Tigres UANL 1-1 Atletico San Luis
Tigres UANL and Atletico San Luis shared the spoils in a Liga MX women's regular season match on Sunday, drawing 1-1 at the Estadio Universitario. The result left the home side three points clear of San Luis in third place, though the margin felt narrower than the table suggests. By then, the game had already settled into its pattern — one team controlling territory, the other waiting for space.
And here's the thing about the twentieth minute: A. Bello picked up a yellow card for Tigres, and though it looked like a minor infringement, it shifted something in the rhythm. Bello would go on to score in the twenty-third minute, marking his first start with a goal, but the card stayed on his record. San Luis responded through A. Delgado in the forty-ninth, and from that point the match became a question of who could hold their nerve longer.
The statistics told a familiar story. Tigres enjoyed sixty-six per cent possession and registered sixty-seven attacks, yet only three shots found the target. San Luis, with thirty-four per cent of the ball, managed six shots on target and hit a higher accuracy rate. To be fair, this is not unusual — many shots with one goal means chances went begging, and the visitors made better use of what they were given.
What really changed the game came in the eighty-sixth minute. N. Coury received a second yellow card for Tigres and was sent off, leaving the hosts to see out the closing stages with ten players. The substitution pattern had been busy throughout — six changes between the sides — but that red card forced Tigres to defend deeper. They managed to rescue a point, though the win they needed felt further away with each passing minute.
In the table, Tigres remain third with twenty-one points from eight games, five wins and a loss. San Luis sit seventh with fifteen points, also from eight matches. The result does little to separate them on paper, but it extended San Luis's recent unbeaten run and ended Tigres's expectation of another home victory. We had given the home side a sixty-nine per cent chance of winning, but the match went another way — not because they played poorly, but because efficiency matters more than possession when the final whistle approaches.
