The Seattle Sounders traveled to Estadio León in Guanajuato, Mexico for the second leg of their quarterfinal matchup with León, and they did more than enough to secure their place in the Concacaf Champions League semifinals.
The Sounders were minutes from another historic win in Mexico, but a goal for León leveled the score for the night at 1-1 but it was most academic as it merely cut the aggregate-goal margin to 4-1.
That goal provided a bit of synchronicity to Fredy Montero’s penalty that opened the scoring in first-half stoppage time. The PK was earned by João Paulo, who both started the play with an excellent ball to send Kelyn Rowe into space, then received a drop pass from Jordan Morris before driving into the box and being brought down.