Saturday night might be have been the most emotionally charged, edge of your seat, nail biting Mexico-USA game ever. Mexico was able to come away in a thrilling 3-2 win in extra time. Now El Tri returns to Mexico to face a Panama team looking for some sort of revenge on the newly crowned undisputed kings of CONCACAF.

It was just a few months ago in the Gold Cup semifinal where Panama felt undone by a handball call late in regulation with resulted in Andres Guardado sinking a penalty kick into the back of the net to send the game into extra time. Later in overtime, a foul was called in the box for Mexico which Andres Guardado again was able to sink the ball into the back at the net, while also sinking Panamanian hearts.

The game will be a sendoff for interim coach Ricardo Ferretti, as well as a sendoff for his famous mustache which he agreed to shave off after winning the CONCACAF Cup. The Panama game will be Ferretti’s fourth and final in his interim stint. Newly appointed full time coach Juan Carlos Osorio will take over The Black Aztecs as they kick off CONCACAF World Cup qualifying next month.

As for Tuesday night’s matchup from Toluca, Mexico, Mexico will be without captain Rafael Marquez, Andres Guardado, and Javier Chicharito Hernandez. The first two were able to recover from injury in time for Mexico’s CONCACAF Cup but won’t be risked for the friendly. While Hernandez joins his club team, Bayer Leverkusen, as the Mexican Federation and Leverkusen came to an agreement to allow Chicharito joining his club after Saturday.

Look for Mexico to play plenty of the players who didn’t get into the CONCACAF cup, including many Tigres players such as Israel Jimenez, Jorge Torres Nilo, and Javier Aquino. In goal, Alfredo Talavera will most likely get the start in goal considering he plays his club soccer for Toluca. Ferretti has already mentioned that he will start a makeshift lineup and it won’t be anything close like the one he played against the United States, given the lack of time to recover for the players, many of whom played 120 minutes.

This game also marks the return of Carlos Vela playing in Mexico for the first time in more than four years. Since his return to the national team in November of last year, Vela has refused to talk to the Mexican press and has kept to himself when it comes to anything involving the Mexican media. It looks like his relationship with the staff and players is great though, so it will be interesting to see how the local press and fans welcome back Vela.

This game isn’t just a friendly for Mexico to bask in the glory of Saturday’s win. It’s the first chance any player will get to make an impression on new coach Osorio, who will be watching from the stands. Any chance to show the new boss what you can bring to the table is one that should be taken from these players, who many are seen as fringe players.

It’s a closing of an era of sorts Tuesday night as Ferretti mostly tried to steady the ship for Mexico instead of rebuilding it from his predecessor. It will be chance for the Mexican people to celebrate their new CONCACAF champions and for Mexico to enter qualifying next month’s World Cup qualifying on a high note.