Santos Laguna put in an inspiring performance, but it wasn’t enough as Toluca progressed to the Liguilla semifinals with a 5-4 aggregate victory on Saturday.
Toluca arrived to this game following away success in the first leg, thrashing Santos Laguna 4-1 at the Estadio Corona. The result forced Santos Laguna to score at least four goals to have any chance of moving on to the semifinals.
In the 21st minute, Santos Laguna scored the all-important breakthrough when Enrique Triverio headed in an own-goal following a corner.
But Santos’ prospects of an incredulous fightback took a big blow when a lovely play from Rubens Sambueza down the left-hand side ended with Antonio Rios scoring the leveler.