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Cruz Azul, Monterrey and Puebla, about to release the minor rule

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By Edgardo Avelar

Sep 26, 2024, 11:46 PM EDT

Cruz Azul, Monterrey and Puebla will be able to sleep peacefully with the requirement to comply with the 1000 minutes dictated the minor rule 11/20 and where the three aforementioned squads benefited from the participation of several of their players in the past Under 20 World Cup that was played in Guanajuato.

In the case of Cruz Azul, the players in question who were used in the World Cup qualifiers They are Mateo Levy and Amaury Morales, who according to the reservations established by this normal competition regulation of the Apertura 2024 tournament in the section on the participation of minors, with the simple fact of adding 180 minutes in the Liga MX competition , they would record a total of 780 minutes of the 1000 they require in order not to be penalized with the loss of three points.

The same thing happened with the Rayados de Monterrey with the participation of the young man César Garza which will represent the squad led by Argentine Martín Demichelis with 500 minutes of this well-known rule to support the renewal of Liga MX teams.

While Puebla will receive the 320 extra minutes with the participation of the 180 minutes of defender José Pachuca, who has been given the opportunity by coach José Manuel de la Torre and which represents an achievement for the side’s team with the complications it is going through at the bottom of the table.

Maybe for the rest of the teams This exception to the minor rule on which Cruz Azul, Monterrey and Puebla have relied, to recover the lost ground that they had in the minute accumulation table, it has not been very pleasing, but no one can be surprised, since this option was proposed from the beginning and was approved by all the teams in the highest soccer circuit from Mexico.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, October 25, 2023. César Garza, during the matchday 4 of the Apertura 2023 tournament of the BBVA MX League, between the Rayados del Monterrey and the Xolos de Tijuana, held at the BBVA stadium. Photo: Imago7/ Jorge Mendoza
Cesar Garza, another of the players from the Under 20 National Team who participated in the Guanajuato World Cup and who helped the royal team to add direct minutes to the 20/11 minor rule in the Apertura 2024 tournament of the Liga MX.
Credit: Jorge Mendoza | Imago7

This is how the table of the minors goes in the MX League

For now, in the minor rule To date nine of the Apertura 2024 tournamentthe teams that have met and exceeded the thousand minutes of the minor rule are Pachuca with 2,398 minutes, Santos Laguna with 1,486 minutes, Necaxa with 1,445 minutes and Chivas with 1,239 minutes.

Next come the Xolos of Tijuana with 926 minutesAtlético San Luis with 786 minutes and 231 minutes remaining, Mazatlán with 682 minutes and 317 minutes remaining, Pumas with 645 minutes and 354 minutes remaining, FC Juárez with 581 minutes and 418 minutes remaining.

Monterrey with 573 minutes and the 500 that the participation of César Garza will give them will exceed the 1000 minutes required as a minimum figure to not be sanctioned, Atlas with 536 minutes and 463 minutes remaining, León 483 minutes and 516 minutes remaining.

Later comes América with 477 minutes and 522 minutes remain, Querétaro with 463 minutes and 536 minutes remain, Puebla with 449 minutes and 360 minutes for a total of 809 minutes, subtracting 191 minutes.

Finally Toluca with 405 minutes and 495 minutes left, Cruz Azul with 310 minutes plus the 700 that will be granted to them for the participation of Mateo Levy and Amauy Morales will add 1010 minutes, completing the minimum amount required of them and Tigres last with 260 minutes, subtracting 739 minutes in the missing dates for the regular tournament to conclude.

Puebla, Puebla, July 15, 2022. José Pachuca, during the match on matchday 3 of the Apertura 2022 tournament of the BBVA MX League U18 category, between Club Puebla and Esmeraldas del León, held at Club Alpha. Photo: Imago7/Sebastián Laureano Miranda
José Pachuca, defender of Puebla, helped the team a lot to comply with the minutes required by the 20/11 minor rule.

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