Liga MX round-up: Pumas score five, Lobos BUAP and Tigres win at home | OneFootball

An eight-goal thriller won by Pumas highlighted Sunday’s Liga MX action while Lobos, Tigres, and Monterrey also won.

Here’s how Sunday’s four Liga MX games played out:

Pumas UNAM 5-3 Necaxa

Though the match finished with a whopping eight goals, the pace of the early minutes suggested there might have been even more.

0-1: Dávila 13′ 1-1: Mendoza 24′ 1-2: Fernández 53′ 2-2: González Espínola 54′ 3-2: Rodríguez 67′ 4-2: Mozo 76′ 4-3: Dávila 78′ 5-3: González Espínola 81′

The match opened with end-to-end play before Víctor Dávila broke the dead-lock in the 13th minute. Alan Mendoza scored an off-balance volley from a short corner kick to tie the game for Pumas in the 24th minute.

Matías Fernández scored for Necaxa in the 53rd minute to re-take the lead as the proverbial floodgates opened in the second half. Carlos González Espínola scored the first of his two goals just a minute later.

Pumas pulled away after tying the game for the second time. The action kept coming including three goals in a five-minute period. González Espínola sealed the victory in the 81st minute, just after Necaxa theatened a come-back with Dávila’s second.

Alan Mozo’s eventual game-winner was perhaps the pick of a very full litter at the University Olympic Stadium.

Lobos BUAP 2-0 Veracruz

Lobos scored in first-half and second-half stoppage time to defeat Veracruz at home.

0-1: Laínez 45+1′ 1-1: Jiménez 90+1′

The run of play was predictably drab in a match-up of two of Mexico’s less fashionable sides. Mauro Laínez picked up a knock-down from Colin Kazim-Richards and finished well in added time to prevent a score-less draw at the half-time intermission.

A late free kick was headed on towards BUAP forward Diego Jiménez at the far post. Jiménez took a touch before firing his volley past Pedro Gallese for his 50th goal in all competitions for the club.

The Tiburones did not manage a single shot on target against Lobos BUAP and things don’t get any easier for the side which remain without a point through two league matches and a cup match. Veraruz next face off against Club América in Copa MX and Monarcas Morelia in the league.

Tigres UANL 1-0 Tijuana

André-Pierre Gignac scored the game’s only goal just before the hour-mark even though the home side dominated the match.

0-1: Gignac 59′

Tigres managed to hold 70% of possession and completed 622 passes to Tijuana’s 275. Even though the home side earned 14 corners, the Felinos could not successfully connect with Gignac or defenders Hugo Ayala and Jorge Torres Nilo.

The Frenchman’s powerful header nodded Javier Aquino’s service back in the direction it came to beat Manuel Lajud in Tijuana’s net.

The result keeps Tigres as one of four teams to hold six points after two rounds of the 2018 Apertura. Ricardo Ferretti’s players hope to win a fourth consecutive Apertura title in December and are on their way after match-day two.

León 0-2 Monterrey

0-1: Sánchez 74′ (p) 0-2: Funes Mori 90+3′

Rayados grabbed a foot-hold in the match due to a first-half red card and a second-half penalty kick. León folded late, earning a second dismissal and conceding a second goal to Monterrey.

Pedro Aquino Sánchez was shown a red card in the 23rd minute for a hard challenge on Avilés Hurtado. Nicolás Sánchez converted from the spot for the White-and-blues in the 74th minute.

In search of a stoppage-time equalizer, the Fiera goalkeeper Rodolfo Cota joined the attack on a corner kick. After possession turned over, Cota raced back to his goal-mouth but Rogelio Funes Mori’s shot beat the former Chivas net-minder.

Shortly after the goal, Fernando Navarro Morán received his second yellow card and became the second León player to hit the showers early.

Funes Mori’s goal came after 137 days away from the field due to compartment syndrome in his right leg. With the Argentine forward back in the scoring column, Monterrey hope their perfect start to the 2018 Apertura continues.