00:00The standings don't lie. Pumas on fourth place after not qualifying last year and only making 21 points in the
00:08whole season.
00:09Now we're sitting nicely. Look at that 27th.
00:11Look at that, my friends.
00:13This is a very different looking table from past years.
00:16And I think Puma is taking advantage of that and looking absolutely great.
00:19I mean, look at where America is sitting first.
00:21Ay-yi-yi.
00:22And it looks like they didn't really need Aaron Ramsey, I guess.
00:24On the way, no, no, no.
00:26And rumor has it, my friends, rumor has it that Pumas is trying to break the internet, como dicen los
00:34jóvenes, because they're looking at Coutinho, my friends.
00:37The former Barcelona player might be dressed up on blue and gold.
00:42We'll see.
00:42But let's look at the standing from the top because Chivas, saludos desde aquÃ.
00:47Las Chivas continúan in first place, dominating performance this season.
00:52They are the team to beat right now.
00:53Now, they will struggle later with the national team members leaving.
00:57We'll talk about it.
00:58But Cruz Azul, second place, eliminated by LAFC.
01:02Don't forget that.
01:03We'll talk about CONCACA champions.
01:04Pachuca right there in the mix.
01:06But, Nick, what is your overall look?
01:08We have Toluca, Tigres, the usual suspects.
01:11But right outside, we have something brewing.
01:14Yes, yeah.
01:14What's happening?
01:15Okay, I'm getting flashbacks looking at Toluca right there after the Galaxy-Toluca match.
01:21We'll talk about CONCACAF.
01:22What am I looking at?
01:23I mean, I'm looking at sort of, you know, the bottom of who's going to go into the Ligia.
01:27Look at Tigres.
01:28Tigres, a team that just is like basically limping out of their CONCACAF match against Seattle Sounders.
01:34Is that going to sound off some alarms?
01:36Losing that last match at home over there on the road but still going because they got more goals?
01:42I think that they're building momentum.
01:44They're building momentum.
01:44They had a really tough first half of the season.
01:47They were not performing the way that we expect Tigres to perform.
01:50Finally, they had a critical result against Chivas.
01:54Sorry, Chivas.
01:55You know?
01:56Cuatro pepinazos le metieron a las Chivas.
01:59Los perritos con cuernos.
02:00They were not able to resist Tigres.
02:03That seemed to be like the old Tigres.
02:05Now they get the result.
02:06They advance on CONCACAF champions.
02:09The advancement is the key part that they might bring to close these three last match days with what they
02:15need to make it into the Ligia.
02:16Can they do that with the possibility of Angel Correa eyeing out of the club?
02:21Yes.
02:21Possibly making a move.
02:22Argentina, you never know.
02:24Tigres, Tigres, Tigres.
02:26I mean, I think that they were starting to go on a bad run with losing the two games from
02:31their last five.
02:32But then they got the win.
02:33And so I think that this is going to, you know, switch the mentality for this team.
02:37And, you know, they're still in the top five, you know?
02:41So.
02:41Hey, but.
02:42The top six, my bad.
02:43You know who's not too far out?
02:44When I'm looking at this, I'm looking at Juarez.
02:47Juarez.
02:48Look, Tijuana, as like a guy from L.A., I'm always kind of rooting low-key for Tijuana just because
02:53it's geographically close to me.
02:54But Juarez, another border club that I don't think is out of the realm of possibility for them.
02:59No, no.
03:00They have to be consistent.
03:01They have it yet.
03:01They haven't been that consistent.
03:04I would put that more on Caxinha, maybe not stepping up as a coach.
03:08New coach.
03:09Yeah.
03:10We'll give him time.
03:11I could see Juarez going.
03:12They're doing great with this.
03:14But I got a question.
03:15Now with Tijuana being in 10th place, should Mexico be worried that Gilberto Mora isn't the player that they thought
03:23he was?
03:23No, I think he is the player.
03:25I think that he's, let me pull from the archive, my friends, the story of a young player called Andres
03:32Guardado.
03:33Andres Guardado used to play in Atlas, very young.
03:36Not a lot of people were convinced of his call-up to the Mexican team.
03:42He debuted against Argentina on elimination round of the World Cup, and it was the big surprise of the tournament.
03:49Everybody was blown away, and the rest is history.
03:52Everybody knows what Andres Guardado became after that.
03:55Now, Gilberto Mora, he had all the opposite, right?
04:00He is very well known.
04:02The expectations are really high.
04:04But the reality is that I think that they're carrying him in the best way possible after a very, very
04:11dangerous and a nuisance of an injury, pulvalgia, that is very hard to heal from.
04:17And I believe that little by little, he'll play, regain that edge, and he will be one of the standard
04:22players of the World Cup.
04:23Now, I want to make a mention to Atlas, because Atlas is right there.
04:29Luis, I know that you're watching.
04:31I know that you're there hoping for Atlas to make it to the Liguilla.
04:35We hope so, too.
04:36It's a team that is in rebuilding.
04:38You're like Juarez.
04:39Long-term projects that show that now in Mexico there's parity, and it's not only the big teams that are
04:45fighting.
04:46They also struggle.
04:47America might, you know, it might be the end of the dream for them.
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