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Puebla’s Destiny In Their Own Hands

Puebla is practically in the Liguilla but a bad result over the weekend could spell differently.

Nov 12, 2009 10:19:33 AM

Sergio Perez- Puebla vs Monterrey (Mexsport)

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Puebla has the Liguilla within sights, they are inches away from qualifying but an opponent still remains. Pachuca is also playing for the same spot as Puebla but their chances look very slim. In order for Pachuca to go through they would need Puebla to suffer a defeat like they did last week to Cruz Azul. Sergio “Cherokee” Perez feels confident that losses like that wont happen again.

“It's obvious that we are all aware that we're in the playoffs but then sometimes some very strange things happen in football. We don’t want that to happen to us. It would be an immense failure to lose by a lot of goals and to have our spot disappear. We want to feel like we are in it already, that we've earned it, and we want to measure up against the best, and the first step will be against Toluca,” said Sergio Perez to Mediotiempo.com.

Toluca will be Puebla’s final opponent but it might also be their toughest. Toluca is second in the overall standings and has been known to drop goals in an instant. Perez feels Puebla is too good to suffer a bad loss; it used to happen before but not any more.

“We don't want any more losses like the one we suffered against Cruz Azul,” admitted Perez. “We gave away the game too easily, like we used to do when we first came up to the Primera Division and we were new at this.”

Puebla is still in a rebuilding stage according to El Cherokee. He knows that with more success comes more money and better players.

“It's important to have Puebla not fighting at the bottom, to have Puebla an important team because that's going to yield more money to be able to bring in more players. Then we'd see a different Puebla, like the one that played 10 years ago,” explained Perez.

Perez admits that no team is perfect and they will trip up from time to time but Puebla will not be making a habit of it.

“Nobody comes to Puebla and scores a lot of goals on us anymore. This loss to Cruz Azul was a fluke. We are well-planted in the Primera Division and that's what we've been wanting for a while,” El Cherokee said.

Sylvestre Adame, Goal.com

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