This long strike to help Tigres advance in Liga MX playoffs is pure beauty
This is how to advance in a playoff match.
Coming into Saturday return leg against Monterrey, Tigres looked to be sitting in pretty good position. They won the first leg, 4-1, and any sort of goal in the return leg would've essentially meant Monterrey would have Mt. Everest to climb and Tigres would be through to the Liguilla semifinals.
But not only did Tigres find a goal on Saturday — they found a moment of magic, courtesy of Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac. Take a look:
https://twitter.com/LIGABancomerMX/status/863560546825666561
He's standing maybe 35 yards out and he just launches the ball around the wall and inside the far post. It's a beautiful strike — he couldn't have hit it much sweeter than that.
Gignac would come back and score another, but there was no topping his first effort:
https://twitter.com/LIGABancomerMX/status/863568918488784899
The match finished with Tigres winning 2-0 and cruising past Monterrey in the quarterfinals by a 6-1 aggregate. With that, Tigres advance to the semifinals of the Liga MX playoffs and Monterrey are out of the Liguilla.
