2023-05-01 03:04:06
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ESPN presents the direct qualifiers to the Liguilla and how the playoff keys will be played
In the play-off round corresponding to the Closing 2023highlights the duel between Blue Cross y Atlasdue to the closeness that both teams have in the general table as eighth and ninth, respectively, while the champion Pachuca will be measured before Santos, León contra St. Louis Athletic y tigers compared to Puebla.
For their part, in the direct qualifying zone, Monterrey, América, Chivas and Toluca await a rival in the quarterfinals.
Qualified to quarterfinals
Monterrey it rose as the best team of the tournament after 17 dates and closed the campaign as leader with 40 points, with a balance of thirteen wins, one draw and one loss.
In addition, those led by Víctor Manuel Vucetich displayed a level of play that allowed them to confirm their presence in the playoffs from Matchday 12, in which they beat tigers 0 to 1, and the week before they were proclaimed as the first secured place in the general classification after beating Mazatlan FC 0 a 2.
After beating FC Juárez 0 to 1 and with pressure of Chivas in the rearview mirror, America closed the tournament as second place with 34 points, product of nine wins, seven draws and one setback.
América, which has never set foot in the playoffs since its reinstatement at the 2020 Apertura, finished with the same number of points as Chivaswhich never advanced directly to the quarterfinals in the same period, however, the goal difference favored the cream-blue team with 15 compared to 10 for Rebaño.
With a streak of five duels without defeat, Chivas closed the tournament with a 4-1 win against Mazatlan FC and settled as the third overall rung, with the same number of points as América but with a lower goal difference.
Since the establishment in the play-off round at the Apertura 2020, it is the first time that Chivas He does not get stuck in the middle zone of the general table and gets a direct pass to the quarterfinals. Of those five fights in repechage, the Flock only advanced twice.
With a 3-0 win over Necaxa at the Nemesio Diez Stadium, Toluca completed the work and became the fourth direct guest to league.
Like ChivasIt is the first time that Toluca It remains among the first four places since the play-off was established, with four appearances in said instance and one more in which it was left on the edge, after finishing in fifteenth position in the Clausura 2022.
repechage
It is the most uneven series of duels that will take place in the reclassification of the contest. There were 12 points that separated Pachuca of Santos in the general table, where the Tuzos presume superiority in all areas, in addition to the fact that the Guerreros were benefited by the “relegation” of Querétaro, a situation that allowed them to advance to the Final Phase of the Clausura 2023.
The match in the regular phase between both squads was a sample of Pachuca’s superiority in the general table. The Tuzos defeated 1-4 Santoswhich was still directed by Eduardo Fentanes before the arrival of Pablo Repetto, on an afternoon in which the Guerreros were booed at their home.
The emeralds secured the sixth position with the win over tigers in the last game of the regular phase of the tournament. León surpassed by eleven points the St. Louis Athletic in the regular phase of the Clausura 2023 and they will play the only playoff series in which neither of the two teams made changes to the bench throughout the 17 days.
During the regular phase they met on the tenth date at the Nou Camp, the stadium where they will play the playoffs. León won 2-0 over St. Louis Athletic in an even duel. The two scores of the Fiera fell in added time of the commitment, in which Brian Rubio and Héctor Uribe scored the goals of the game.
The Nuevo León team closed the regular phase with a setback against León, a game in which he saved his best pieces for the second leg of the Concacaf Champions League semifinal. He was in seventh place with 20 units, just five more than the ones that Puebla reaped throughout the 17 days.
Just last Thursday, April 20, on Matchday 16 of the contest, they met in the regular phase of the contest. As the repechage will be, the match was played at the Estadio Universitario, where tigers won 1-0 over Puebla with annotation by André-Pierre Gignac.
According to what was harvested in the regular phase of the Closing 2023, is the most even key of the repechage duels. Only three points separated Cruz Blue and Atlas. Both received 22 annotations, but the rojinegros surpassed the Máquina in goals, with 27 goals for the people from Guadalajara, compared to 22 for the cement workers.
Blue Cross victory to Atlas in the duel of the regular phase. It was on Matchday 7 in the first game of Joaquín Moreno’s internship, after the dismissal of Raúl ‘Potro’ Gutiérrez and before the arrival of Ricardo ‘Tuca’ Ferretti. La Máquina won 1-0 at the Azteca Stadium with a score by Augusto Lotti at minute 76.
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