Liga MX Goals of the Week: The best from Jornada 4 of the Clausura

Jon Arnold

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There were 22 goals in Liga MX Jornada 4's nine matches and every game saw at least one goal. It's a bit of a relief for fans after Jornada 3 brought four scoreless draws. This weekend, things were back to normal in Liga MX, with Tigres' thrilling 3-2 win over Pachuca leading the way for scoring aficionados and Necaxa's shock 4-0 smashing of Leon bringing excitement for fans who don't support La Fiera.

Each week, Goal runs through the top three goals in Liga MX, giving points for style, scenario and swagger.  Honorable mention this week goes to Monterrey's Aviles Hurtado for a top-class goal against Chivas and America's Bruno Valdez for his header against Atlas.

Below are the Liga MX goals that topped even those efforts this weekend:

3.  Andre-Pierre Gignac (Tigres) - 3-2 v. Pachuca

Goal's Liga MX Goal of the Week committee feared an ethical quandary during Tigres' win over Pumas on Saturday. Eduardo Vargas scored a lovely goal from a back-heel but was clearly offside. Should the goal be included in our prestigious list? Would you, the reader, ever return to trust us again if we put a goal that would've been invalidated were there VAR or other technology in Mexico? It was a gorgeous play, and it was a goal. But the ethics of it all.

Luckily for us, and for Tigres fans, Andre-Pierre Gignac made the question go away with his even better goal. This one, scored just two minutes after Pacuca drew level, gets just the slightest redirection from Gignac's plant foot. Did the Frenchman mean it? He definitely wasn't sure it would go in but as soon as it crosses the line he's off to celebrate like it was just what he had planned the whole time.

2. Dieter Villalpando (Necaxa) - 4-0 v. Leon

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Jon Arnold covered the Mexico national team and Concacaf region in English for Goal until March 2020. His byline also has appeared in the Dallas Morning News, the New York Times Goal blog, FloFC and Pacific Standard. In addition to his written work, he serves as the Concacaf expert on the BBC's World Football Phone-In and has appeared on SiriusXMFC in English and Fox Deportes and Milenio in Spanish. Formerly based in Tijuana and currently living in Texas, Jon covered the 2018 World Cup, the 2015 Copa America, the 2016 Copa America Centenario and the last five Gold Cups.