Photo: FC Juárez Femenil.
Stop it if you’ve heard this before: FC Juárez is on a roll.
It’s hard not to write about FC Juárez during every weekly recap in the Clausura campaign of Liga MX Femenil this season. Juárez is a team that started to slowly climb up the table last season after spending year after year. This year, they made a massive jump and are not just competing for a Liguilla spot, but the first-place seed.
FC Juárez helped their case to win the league after handing a massive loss to Tigres. On their home field, Juárez put up a 3-1 scoreline on Tigres to stun the five-time Liga MX Femenil champions.
Radford University alum and California native Jasmine Casarez scored the opening goal just nine minutes in. Casarez found herself wide open in the box and picked up a bouncing cross inside the box, slotting it to the far end of the net.
Maricarmen Reyes, of UCLA, scored in the 44th minute to equalize before the half. Tigres earned a free kick and lofted it in the box. The initial attempt slowly made it…
