Liga MX: Tigres and Juarez Struggle as Atlas Rises

One of the big storylines of this tournament, the, how can I call it, the debacle of Tigres falling from the graces of the top of the table to a very, you know, uncertain future. Y hablando de días de muertos, nadie más muerto que Juárez. Ooh, dead last. Chiva, let's get into it. What's going on at the border? What's going on at the border? Well, they have the Wander Kid, of course. Obviously, in Tijuana. The good side of the border, the Cholo side of the border. What's going on there? Look, I'm going to talk to you a little bit more. We're going with Juárez. I think with Juárez, a lot of changes. They have a really good squad. I think for the past seasons, we've seen how they build this amazing squad with great players. Unfortunately for them, it feels like... They are not connecting anymore. Yeah. A change needs to be done with the players. I think there is something going between them. And unfortunately for them, and good for them that there is no Asensio de Asensio, they're not being able to... We'll get into that in a minute. They're not being able to play the way they're supposed to play, right? I think Juárez is a team that wants to be relevant in Liga MX. Bringing big names, putting a lot of money into it, but not doing it the right way. Not doing it the right way. Juarez has been going up and down. Two tournaments ago they were in the Liguilla, they were one of the teams that made it difficult to go play in La Frontera, and then Pedro Caixinha comes. At the beginning of the previous tournament, everybody's like a winning coach, a championship coach. This is what the team needs. And like you said, it seemed like he was never able to get the players to buy into the culture, to buy into, you know, it's hard. It's a hard venue. It's a hard plaza to be in the border. It's very cold in the winter, incredibly cold. What is. Often they post their trainings during the winter and they're literally training in wide outfields. So it's not an easy place when you compare that if you, you know, you get offered to play in Mexico City or in Guadalajara or in Monterrey where it's a little more friendly. But Juárez has been struggling, but we'll talk about it later. The Bravas of Juarez, they're performing at the highest level, they're in first place, so there's no excuse for them to start working this ball of players. And the truth is that we miss seeing Juarez. We wanted to have more games for you guys here in Latination. Maybe there's a miracle of Christmas and Juarez sneak themselves into the Liguilla. The other team that might have some opportunities is Tigres. They have been struggling again. They lost players, they lost an iconic coach in a very sudden manner. They didn't have any transition plan for the post-Guiñac era. He went out the back door with no homenaje. Se llama karma. Karma. That's what's happening to Tigres. Karma. You mistreat your players. Aquino. Over a hundred players with the team. Bah! Out. Out of the team. Multiple times we've seen it. And now we have Brunetta, a player that has been putting every single... Drop of sweat and blood into the field to keep this team relevant is the only one. Nahuel is aging and he doesn't seem the passion. And since Guido left, he was very close to him. We haven't seen that. Now they have a new coach, El Rey Midas, Victor Manuel Bucetich, which is a coach that has won everything. The team is looking better, but even then, right now, they don't even know what is... Besides being the coach, what is Victor Manaluzatich's role in the team? Because they wanted to be like Pelado Almeida in Guadalajara, which is the coach, the president, the one who hires the players. They want to do something similar with Victor Manaluzatich, but right now they cannot find that connection for him. And it's going to be difficult for him if they don't give him, like what they took out for that, because he was very successful with Tigres. They gave everything to him, bring the players that you want, kick out the players that you don't need. But let's see what's going to happen with Tigres. Tigres is a team that is always not doing too good at the beginning, and at the end of the tournament, they close strong, and they win championships. La magia de la Liguilla en Liga MX. If you have four or five good games towards the end of the season, you might break it in. Now, let's talk about some... New coaches? New coaches. What are the biggest new coaches that you saw this tournament in Liga MX? Well, first, I want to focus on the teams that are doing well with these new coaches. A team that's doing well and a team that's not doing that well. I got to talk to you. No, I'm not going to talk about America. That's about to talk about that's only on the women's side. And we'll get into that in the following segment. But we have to talk about Atlas doing incredibly well. I think this has definitely been a turnaround season for them with the new coach Pumas and then on the other hand, Okay, okay. where we get into Pumas, let's talk about Atlas a little bit more because I want to talk about Hernan Crespo. Hernan Crespo is a player He was an elite player. He was a legend in Italy, a legend for the Argentinian national team in the 90s and the early 2000s. And he brought a whole new brand of football to this team. Atlas, to your disgrace, Chivas, has always been a team that pushes Mexican football forward. Great players have come out of it, great goalkeepers, great Chivas players have come from Atlas. Some legends of Chivas have come from Atlas. So it's an important team and for the longest time... You know, they were a wishy-washy team. They will have one good season, then they will go into, you know, oblivion for four or five years, and then they will come back. But right now, what's happening in Atlas is very interesting. I think ultimately it's good for Mexico. And consistency. I think that's what Crespo's doing. Yeah, let's not forget that the reason why Atlas is doing better, not that good, better, is because they have a new owner. They're actually talking now about building a brand-new stadium just for Atlas. And that's going to be something big for the region. I think the fact that Atlas will have their own stadium is going to make that rivalry even bigger between Chivas and Atlas.