Toluca beat Atlas 4-1 this Sunday and established itself as leader of the Clausura tournament Mexican in the fourteenth day, whose top scorer is the Venezuelan striker Salomón Rondón, from Pachuca.
Toluca beat the already eliminated Atlas with goals from the Uruguayan Andrés Pereira, and the Mexicans Alexis Vega, Jesús Angulo and Édgar López. José Lozano discounted for Atlas.
The victory qualified Toluca for the final phase with 29 points, the same as América, which this Saturday tied 1-1 with a goal from Alejandro Zendejas against Santos Laguna. Stephan Carrillo scored the other goal of the game.
Cruz Azul beat Monterrey 2-1, third place with 28 points. Uriel Antuna scored twice for the light blue team and Víctor López did it for Rayados.
The Monterrey team is thinking about this Wednesday when it will host Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup. The first leg was 1-2 in favor of the Mexicans in the duel in Miami.
Toluca, América, Monterrey and Cruz Azul occupy the first four places; The Azules, fourth place, take a point away from Pachuca, fifth, who, also on Saturday, beat Tigres UANL by 0-3.
A Liga MX day marked by Chicharito Hernández’s goal
One of the highlights of the fourteenth day was the reappearance as a scorer of the World Cup player Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, top scorer of the Mexican team, who scored for the first time in Mexico in almost 14 years.
Guadalajara, led by Argentine Fernando Gago, defeated Puebla 3-2 with annotations by ‘Chicharito’, Erick Gutiérrez and Roberto Alvarado. Diego de Buen and Alberto Herrera were discounted for Puebla.
The fourteenth date of the Clausura started this Friday, when the UNAM Pumas beat Mazatlán 0-4 and Necaxa defeated Tijuana 2-3.
Matches on date 15 of the Liga MX Clausura tournament:
12.04: Querétaro-Mazatlán, Necaxa-Santos Laguna and Puebla-Cruz Azul.
13.04: Pachuca-Guadalajara, América-Toluca and Monterrey-Tigres.
14.04: Atlas-San Luis, Pumas-León and Juárez-Tijuana.
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– New super leader in Liga MX: Toluca beats Atlas and unseats América as the best in the tournament
– With a double from Uriel Antuna, Cruz Azul defeats Rayados and helps América stay on top