With six games gone in the Clausura 2012 the two sides who contested the final of the previous tournament lead the way. Champions Tigres are in first position on goal difference, ahead of Santos in second. This despite playing four of the six games without Lucas Lobos, their talismanic Argentine playmaker. Meanwhile Santos have also won four and drawn one of their six games with last tournament's top scorer Oribe Perralta finding the net only once. Ecuadorian Cristian Suárez has scored three for them.
Top scorer in the tournament so far is seventh placed Toluca's Iván Alonso, continuing his form from the Apertura with seven so far. Also amongst the chasing pack of teams are Pachuca and Cruz Azul, the only two teams still unbeaten, as well as Tomas Boy's Morelia and Monterrey, who can once again call upon the skills of Chilean striker Umberto "Chupete" Suazo, who failed to engineer a move away during the break between tournaments.
At the other end of the table winners of the penultimate tournament UNAM Pumas will be disappointed to find themselves in fifteenth place with just five points, but not half as disappointed as Chivas (Guadalajara), the most popular team in the country, who are bottom with just one point (gained at Pumas in an exceptionally dull 0-0 draw), a disastrous collapse in form for the team which finished top of the league table in the last tournament (before become the latest victim of the curse of the "superlider").
