Toluca and Pachuca drew their quarterfinal series against Santos and Tigres, respectively, on Sunday night and qualified for the semifinals of the Apertura tournament in Mexico.In the first matchup, Chilean Jean Meneses and Colombian Andrés Mosquera scored goals in a span of three minutes in the second half and Toluca pulled off an upset, beating Santos Laguna 2-1.At the last minute, with a goal from Javier López in the second half, Pachuca won 2-1 over Tigres to advance in the other bracket.Meneses converted the first goal of the match in the 46th minute and Mosquera extended the lead in the 49th minute for the Red Devils, who advanced to their first semifinals since the 2018 Clausura tournament.Toluca, which finished in sixth position after the regular tournament, qualified with a global score of 6-3 and will now face America, which was the leader and advanced to the semifinals by beating Puebla with a combined score of 11-2.In the other key, Pachuca will measure forces with Monterrey, which is the second seed in the league.The official schedules of the meetings will be announced on Monday in the Mexican Football Federation.Toluca is the third most successful team in Mexico with 10 championships, but has not been a league champion since Clausura 2010.Seeking to put an end to that drought, the team's leadership invested in the signing of half a dozen players in the summer, including Meneses and Mosquera, as well as Brazilian goalkeeper Tiago Volpi, Paraguayan Carlos González and Fernando Navarro.The Uruguayan Fernando Gorriarán discounted at 90 for Santos, who closed the regular tournament as third in the standings with four wins in their last five games and with the second best offense in the championship, but none of that helped them against the Red Devils.Later, in Pachuca, López came off the bench to score a goal in the second half and Pachuca defeated Tigres 2-1 to qualify for the semifinals.Víctor Guzmán put the Tuzos in front in the 19th minute, but the Argentine Rodríguez leveled the game with a header in the 63rd and the “Chofis”, who entered the game in the 67th, scored the winning goal two more minutes afternoon.The series ended tied 2-2, but Pachuca advanced by better position in the table, where they were fourth, while Tigres was fifth.The locals took the lead when Ecuadorian Romario Ibarra sent a cross from the right into the area, where Guzmán came from behind to convert with a shot through the right post by Argentine goalkeeper Nahuel Guzmán.In the second half, Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac received a cross from the right inside the area and gave a pass to Pizarro, who connected a header that left Argentine goalkeeper Óscar Ustari without a chance.The Tuzos secured their place in the semifinals when López received a pass from the left flank and took a shot inside the area that hit the crossbar and went into the back of the net.