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Club America vs. Atlas: How to watch Leagues Cup, TV channel, live stream

The two Liga MX sides face off as the competition enters the knockout phase

The 2024 Leagues Cup has reached the knockout stage, with Club América set to face Liga MX rival Atlas in the last 32 on Friday night.

Along with the Columbus Crew, América is one of just two teams who didn’t participate in the group stage and instead were given a bye directly to the knockout stage.

With no league games on the calendar, América recently played a pair of friendlies against Premier League sides in the United States. André Jardine’s side lost 3-0 to Chelsea before defeating Aston Villa 1-0.

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Atlas, meanwhile, is coming off a 2-1 loss to Real Salt Lake, but still advanced thanks to a 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo to kick off the competition.

The winner of this tie will face the winner of St. Louis City-Portland Timbers in the round of 16.

Here is everything you need to know ahead of the game.

Club America vs. Atlas (Leagues Cup round of 32)

  • When: Friday, August 9
  • Where: Snapdragon Stadium (San Diego, CA)
  • Time: 10 p.m. ET
  • Channel/streaming: MLS Season Pass on Apple TV (WATCH LIVE), TUDN

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Atlas Twitter account having normal one, cites Hitler in complaint over offside call

This is just one great big yikes

There is a long, winding and tortuous road that must be travelled to get from “being mad about an offside call” to a final destination of “citing Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels,” but the Atlas FC Twitter account took that cursed journey on Monday.

Nothing good will come from utilizing the Third Reich to get your point across about a Leagues Cup game, but the Liga MX club tried anyway when discussing a call from the previous night’s game against NYCFC.

Did we mention the call actually went in favor of Atlas and also that it won the match? Those facts are both beside the point and yet still even more mind-blowing when examining a tweet that — to be clear — referenced two of the principal architects of World War 2 and the Holocaust.

With Atlas leading 1-0 in Sunday’s match, NYCFC appeared to notch a late equalizer through Justin Haak. After a VAR review, however, the goal was disallowed and Atlas would hold on for the win.

The protests against that call were apparently too much for the Atlas Twitter account to take, as it opted to use Hitler and his chief propagandist to make a very normal and salient point about analysts breaking down the offside call.

Several hours after it was posted, Atlas would delete the tweet and issue an apology.

To all social media managers (and just, people): Unless you are talking specifically about World War 2 and/or the Holocaust, the Nazi references are probably a bad idea!

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