The Mexican football league follows a very strange system for those that follow European competitions. It has two tournaments per year (Apertura during the fall and Clausura in spring) and a system of league followed by playoffs. 18 teams are divided in three groups based on last year’s performance out of which the top 2 qualify to the quarterfinals, and another 4 teams to a preliminary play-off round. If you don’t get it, don’t worry, neither did I when I was a kid…

Why is this important? Because Chivas did qualify to the preliminary play-off phase, and played on wednesday against Veracruz, beating them 1-2. Tonight the “holy flock” plays at home, and we hope to get to the quarters. It would be very important for the team and the fans to win the league given that we haven’t won in 9 years, we’re still the team with the most titles in the league, and this year is our 100th anniversary (we had big celebrations in May).

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with wednesday’s goals and I hope I wake up a happy man tomorrow morning.