A new pandemic effect covid-19 in the MX League. Apart from the many positives in the teams, failures in health protocols, constant scheduling problems and postponement of matches due to disease outbreaks, Day 3 not more will have a match on Saturday, day which is usually the one with the most game load.
These are turbulent and strange times in the world, of course in the MX League is no exception and for this date 3, the only duel on Saturday will be on Atlas Vs. tigers, in the Jalisco Stage, programmed to be disputed to 19:00 hours time of central Mexico.
And it is necessary to remember that this date began from the Thursday 21 with the victory of the Atlético de Sant Lluís on Chivas; on Friday the Pobla vs. Tijuana and the Mazatlan Vs. Saints, as Sunday will be played Toluca vs. Necaxa and Galls Vs. Pumas; Monday will close the date with the Pachuca Vs. Blue Cross, while two games were postponed for covid-19: America Vs. Juárez (For February 3) i Scratched Vs. Lion (For March 10), both originally scheduled for this Saturday.
The last time there was only one game on Saturday was almost 16 years ago
To find the nearest antecedent in which on a regular season date only one game was played on a Saturday, one must go back to the Date 17 of the 2005 Closing with the Puebla 0-3 Tigres (Double by Aldo de Nigris and an Ireneu Soares), played on May 7, 2005 at the Cuauhtémoc stadium at 12:00 p.m.
The rest of the matches were played on Sunday, May 8th, All at the same time, 12:00 on the day. The reason was because being the last date the matches were usually played at the same time, so it was sought not to take “advantage” of the results of rivals, in the name of fighting for a ticket to the League.
However, the match between the Strip and the felines was the only one played on Saturday since Pobla at this point in the tournament he was down and only playing for honor, though tigers with the triumph he sealed his ticket to the Great Feast.
Two more antecedents date back 20 years
Apart from the closure 2005 is the closest precedent in time for a single game played on Saturday, this also happened in 1997, as both in the Summer tournament as in the Winter, this happened in its Days 17, with a party in Saturday and the rest in Sunday.
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