{"id":37367,"date":"2021-09-23T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/?p=37367"},"modified":"2021-09-23T00:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T04:05:20","slug":"club-leon-sounders-leagues-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2021\/09\/23\/club-leon-sounders-leagues-cup-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Le\u00f3n tops Seattle Sounders, 3-2, for Leagues Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leagues Cup has its winner. In 2019, the inaugural Leagues Cup featured two Liga MX teams in the final. This year \u2014 after halting the tournament last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 the Seattle Sounders clinched a spot in the final. They did it after defeating Santos Laguna in the semifinals. However, they could not top Club Le\u00f3n \u2014 who currently sit in fifth place in Liga MX.<\/p>\n<p>The match got off to a chippy, gritty start, as most do between MLS and Liga MX teams. A total of four yellow cards was given out in the first half, three for the Sounders. It only took 10 minutes for Xavier Arreaga to see yellow, although the call was certainly questionable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CRISTIAN ROLDAN YOU BEAUTY<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoundersFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SoundersFC<\/a> have the opener in the Leagues Cup final! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0zTvV6XXmA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/0zTvV6XXmA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/1440877523856920576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jo\u00e3o Paulo wasn&#8217;t far behind, receiving a yellow card in the 15th minute. Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz capped off the yellow card party with a card in the 27th minute after a foul on Andr\u00e9s Mosquera, as Taylor Twellman called it the &#8220;yellowest&#8221; of the yellow cards.<\/p>\n<p>After a lackluster first half from Seattle, the Sounders came out swinging in the second half. In the 47th minute, Cristian Roldan scored off a Jimmy Medranda assist, sending the ball to the top of the net on a one-touch hit inside the box. However, the lead didn&#8217;t last too long for the Sounders, as \u00c1ngel Mena tapped in, wide open, his shot past Stefan Frei.<\/p>\n<p>The game-winning goal came from Mena, the Ecuadorian international, after slotting home a penalty past Frei. The penalty was given up by Shane O&#8217;Neill, who fouled Mena with a poorly-timed sliding tackle.<\/p>\n<p>Will Bruin scored a consolation goal for Seattle in the waning minutes, but left it at that: consolation. A final attempt from the Sounders offense was cleared away by Club Le\u00f3n, who saw more time added on to the extra four minutes due to some time on the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never say never&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoundersFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SoundersFC<\/a> get one back in stoppage time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ICQaB78ShI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ICQaB78ShI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Major League Soccer (@MLS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/1440888630160072706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s next for the Sounders?<\/h2>\n<p>Seattle now eyes league action against Sporting Kansas City, which will take place on Sunday at 7 p.m. EST. Meanwhile, Club Le\u00f3n will head back to Mexico with another trophy in a Concacaf competition in yet another victory over an MLS team. Club Le\u00f3n faces Atlas on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"b-ztHFdrSARuG-A6psrhTg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1341986177\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'b-ztHFdrSARuG-A6psrhTg',sig:'QW1aPLQOmb8eOLHwtRI8o6oKLOtQCkrB1JGxhQRngkU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1341986177',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Sounders dropped their Leagues Cup final match in Las Vegas to Liga M side Club Le\u00f3n, who celebrated a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2497,"featured_media":37376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3372,2,22],"tags":[4186,3424,1709,1863,469],"class_list":["post-37367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concacaf","category-featured","category-sounders","tag-angel-mena","tag-club-leon","tag-cristian-roldan","tag-sounders","tag-stefan-frei"],"modified_by":"Rachael Kriger, Senior Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}