The new Liga MX Repechage will be NBA style with ‘playoffs’ within the playoffs; know the format! – Fox Sports

The Assembly of Owners of Liga MX made a controversial decision, because even though the repechage It has been criticized even by players and coaches, this will be maintained, with an exotic modification, since it will involve the dispute of a play-off within the play-off itself.

The owners of the Liga MX clubs decided to maintain this instance due to the economic benefits that this implies, although they will reduce the number of equipment enter this phase, because they will no longer be from place 5 to 12 but from 5 to 10, according to Fernando Cevallos, a journalist from Fox Sports México.

Thus, the plan is that only 10 equipment from Liga MX enter the Final Phase of the mexican soccer, where from 1 to 6 they will do it directly and from 7 to 10 they will dispute the rest of the tickets through the repechage. This is unlike the format that Clausura 2023 still had, in which the Group Phase was surpassed by the first 12 clubs, with four entering the Liguilla directly and from 5 to 12 they played the Repechage.

The curiosity of the new Repechage is that it will be played in the style “Play in” from NBA, so that the seventh will play against the eighth and the ninth against the tenth place of the General Table. According to the tradition of Mexican soccer, 7 would have played against 10 and 8 against 9. However, this new arrangement is because that is where the “Repechaje” enters within the Repechage.

And it is that the winner of the 7th vs. 8th place series will go straight to the Liguilla, while the loser of that series will not be immediately eliminated, Rather, it will face the winner of the series that faced place 9 against 10, according to information from Rodrigo Tovar, a reporter for Fox Sports Mexico.

With the new format, those who would have been left without Repechage this semester would have been saint Louis y Santos. Thus, those who would have entered the Liguilla directly would have been Striped, America, Chivas, Toluca, Pachuca y León, while the Repesca duels would have remained between tigers vs. Cruz Azul and Atlas vs. Puebla.

The winner of Tigers vs. Cruz Azul advanced directly to the Liguilla, while the loser would face the winner of Atlas vs. Puebla.

In the NBA, the first six places of each Conference advance directly to the Playoff, while before the “Play in” it becomes a kind of Repechage. There, they face the 7 against the 8 and the 9 against the 10 of each Conference.

The winner of 7 vs. 8 goes straight to Playoffs, while the loser of 9 vs. 10 is removed. Thus, the loser of 7 vs. 8 faces the winner of 9 vs. on the 10th, and whoever wins that game becomes the second of the “Play in” that goes to the Playoff, remembering that the other was the winner of the duel between 7 vs. the 8.

After the World Cup in Qatar, FMF promised “big” changes in Mexican soccer

After the failure of not reaching the World Cup Round of 16, the Mexican organization, headed by Yon de Luisa and Jaime Ordiales, stated that a wave of changes would come throughout Mexican soccer in general.

Among the topics that were going to be touched on were the timeshare of the Liga MX, the number of foreigners and the elimination of the Repechage, as well as promotion and relegation. So far, the first change has been the reduction of equipment who access the repechage.

Assembly of Owners had as protagonists De Luisa, Azcárraga and the new Commissioner of Mexican soccer

Around the meeting between the high commands of the Liga MXthere were two issues in particular that drew attention: Yon’s “flight” from Luisa and the arrival of Emilio Azcárraga together with Juan Carlos “La Bomba” Rodríguez, who will assume the new position of Commissioner of Mexican soccer.

The still president of the Mexican Soccer Federation (FMF), to the surprise of many, did attend the Assembly of Owners of Liga MX; however, he was also the first to leave the facility without giving any statement.

On the other hand, the owner of Televisa arrived at the FMF facilities accompanied by the new Commissioner of mexican soccer; However, what he gave people something to talk about is that his truck had an America sticker on the back of the vehicle.