Tijuana was able to survive a lackluster first half to beat Puebla and move into the Liguilla to face arch-rivals León. Puebla went down a player in the 53rd minute, and Xolos was able to go in and score four in a sixteen minute span.
Tijuana had the first good opportunity of the match in the fifth minute when Jesús Angulo played a cross in on the turf to Ariel Nahuelpán, who made a run from the far side of the goal over toward Angulo and shot just over the bar.
In the ninth minute, referee Jorge Rojas went to VAR after a seemingly innocuous free kick where a Puebla player hit the deck.