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Mexican squad Cruz Azul unopen retired the Vancouver Whitecaps successful the CONCACAF Champions Cup last successful Mexico City.
Whitecaps had hoped to beryllium archetypal Major League Soccer victor since 2022
The Canadian Press
· Posted: Jun 01, 2025 11:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago
The Vancouver Whitecaps couldn't marque past arsenic the archetypal Canadian squad to triumph the CONCACAF Champions Cup Sunday.
Instead, Ángel Sepúlveda scored doubly and Cruz Azul routed the Whitecaps 5-0 to triumph its seventh CONCACAF title.
Sepúlveda finished with a tournament-best 9 goals. Ignacio Rivero, Lorenzo Faravelli and Mateusz Bogusz besides scored for Cruz Azul, which built a 4-0 pb by halftime.
The Liga MX nine tied crosstown rival Club America for astir titles successful the tournament. It was Cruz Azul's archetypal rubric since 2013-14 erstwhile La Máquina bushed Tijuana.
The Whitecaps were hoping to beryllium the archetypal victor from Major League Soccer since the Seattle Sounders successful 2022.
Cruz Azul had 4 shots connected extremity successful the archetypal fractional and scored connected each of them. La Máquina took vantage of a antiaircraft lapse by the Whitecaps, and Ignacio Rivero coolly finished with his near ft successful the seventh infinitesimal successful beforehand of cheering location fans astatine Estadio Olímpico Universitario.
Faravelli's extremity came aft a akin antiaircraft lapse, struck from region and went into the nett aft hitting the post.
After Sepúlveda's sliding extremity successful the 37th, Bogusz added a extremity successful the 45th conscionable earlier the teams went into the break.
Sepúlveda added different extremity connected a header successful the 50th.
It was Cruz Azul goalkeeper Kevin Mier's 4th cleanable expanse of the tournament. The Whitecaps had nary shots connected extremity during the match.
Vancouver was without Sebastian Berhalter due to the fact that of yellowish paper accumulation. He scored successful some legs of the semifinal against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami.
The Whitecaps had hoped that skipper Ryan Gauld would instrumentality from a genu wounded successful clip for the game, but helium was not available.
Cruz Azul precocious with a two-legged triumph implicit UANL Tigres.
It was the archetypal gathering betwixt the Whitecaps and Cruz Azul.
Our 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup tally comes to an end.<br><br>Thank you to our travelling supporters and everyone backmost location who stood with america each measurement of the mode - your enactment means everything.<br><br>We’re arrogant of however acold this radical has come. Now, we regroup and crook our absorption to MLS… <a href="https://t.co/lPlv3Btjmx">pic.twitter.com/lPlv3Btjmx</a>
—@WhitecapsFC
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