Rebecca Henriquez
@RebeHenriquez
The semifinalists of Clausura 2024 were met, with the hot match between Alianza-FAS and Isidro Metapán against Municipal Limeño. The four most outstanding teams of the tournament that will fight for a ticket to the grand final in search of the long-awaited title.
The FAS set the Juan Francisco Barraza stadium on fire, in one of the most intense series of the quarterfinals that ended with the tigrillos classified once again to the semifinals and with the current champion without its ticket to the next phase, so that there will be a new champion.
In the first match that was played at the Óscar Quiteño stadium, FAS took a 3-1 advantage over the feathered team and arrived in San Miguel for the return leg with that advantage, with the hope of reaching the semifinals, a complicated path because Darwin Cerén, with a goal at 19′ and Carlos Salazar with a double at 25 and at 90+9′ tied the aggregate 4-4, a result that forced the match to a penalty shootout, where the locals failed in the attempt.
Carlos Salazar became the piece that failed the feathered team when he scored the first penalty, while the tigrillos took the shots from the penalty spot with better judgment and advanced to the semifinals where they will face Alianza.
The last team to confirm itself in the semifinals was Municipal Limeño, the team that stood out in the regular phase on some dates for taking over the lead, the same team that sealed its participation in the semifinals by eliminating Platense with a 3-2 aggregate score.
Isidro Metapán became one of the surprises of the quarterfinals by defeating and subsequently eliminating the second most regular club in the first phase of the Clausura tournament, first with the match at the “Calero” Suárez where the jaguars beat 2-0 the bulls and in the second leg a narrow defeat of 1-0 as visitors in the “Devil’s Caldera”.
It should be remembered that Firpo finished second in the standings while Isidro Metapán in seventh place, an aspect for which the Santaneco team mocked on social networks for having eliminated the Alianza guard.
Metapán with 31 units in the table, had victories, four draws and nine defeats with 24 goals for and 22 against, while Firpo, the highest scoring team in the regular phase had 13 victories, 3 draws and 6 losses.
The leader of the regular phase, Alianza, was also present in the semifinals, after a victorious night at the Cuscatlán stadium in which it defeated 11 Deportivo. In retrospect, the white team came from a 1-1 draw in the first leg that was played at the Simeón Magaña stadium, home of the Aurinegro team, and in the second leg they respected their home at the Coloso de Monserrat and beat them 2 to 0, with goals from Michelle Mercado and Rodolfo Zelaya, the historic captain of the whites.
A completely different match was played at the Cuscatlán stadium, compared to the first leg that was played in Ahuachapán between two teams with a wide difference in the standings. Alianza, as the undisputed leader, and 11 Deportivo, as the last in the table, that although the team had character in the first match, the albos had no problem eliminating them.
With 45 units in the standings, 13 victories, among one of the most winners with 6 draws and 3 losses and with 39 goals for and 3 against, the albos will play one more semifinal under the direction of “Zarco” Rodríguez .
Among the four most outstanding teams is the undisputed leader of the regular phase; Alianza, against the fifth, FAS, one of the recent champions of the country’s king sport, and in the other key, the seventh in the table, which will face the third; Limeño.
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