Pachuca vs Atlas Match Preview
With their backup goalkeeper and their starting striker out due to injury, Pachuca will host Atlas at the Estadio Hidalgo after a positive week of games, despite losing to Tigres in the mid-week matchday 14.
Atlas, with 17 points and an eleventh place within the 18-team fold, still harbor possibilities of being qualified to the playoff round, but need to beat Pachuca in order to jump up the table and position themselves amongst the eight best.
Pachuca find themselves in thirteenth, with just one point less than their rivals at the Estadio Hidalgo, by way of a positive managerial change instigated with Pablo Marini vacating the spot for Efrain Flores, former Mexico national team manager.
Rodolfo Cota, second-choice Pachuca goalkeeper, has been key in avoiding any further loss of points now that Miguel Calero has been out to injury.