Here are your five conclusions from the ninth week of play in the 2018 Liga MX Apertura.
Ferretti’s Tigres and Pachuca end even
Tigres struggled as they had to overcome a 1-0 deficit to earn a 1-1 draw with Pachuca at the Estadio Hidalgo on Saturday. The Felinos were absolutely played out of the park in the first 45 minutes and were lucky not to concede more than once. But a Lucas Zelarayan strike late in the game earned Ricardo “Tuca” Ferretti’s men a share of the spoils in the always difficult Hidalgo.
Tigres’s first half of the season was far from impressive, and seventh in the table is hardly where you’d expect a team of their calibre to be standing at this point of the season.