[MEXICO] Tijuana opens play in Mexico’s Liguilla — the Liga MX postseason for the Torneo Clausura — on Thursday night when it hosts Toluca in a rematch of the2012 Torneo Apertura final Xolos won. They had not made the playoffs until they squeaked into the Torneo Clausura playoffs as the seventh-place team, and the same two American starters, Joe Corona and Edgar Castillo, from the the 2012 championship, are expected to start from a contingent of eight Americans onthe first team.

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