Pumas faces a tough visit to their city rivals in the return of coach Francisco Palencia to Cruz Azul.
In their first away game of the season, Pumas travel a couple of miles to face their city rivals Cruz Azul, which marks coach Francisco Palencia's return "home". Palencia debuted and for years became a star at Cruz Azul until problems with the club board forced him to depart and in a very controversial fashion.
This fight led him to say months later that Cruz Azul wasn't his home because "in my mom's house they never closed the door to me after I returned".