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By: EFE
Monday, July 1
Leon vs. Atlas: Mexican soccer reached its decisive stage and will define the new Liga MX champion
The Rojinegros del Atlas , back in a final after more 22 years, will visit the next Thursday to León at the beginning of the series that will decide the tournament champion Opening 2021 of Mexican soccer .
The Liga MX confirmed this Monday the schedule for the final, which is given for the first time in the league, and he does not have a clear favorite because both paintings arrive on equal terms.
Atlas, directed by the Argentine Diego Cocca , shows the best defense of the championship, led by goalkeeper col ombiano Camilo Vargas, and has shown a practical football with the pair of the Argentine Julio Furch and the Colombian Julián Quiñones , who have a good time in form and have understanding.
Cocca’s team drew goalless at the Monterrey stadium , in the quarterfinals, and defeated the ; Key to the victories in those series were the results in the first leg duels in other people’s yards, a trend that the team will try to endorse this Thursday.
In the regular phase, the Atlas finished in second place with 29 points, the same as León, third. Atlas conceded four fewer goals and scored one more, but that statistic is a thing of the past and, if he wants to win, Cocca’s team will have to be focused.
León, commanded by the Argentine strategist Ariel Holan , eliminated Puebla in the quarterfinals and Tigres UANL, in semifinals , with two goals in each series from Ecuadorian Ángel Mena, who is in his best moment of the year.
Mena will double up front with the Chilean Víctor Dávila with the aim of winning the first leg at home and having an advantage for the return match on Sunday, in Jalisco, Atlas stadium.
The two teams they committed distractions in the semifinals; León received two goals in two minutes at the end of the first leg against the Tigres and Atlas conceded a goal due to an error by goalkeeper Vargas, perhaps the best of the tournament, at the end of the decisive duel against Pumas.
As a result of that, the two tied their semifinal series, León 3-3 with Tigres and Atlas, 1-1 with Pumas and they classified to the final for best position in the table in the regular phase.