All By Myself……

By: Andrea | May 2nd, 2009

Another game, another draw. They’re not making it easier to qualify for the Liguilla are they?

Chivas drew 0-0 against Puebla in front of cardboard cutouts, and prerecorded fans.

Guadalajara

1 Luis Michel
3 Aarón Galindo (YC 48′)
4 Héctor Reynoso
20 Édgar Mejía (Marco Fabián 46′)
5 Patricio Araujo
17 Sergio Amaury Ponce (RC66′)
11 Ramón Morales
7 Gonzalo Pineda
9 Omar Arellano (Xavier Báez 67′)(YC 76′)
10 Alberto Medina
14 Javier Hernández (Jesús Padilla 78′)
DT Francisco Ramírez

Puebla

1 Jorge Villalpando
3 Alejandro Acosta
5 Álvaro Ortiz
14 Luis Noriega
17 Walter Vilchez
20 Duilio Davino (RC 66′)
22 Carlos Arenas (Ramón Nuñez 54′)
24 Sergio Pérez
20 Felipe de Jesús Ayala
9 Daniel Osorno (Rodrigo Salinas 80′)
13 Álvaro González
DT José Luis Sánchez

The game got off to a slow start. It wasn’t until the 28th that Ponce had a chance, but he blew his chance and sent it into the stands.

Puebla had the best luck of the night as they hit the post for the first time in the 31st minute as Perez had made his way through the defense.

In the 37th it was Puebla once more as Gonzalez managed to get rid of the Chivas defense and came up against Michel. Michel kept his cool and blocked the shot that would have made it 1-0.

After all those minutes it wasn’t until the 40th that Chivas had a good chance once more. Chicharo sent a shot in for Medina who almost had it, but Puebla’s Mendoza got a foot on the ball and sent it to hit the post.

Coming back for the second half in the 49th Arellano came close. Acosta managed to help out his keeper, but almost gave away and own goal.

Puebla had another good opportunity in the 61st when the team took advantage of having Michel off his line. The ball went in behind him and hit the crossbar, but didn’t go over the line.

Ponce came close in the 63rd from a freekick, but Villalpando who was excellent all afternoon, managed to save.

Seconds later a Puebla player went down and the ball was kicked out of play. Puebla expected the ball to be played back according to fair play, but Ponce took advantage of the situation and instead sent into a cross that caught Puebla off guard. Davino went up to Ponce and the players had a few chest bumps. Both were sent off as ‘Chicidracula’ was having no nonsense.

Chivas came close again in the 91st with Padilla, but Villalpando managed to deny Chivas a goal, and the game ended 0-0.

A boring game over all. I honestly expected Chivas to come out and do more in response to all the crap that’s been going on with the Copa Libertadores. Guess not.

The next game is against Indios on May 10th where we’ll look to qualify for the Liguilla.