The Argentine coach Puebla's Pablo Guede became the second coach to lose his job in the current Apertura 2025 tournament after Friday night's 2-0 defeat to Atletico San Luis, which marked their fourth loss in five Liga MX games.

This is a surprising decision given that next week the club will face the Seattle Sounders in the Leagues Cup quarterfinals, and where it was thought that the Puebla team would keep their coach on the same page to avoid experimenting with a new coach ahead of this important match.

Martin Bravo of the U21 team will take charge of the team

Minutes after Guede's stance, the Puebla board announced the dismissal of the strategist who led the Clausura 2025 and Apertura 2025, that the Argentine Martin Bravo would take the position on an interim basis, who had been serving as coach of the Puebla U21 team while waiting to decide if they will get the services of another coach.

But the thread was cut at the thinnest point and after the clear defeat against San Luis, at the end of the match in the press conference, the coach himself announced the board's decision under the argument of the poor results that were recorded in this first part of the soccer league tournament of Mexico.

In this way, Guede joined Gonzalo Pineda, who resigned from Atlas last week after considering that his speech and football ideas no longer had force with the players and that his style of play did not agree with the squad that ended up being put together with the red and blacks.

In this way, visibly dejected, but calm, Guede informed the press present at the press conference that: "My time at Puebla is over, the truth is that I am extremely grateful, mainly to Gabriel (Saucedo),For all the support he put me through, he's a super-qualified person with the project he has. To Chiquis (Garcia) as well, to all the club employees who, honestly, I'm leaving with a ton of friends," said the now former Puebla strategist.

But beyond words, the reality is that Guede couldn't take the hand of Liga MX and much less in this tournament, because after the resounding 7-0 against Tigres last week, it was only a matter of a spark for them to thank him and that happened in this fifth date when they fell to an Atletico San Luis that is also not going through a good moment.

"I want to thank the players, who gave it their all until the last moment. This is football, I think the results weren't what we wanted, with the hope that we were. On to something else”, were the words in Guede's last press conference as Puebla coach.

The Leagues Cup seemed like a mirage for the people of Puebla

While it is true that in the Leagues Cup, Puebla seemed to have a better face with two wins and a loss that allowed them to advance to the next phase, the reality is that the two victories over New York City FC 0-3 and against Montreal 2-1, did not calm the doubts that were fueled by the defeat in this same competition against the Columbus Crew 3-1.

All of this was adding up against the management of the Argentine-Spanish strategist so that in the end the Puebla board made the decision to thank him and analyze the arrival of another strategist in order to straighten out the Puebla's ship.

Guede's total number of appearances at Puebla was 24 matches directed, with five wins, three draws and 16 losses, a very poor performance for the Puebla project that was trying to grow and consolidate at other levels.