A game on Monday means a day less to feel the pain

By: Andrea | October 20th, 2009

Pray for us Chicharo The game was played on Monday because of local elections in Torreon. That didn’t really matter. Chivas lost. Would Chivas have lost if the game had been on Sunday? Nah, probably not.

Santos have been on a climb, so they most likely would have continued had it taken place over the weekend.

Santos
1 Oswaldo Sánchez
4 Ivan Estrada (YC 92′)
21 Juan Pablo Santiago
47 Uriel Alvarez
125 Rafael Figueroa
5 Fernando Arce (YC 84′)
58 Juan Pablo Rodríguez (YC 38′)
7 Walter Jimenez (Carlos Ochoa 60′)
11 José María Cárdenas
28 Darwin Quintero (YC 44′) (Daniel Ludueña 71′)
30 Matías Vuoso (YC 6′) (Juan Carlos Mosqueda 82′)
DT Sergio Bueno

Guadalajara
1 Luis Michel
19 Jonny Magallón
6 Omar Esparza
3 Aarón Galindo (YC 50′) (RC 57′)
4 Héctor Reynoso
16 Édgar Solís
20 Édgar Mejía
17 Sergio Amaury Ponce (Omar Arellano 80′)
18 Xavier Báez (Ramón Morales 89′)
99 Omar Bravo (Marco Fabián 69′)
14 Javier Hernández
DT Raúl Arias

First things first. Chivas did not create many chances. That’s how great it was.

Santos on the other hand had plenty of opportunities to score over and over again. Even Carlos Ochoa, who couldn’t score while at Chivas, had a decent opportunity.

The defense wasn’t great either. There were many silly tackles, and in the end one of those sent off Aaron Galindo.

The defense was really all over the place, and it was horrible. Honestly, a truly boring game. But is this what we should get accustomed to under Raul Arias? The past games have been pointing the way to ‘yes’.

Worrying is that Chivas plays America on Sunday. ‘El Clasico’…dun dun dun. America has clearly improved this season and it’ll be tough to beat them, especially at the Azteca Stadium. Although in recent times Chivas have had the upper hand in the games it will still prove difficult. They did have a difficult time against Puebla, but then again these games are a little different.

Just don’t play Johnny Magallon again…he always gets injured in those games.