By Edgardo Avelar
The Pumas, Against all odds, they took perfect advantage of the last date of the Clausura 2026 tournament to snatch the overall leadership from the Chivas thanks to the combination of results which generated their victory at Pachuca’s home 0-2 and the draw of Rebaño Sagrado with Xolos 0-0.
With these results, both teams reached 36 points, but the cats surpassed them with two more goals to conclude the championship with a better goal difference. and in this way face the eighth place in the overall table that Atlas and Xolos de Tijuana competed for.
The closing could not go without controversy either, because Pumas was favored with a very controversial penalty in a play where Víctor “Pocho” Guzmán was stepped on by Jordan Carrillo and the referee interpreted that it was a foul by the Tuzos player to reaffirm the cat’s victory with the penalty scored by Paraguayan Robert Morales almost at the end of the first half, after at the beginning of the match, Uriel Antuna had opened the scoring.
The opposite happened in Guadalajara, where whistler Katia Itzel García did not score a penalty against Xolos in the final minutes of the match held at the Akron stadium and which would have meant the overall leadership for the Sacred Flock and the option to continue fighting for the million dollars.
But the Ecuadorian’s hand stopped scoring Jackson Porozo when he disputed the ball high with a Chivas forward and in his fall, Turning his back to the ball, he touched the ball with his hand, but the whistler reviewed the action in the VAR and decided not to score the maximum penalty that would have changed the fate of the Chivas.
This is how history was written, where in the duel between Pachuca against Pumas, the cats took advantage of the Hidalgo confusion of the first half to prevent them from improving their position for the league and instead, they went with everything in search of victory to remain as general leaders in something that had not happened for 11 years, after that year they had broken a 24-year malaria without dominating the competition, since the 1990-91 season had been the other time as general leaders.
So the work of Efraín Juárez with some Pumas that reached 36 points It exceeds the numbers of 2015, which had taken over the overall leadership with 35 units. Now, after enduring pressure against the coach, he managed to convince his team and reach a milestone for the team of the highest educational institution.
While Chivas did not know how to play against the privilege of starting as general leaders.
Continue reading:
– Pumas ousted Cruz Azul from the sub-leadership by defeating Atlético San Luis 0-2
– Gabriel Milito says Chivas can reach a higher level after the 5-0 win
– The cycle has closed: Chivas and Alan Pulido terminate their contract early
