

However, this did not end here, because at 65′ Philadelphia knew how to react early in the wake of the Citizens. On the first occasion that he capitalized it was in a center that the Argentine 9 of the Union, Julián Carranza did not miss the passivity of the visitors and turned around signed the tie.

Later, after seeing a huge mistake in the lower part of NYCFC, Carranza head opto p or lower the ball to Dániel Gazdag, a Hungarian player who did not think about it and did not forgive without a mark to shoot inside the small area.

Then, with the score 2-1 in their favor, the Union placed the third of the tranquility. Said so much was authored by Cory Burke who started from midfield, and after a hellish run, and with some luck against a rebound, ended up shooting Sean Johnson to place the last of the night .

MLS Cup Final, LAFC against Philadelphia Union

After all this, the panorama was ready to meet the new champion of Major League Soccer. LAFC with the Mexican Carlos Vela as the main figure will face Philadelphia Union in the grand final of the MLS Cup 2022 .

The game will be played this Sunday, November 5 (4: 05 pm, ET, 1: PT) and which will host the Banc Of California Stadium in Los Angeles, home of the Aztec team that beat LA Galaxy and Austin FC.

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